Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 6:21:18 pm
When the right wing fever swamp started circulating the absurd lie that the Colorado shooter was a “left wing tranny,” I laughed at it. This ridiculous fake story started at the website of the Stupidest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, as so many bizarre counter-factual right wing stories do, ...

Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 2:59:59 pm
Planned Parenthood shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear being taken into custody, Nov. 28, 2015 Somehow I knew it wouldn't be long before this came out: Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Made Comment About 'No More Baby Parts': Sources. The day after a gunman killed three people and shot nine others at a ...

Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:32:05 am
Details about Robert Lewis Dear Jr., the suspect in yesterday's shootings at the Planned Parenthood office in Colorado Springs, are beginning to emerge, and it's already pretty clear where this is headed. Buzzfeed News spoke to one of Dear's neighbors and learned that Dear gave the neighbor anti-Obama pamphlets and said ...

Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:42:08 am
The Denver Post reports that a police officer has been injured in an active shooter situation at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs. At least one police officer has been injured in an ongoing active shooter situation at a Colorado Springs branch of Planned Parenthood Friday afternoon. Lt. Catherine Buckley, a Colorado ...

Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:06:29 am
Some interesting news from the investigation into the terrorist attacks in Paris: the Syrian passport found near one of the terrorists' bodies may have been planted in an attempt to stir up anti-immigrant hatred in Europe. “The single most intriguing fact is that the passport was there at all,” one ...

Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:30:48 am
Via Dave Weigel and Robert Costa at the Washington Post, here's the complete draft of the letter Republican candidates are considering sending to TV networks, with their questions/demands about the upcoming debates. None of the candidates have actually signed this yet, so it still could change. But it's an extraordinary, over ...

Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 5:18:38 pm
Vimeo Wow, new music from Joanna Newsom for the first time in five years, and it's magnificent. She's probably best known for her compositions on which she plays harp, but there's no harp on this song -- just an incredible arrangement of a very different sort of music. The title of the ...

Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:44:25 pm
Vimeo I can feel you in my Belly Credits: A film by: Julia Pott Production: Royal College of Art Sound Design: Joseph Tate Animation Assistance: Robin Bushell Eammon O'Neill Ben Cady Stephen Middleton Theo Nunn Voices: Olivia Gurney Randall Cornelius Clarke Joseph Tate Robert Blythe Laurence Weedy Supported by: Passion Pictures

Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:30:14 am
Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com Ben Carson, in tried and true right wing fashion, isn't backing down on his bigoted statements about Muslims. In fact, today he not only doubled down, he got even worse. Carson explicitly advocated a religious test for public office, saying whoever is elected president should be "sworn in ...

Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:18:01 pm
Cyberstalker Chuck C. Johnson is blabbing out of control to the Daily Caller's horrible Betsy Rothstein about Gawker's latest motions responding to his SLAPP lawsuit. Here's his egomaniacal rant; obviously his lawyer didn't tell him to keep his mouth shut about the case (like any competent lawyer would). "The Gawker ...

Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:46:41 pm
Today the National Abortion Foundation filed suit against the anti-choice fanatics behind the Orwellian "Center for Medical Progress," seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction to prevent them from releasing any video of NAF meetings. The lawsuit names CMP as a defendant as well as BioMax Procurement Services, the fake ...

Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 5:51:47 pm
Image via Shutterstock Sharona Coutts and Sofia Resnick of RH Reality Check have been investigating the far right fanatics behind the deceptive Planned Parenthood "sting" videos, and they've discovered some very interesting information. The operatives at the Orwellian "Center for Medical Progress" and their fake company "Biomax" may have violated a ...

Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 1:44:40 pm
Juli Hansen / Shutterstock.com As Donald Trump steals all the oxygen from the Republican presidential campaign, you can expect the other candidates to get more and more extreme to try to compete with Trump's xenophobic hate speech. For example, Mike Huckabee, the "aw shucks" theocrat; he gave an interview to Breitbart "News" ...

Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:12:44 am
http://www.bobcesca.com/podcast/072315 /BCS_072315.mp3 I'm so old I remember when Alex Jones was trying to cash in by exploiting left wing memes, but now he's obviously realized it's much easier to fleece the right. So now he eagerly promotes every conservative talking point as soon as it comes down from the noise machine; for ...

Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:43:24 am
As we pointed out a few days ago, Donald Trump dodged military service during the Vietnam War with a series of student and medical deferments, like the privileged sons of many wealthy people did. But that hasn't stopped him from saying horrible things like this, about Sen. John McCain: "He's not ...

Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:50:55 pm
YouTube Robert Jeffress is a frequent guest on Fox News, where they present him as a kindly avuncular Baptist pastor. But in reality, he's a totally insane religious fanatic preaching conspiratorial End Times hatred. Jeffress had some good news, though: The Supreme Court's decision and the ensuing rainbow-flag projection on the White ...

Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:03:08 pm
Here's one of those stories that makes you just say, "Good grief." The North Carolina branch of the KKK, who call themselves "The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan," has been granted a permit to hold a rally on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse on July ...

Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:36:21 am
Right wing bloggers are having a huge outrage party over the discovery of some old campaign buttons created by supporters of Hillary Clinton that feature a Confederate flag. Breitbart "News" hack Joel Pollak is a good example: HILLARY CLINTON CONFEDERATE FLAG MERCHANDISE SURFACES ON EBAY! In 2007, Hillary Clinton commented ...

Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:49:15 pm
In 2008, I wrote about the awful stealth creationist bill signed into law by Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, and predicted it would lead to a giant step backward for science education. It gives me no joy to report, via Zack Kopplin (who's doing an awesome job of bringing this awfulness to ...

Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:11:02 pm
Attack plotter Robert Doggart Here's where the ceaseless anti-Muslim incitement of people like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer and media outlets like Fox News and Breitbart "News" unsurprisingly leads: Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Plotting Attack on Muslims. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A man who ran for Congress last year in ...

Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:12:12 pm
YouTube The National Transportation Safety Board's Robert Sumwalt said today at a press conference that the engineer of the Amtrak train that derailed last night in Philadelphia applied the emergency braking system approximately 3 seconds before the crash. He also said that when the data recorder stopped working, the train was traveling ...

Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:56:10 pm
You will probably be aware that Kansas is among the reddest of red states. There are, however, exceptions to every rule. Lawrence is home to the large University of Kansas and is a significant liberal enclave in the state. Recently, the owner of a Lawrence furniture store ...

Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:49:58 am
You may recall that the two would-be mass murderers who attacked Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's "Draw Mohammed" event in Garland, Texas, were reportedly killed by a lone traffic officer armed only with a pistol. Well, that story wasn't true: Gunmen at Muhammad Cartoon Contest Were Killed by SWAT Team. The ...

Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:59:32 pm
48 hour rule applies here, we don't have real details on who or why, although we all probably want to speculate. At least two people were shot Sunday afternoon in the parking lot outside the Curtis Culwell Center, where the American Freedom Defense Initiative was hosting its inaugural Muhammad Cartoon ...

Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 12:31:36 pm
Our article about pseudo-journalist Chuck C. Johnson's "men's rights advocate," Jeremiah True (who was arrested on Thursday for sexual abuse of under-age girls at a rugby practice session) apparently got the Ginger Avenger quite upset, sending him into a multi-tweet tirade filled with insults and personal attacks. So, win! In the ...