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Rants on Government & Politics
- Chalk One Up for the Non-Asshats
2009.03.10 (Tue) 00:15
Okay, this one was a given:
President Obama has signed an ex [»]
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- How to Prevent SkyNet from Taking Over the World (Just Sue It)
2009.03.05 (Thu) 19:09
Kindle is a pretty is a pretty [»]
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- NCCAM Improperly Inflates CAM Usage in Survey
2009.01.26 (Mon) 14:47
Take a look at the leading sentence of this a [»]
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- The End of an Error
2009.01.20 (Tue) 15:58
A little over four years ago, we launched the Two Percent Company. We did so in order to confront a host of disturbing trends that seemed — to us, anyway — to be sweeping like a wave of ra [»]
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- Fuck the Big Three
2008.11.19 (Wed) 13:32
Why...
...the fuck...
...should we even be considering...
... [»]
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- Suffragin' Succotash
2008.11.03 (Mon) 17:14
Vote. Do it. If you're eligible to vote, there's no reason not to.
It's no big mystery who we'll be voting for. Anyone who reads four paragraphs on our site could take a wild guess and hit the mark. [»]
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- Politics Looks For Athletic Shoe Endorsements
2008.09.02 (Tue) 16:03
You fucking idiots.
So a bunch of completely deluded Democrats, upset that their favorite Democratic nominee — Capit [»]
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- How to Precisely Line Up Your Conclusions With Your Expectations
2008.04.17 (Thu) 11:42
It's simple, really: just assume whatever you want to be true, and you've got your conclus [»]
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- Another Gris Gris Bites the Dust
2008.01.23 (Wed) 21:50
We're the subject of lots of idiotic verbal attacks. Many of them amount to little more than "you guys suck!" — these lame, drive-by insults, left by people who lack the ability to counter our a [»]
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- Don't Bogart the Constitution, Dude
2007.06.28 (Thu) 16:59
Joseph Frederick held up a banner in Juneau, Alaska, back in 2002. The banner read: Bong Hits 4 Jesus. Personally, we feel that Jesus himself would probably endorse this statement...if he could [»]
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- Sir Salman Sparks Seriously Stupid Statements
2007.06.23 (Sat) 16:15
If the Post can pull that alliteration crap in headline after headline, we can throw one up on occasion. And, frankly, a situation this incredibly fucking ridiculous deserves a light and airy h [»]
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- Say It Ain't So, Wolfie!
2007.05.20 (Sun) 08:40
In honor of Paul Wolfowitz being forced out as president of the W [»]
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- Duck and Cover
2007.02.24 (Sat) 11:27
We admit it — we find neo-con, er, "humor" to be so odd that it actually is funny to us, though always in a way that was never intended by the "comedian" in question. Sometimes we like to [»]
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- America's Most Hated
2007.02.21 (Wed) 10:21
What's worse in the minds of "typical" Americans than a half-black, half-Hispanic, seventy-two-year-old Jewish woman who's in her third marriage to her Mormon lesbian lover? What's worse in the minds of "typical" Americans than a half-black, half-Hispanic, seventy-two-year-old Jewish woman who's in her third marriage to her Mormon lesbian lover? [»]
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- In Which a Reader Wishes Third Degree Genital Burns On Us
2007.01.05 (Fri) 23:33
A few weeks back, our friend Steve was doing a little light cooking. He melted some butter in a pot, but then got distracted by something, and ended up scorching the butter. He set it aside, and after [»]
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- Next Step: Fatties Will Be Prosecuted
2006.12.06 (Wed) 17:36
It isn't so far-fetched — it's not such [»]
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- The State of the Union, According to Us
2006.11.19 (Sun) 21:48
Today, November 19th 2006, marks the second anniversary of the Two Percent Company. It hardly seems like we've gone through two years of anger, frustration, and disbelief at the utter insanity of the [»]
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- Par For (Staying) The Course
2006.11.19 (Sun) 00:15
Thanks to alert reader Bagheera, we were directed to Friday's CNN story on Bush's next po [»]
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- Hypocritical Advice is the Best...Oh, Skip it
2006.11.10 (Fri) 14:32
This blows us away. In Massachusetts, the only state in which same-sex marriage is legal, a contingent of homophobic asshats has gathered up 170,000 signatures aimed at getting the issue put on the ba [»]
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- Election Day Recap
2006.11.08 (Wed) 16:04
As we've said many times before, we don't love the Democrats, but we openly admit that we supported them through this past election — if only to get the Republican asshats out of power. So, with [»]
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- Go Vote*
2006.11.07 (Tue) 12:05
[* Unless you're an idiot. Then please stay home and just pray for your candidates to win. We're sure that will work out just as well for you.]
Of course, to our overseas readers, feel [»]
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- Brothers Engage in Nude Fondling, Right?
