A group called “Project Prevention” is in the news for its tactic of offering $300 payments to “drug addicts” to submit to sterilization or long-term birth control because . . . um, it’s not clear except, you know, “those people” obviously ought to be sterilized. According to the woman who dreamed up this charming scheme, [...]
Archive for the ‘Conservative Bullshit Debunked’ Category
Class Cleansing
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Health, How Capitalism Will Ruin You, News & Current Events on May 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Oh, Now It’s a Problem
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, General, How Capitalism Will Ruin You, Legal Issues, News & Current Events, Politics, The WSJ's Literary Offenses on May 3, 2012 | 5 Comments »
The Wall Street Journal and Jonathan Adler are all het up about the unprecedented, nefarious tactic suddenly invented by liberals: secondary boycotts. WSJ waxes teary-eyed over all those poor corporations missing out on some tiny fraction of potential profits simply because they’re funding anti-democratic legislation, reactionary politicians, environmental disaster, slaveringly vicious fascist radio freaks, or [...]
My Daddy Can Marry and Abandon More Wives than Your Daddy
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Doggie Bloggin', General, Media, News & Current Events, Pets, Politics, Religion on April 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
So there’s been a lot of back-and-forth shot trading between the Romney and Obama camps lately. Some of it is hilarious. (“Romney strapped a dog to a car!” “Well Obama ate one!” “Romney’s grandfather was a polygamist!” “Well so was Obama’s father!“) The right wing seems to think these parallels are especially embarrassing to Obama. [...]
Hell, No
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on October 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I picked up Penn Jillette’s new book God, No!, yesterday, and am already most of the way through it. It’s pitched as an atheist’s version of the “Ten Commandments”. (This apparently was prompted by an exchange Penn had with Glenn Beck that resulted in Penn dashing off his own version of the Ten Commandments and [...]
Somebody Go Coddle the Children – They’re Making Noise Again
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Education, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Race, Things That Suck, Uncategorized on September 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Children flinging poo to get attention: dipshit College Republicans (there is no other kind) at UC Berkeley have been loudly touting their “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” – a racist provocation that has been standard fare for campus right-wing groups for 10 years or more. The gag is simple: they offer cupcakes for sale with prices [...]
. . . You Won’t Go Back
Posted in Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Education, Gender Issues, General, Legal Issues, Marriage Equality, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Race, Religion, Science on September 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The onward march of progress: Gallup reports today that overall US public approval of interracial marriage stands at an all-time high of 85% – up from 4% barely 50 years ago. What’s really striking is the almost linear trendline: Predictably, it slows during Republican administrations, and jumped dramatically during the Clinton years, but overall that’s [...]
The Wingnut Looking-Glass
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck on August 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Paul Krugman has a good column up, noting that this year’s crop of GOP candidates is even crazier than usual – all of them, with the exception of doomed atavistic sane Republican John Huntsman, are creationist, anti-choice, and climate-change denialists. All of them, that is, make medical and scientific decisions on the basis of religion, [...]
Christianity in Action: Asshole Pastor Wants to Register Atheists Like Sex Offenders
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Flame Bait, General, Politics, Religion, Things That Suck on August 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Running true to a very tedious and familiar form, some nutcase makes waves to prove how Christian he is by proving how crazy he is: Brothers and Sisters , I have been seriously considering forming a ( Christian ) grassroots type of organization to be named “The Christian National Registry of Atheists” or something similar [...]
Conservatism in a Wingnutshell
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, Economics, General, News & Current Events, Politics, Things That Suck on July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It hardly needs to be pointed out, but here’s yet more proof that the budget and debt debate is, for conservatives, nothing but political grandstanding to score points. The economic fate of the nation is nothing to them but a tool for the betterment of the Republican party. Here’s William Kristol – the “serious” conservative [...]
Surrender to the Center . . . Online
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics on July 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Thomas Friedman goes full-stupid again in today’s column. He starts by pointing out, rightly, that the Republican party is captive to idiotic extremists and has abandoned any notion of responsible exercise of power: DID I mention that I’ve signed a pledge — just like those Republican congressmen who have signed written promises to different political [...]