Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:44:36 pm
Yes, it's another monumental wall of authentic wingnut gibberish, brought to you by half-governor Sarah Palin! This time I decided it makes much more sense to look at this as sort of impressionistic free verse. So imagine Sarah in a smoky hipster poetry slam, intoning these words with her usual ...

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:56:47 pm
This is interesting; apparently the Brian Williams story may not be the clear-cut case of lying it's been made out to be: Helicopter Pilot: Actually, Yes, Brian Williams' Chopper Did Take Fire in 2003. Krell appeared to back up at least some of what Williams has said during repeated tellings ...

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:10:22 am
Right wing media are already taking President Obama's comments at this morning's prayer breakfast out of context in order to play into the hateful attack that our President is a terrorist sympathizer who hates Christians. Hot Air accused the President of comparing Christianity to ISIS: Drudge went with the single out ...

Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:02:19 pm
Tonight we're getting news of a fascinating statement from Twitter's CEO: 'We Suck at Dealing With Abuse'. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is taking personal responsibility for his platform's chronic problems with harassment and abuse, telling employees that he is embarrassed for the company's failures and would soon be taking stronger ...

Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:13:37 pm
YouTube But come on, folks, give Brian Williams a break. Who among us hasn't occasionally forgotten we didn't actually storm the beach at Normandy on D-Day? NBC's Brian Williams Recants Iraq Story After Soldiers Protest. WASHINGTON -- NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter ...

Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:58:32 pm
You may have heard that loony right wing creationist neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson came out yesterday with a pretty strong statement in support of vaccinations. Well, that was yesterday, and yesterday's gone. Today Carson has gotten his xenophobic marching orders, and he's blaming the measles outbreak on immigrants. "These are things ...

Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:00:22 am
I hang around libertarians more often than you might guess. Some of them are even nice! But they're rare. Mostly I hang around libertarians to better understand how political intuition can go so far off the rails for some things. Found this on Google Images, turns out it was from a ...

Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:30:22 pm
Death and The Anti-Vaxxer This is one blog post I've held off writing because it angers me beyond bearing, and scares me to death. rawstory.com 15 years ago, Andrew Wakefield, then a doctor, presented a paper to the famous medical journal The Lancet. In it he claimed there was a link between autism ...

Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:45:16 am
A Dallas Morning News editorial on that absolutely disgraceful display of anti-Muslim hatred at the Texas Capitol pulls no punches: Editorial: Capitol Spectacle Brings Shame on Texas. It was Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin, an annual event for visitors of that faith to visit the seat of state government, ...

Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:26:39 pm
On January 26th, New York Times columnist Charles Blow posted an op-ed entitled Library Visit, Then Held at Gunpoint, where he wrote about his son being detained at gunpoint by a Yale University police officer. Right wing bloggers are certain they have "debunked" this story because Blow did not ...

Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:47:45 pm
YouTube Right wing loons are always demanding that Muslims renounce terrorism and show their loyalty to the United States. And this is what happens when they do. Texas Muslim Capitol Day, which began in 2003, is organized by the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and brings members of Muslim ...

Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:41:46 pm
In a followup to the American Family Association's "repudiation" of raving hate-monger Bryan Fischer, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports that they received a letter from the AFA trying to distance themselves from Fischer's racist and anti-gay statements. The SPLC isn't buying it, and neither should anyone else. The AFA is ...

Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:17:52 pm
SoundCloud According to GOP Texas Rep. Louie "Terror Babies" Gohmert, the Christian God is going to punish America because Obama isn't sucking up to Benjamin Netanyahu. This is your right wing, America.

Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:37:30 pm
I'm thinking back to all the climate trolls who used to throw this guy in my face when arguing with them... YouTube Richard Muller founded the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project after declaring himself skeptical about climate change. He was funded in part by the Koch Brothers. He found out what ...

Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:39:13 pm
Image via Shutterstock Every once in a while I come up with a bit of code that might be useful to other programmers, and here's one of those bits -- a regular expression that extracts the ASIN product code from almost any Amazon product URL, including URLs from non-US Amazon stores. ...

Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 7:43:25 pm
Here it is, folks -- the hit piece on Dana Loesch Chuck C. Johnson has been threatening to post all day; he finally worked up the guts to go through with it: BUSTED: The Real Dana Loesch: A Hypocrite and a Fraud Lying About Andrew Breitbart and Me. Hilariously, this whole ...

Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:01:14 pm
MSNBC Creationist Gov. Booby Jindal is hosting a prayer rally in Louisiana today, co-sponsored by the homophobic hate group known as the American Family Association. Yes, that's loony Bryan Fischer's gang of religious right wackos. Jindal is trying to stake out a position as the most fanatical far right Christian in ...

Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 6:55:04 pm
Tonight's Sarah Palin moment features Caribou Barbie obviously approving of a wingnut sign that puts target signs in the Os of Michael Moore's name. I'm not Moore's biggest fan, but hey -- shouldn't Sarah be careful about stuff like this with her blood-stained history of using target signs for political incitement? Related: Arizona ...

Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 12:11:45 pm
Barrett Brown, who occasionally posted in our LGF Pages section a few years ago, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for transmitting threats, being an accessory to hacking charges, and interfering with a search warrant. There's already an outcry against this from the libertarian "hacktivist" community, who are trying ...

Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:21:38 am
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal just keeps proving over and over that the Republican Party really is the "stupid party," going all the way to London to spew discredited far right talking points about nonexistent "no-go zones" in Muslim areas that even Fox News had to retract: Jindal Stuck After Spreading Discredited ...

Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:30:31 am
You may recall this comparison photo that made the rounds on social media last year, showing a Tea Party gun lover named Holly Fisher next to her jihadi counterpart. Flag? Check. Holy book? Check. Semi-automatic rifle? Check. Bottom feeder and noted misogynist stalker Chuck C. Johnson has a BREAKING EXCLUSIVE story ...

Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 6:01:53 pm
Global temperature time series: land and ocean components.From 2014 Global Report Supplemental Information. We have big news on the climate change front today from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and it's not bad -- it's terrible: 2014 Earth's warmest year on record; December 2014 record warm; Global oceans also record ...

Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:17:50 pm
Well, the Republican Party has chosen the person they think most represents their party to give the State of the Union response, and it's hog-castrating Tea Party extremist Joni Ernst. Because nothing says rebranding like a loon who ran on the slogan "Make 'em squeal!" At this point anyone who follows politics ...

Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:42:46 pm
Senate Democrats led by Bernie Sanders have proposed a measure designed to make Republicans go on the record as climate change deniers: Senate to Vote on Whether Climate Change Is Happening. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he will allow the Senate to vote on an amendment asking ...

Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:11:08 am
As American media goes into all-out concern troll mode because President Obama didn't join other world leaders at the demonstration in Paris, it should be pointed out that those world leaders weren't actually at the demonstration either. They were in a separate isolated area, under heavy security. This was a staged ...