2006.10.25 (Wed) 10:39
You know, we've managed to avoid saying anything about this whole Foley/Page/Priest scandal that's all the rage in the mainstream media, and we've been pretty proud of that fact. But when we read a fe [»]
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- Or Did They Not Mean It This Way...?
2006.10.11 (Wed) 22:32
On the way to lunch today, it occurred to us that, if a Flag Protection Amendment [»]
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- Plain and Simple
2006.10.02 (Mon) 00:38
Les Jenkins thoughtfully thoughtfully [»]
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- Bill Kills Shill
2006.09.25 (Mon) 11:03
Via Via [»]
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- Dubya Serves Up Some Unintentional Irony
2006.09.06 (Wed) 11:24
Mental midget and US President George W. Bus [»]
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- Illegal Warrantless Wiretapping Deemed Illegal
2006.08.18 (Fri) 14:36
Can we get a "Duh!" on that one, brothers and sisters?
A Federal District Court Judge Can we get a "Duh!" on that one, brothers and sisters?
A Federal District Court Judge [»]
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- Is This the Best Argument You Can Muster?
2006.08.09 (Wed) 23:44
You may recall, not that long ago, that the most recent push to criminalize "flag desec [»]
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- The Talking Monkey
2006.07.19 (Wed) 15:59
Does it bother anyone else that George W. Bush has absolutely no clue how to behave in international diplomatic circumstances? Or even, more simply, how to behave as an adult?
Yes, he ?
Yes, he [»]
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- What's In A Name?
2006.07.12 (Wed) 14:22
From an article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
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- Civil Liberties Win...Barely
2006.06.30 (Fri) 13:25
You know, we appreciate the fact that the proposed amendment to criminalize the physi [»]
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- Could You Be Slightly More Corrupt?
2006.06.21 (Wed) 10:58
Oy and and [»]
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- Separation Issues Still Matter
2006.06.15 (Thu) 22:38
Judicial thorn and outspoken atheist "Rev. Dr." Michael Newdow's most recent bid to get rid of government-sanctioned declarations of religious faith — in this case, his call for the removal of t [»]
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- South Dakota Abortion Ban Delayed
2006.06.08 (Thu) 18:57
The batshit insane abortion ban, , [»]
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- Answer to Orrin Hatch: Duh!
2006.06.07 (Wed) 15:48
The latest in an ongoing (and certainly not over) Republican push to amend the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage The latest in an ongoing (and certainly not over) Republican push to amend the Constitution to prohibit gay marriage [»]
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- The Fodder of Our Country (Boxjam's Alternate Reality)
2006.06.07 (Wed) 13:17
Speaking of cartoons [Oh...were we? —Ed.] — webcomic author Boxjam occa [»]
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- Why Religion Can't Get Into Our Schools
2006.06.06 (Tue) 16:42
They can't get past the admissions t [»]
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- Bigotry Always Outs
2006.06.04 (Sun) 13:07
Ed Brayton has a post up on the sudden renewe [»]
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- Looks Like the Bull is Losing...
2006.05.06 (Sat) 19:46
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- Good News, Everybody
2006.04.04 (Tue) 16:23
Noted asshole Tom DeLay has announced that he will resign his position in the House of Representatives and not seek re-election. Noted asshole Tom DeLay has announced that he will resign his position in the House of Representatives and not seek re-election. [»]
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- The Annotated Ranter Strikes Again
2006.03.22 (Wed) 08:19
The Annotated Ranter is back, and this time the Ranter's sights are er is back, and this time the Ranter's sights are [»]
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- Ben Stein Got It Right...And Then Got It So Very, Very Wrong
2006.03.19 (Sun) 20:36
Slowly but surely, we're training our friends and family to check in with Snopes before forwarding us any of tho [»]
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- South Dakota's Bill Napoli Clinches "Asshat of the Year" Award
2006.03.13 (Mon) 16:23
Sure, it's only March, but it's hard to imagi [»]
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- South Dakota Sends a Hearty "Fuck You" to Women
2006.03.06 (Mon) 23:14
Well, it's official. South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds today signed House Bill 121 [»]
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- Majikthise on Fox News Radio
2006.02.26 (Sun) 15:40
On Friday night, Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise fame, was the guest of, er, "honor" on fame, was the guest of, er, "honor" on [»]
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- Career Interest Inventory
2006.02.17 (Fri) 18:24
In the spirit of those career interest questionnaires, here's an una [»]
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- Be Vewwy, Vewwy Quiet...
2006.02.14 (Tue) 21:45
...he's hunting cronies.
And here we thought he stuck to white collar crime. [»]
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- State of the Union: There's Nothing to See Here
2006.02.03 (Fri) 23:20
Enough folks have taken issue with what George W. said on Tuesday (or, more to the point, the lack thereof). (If you want read about the content, go check out Enough folks have taken issue with what George W. said on Tuesday (or, more to the point, the lack thereof). (If you want read about the content, go check out [»]
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- State of the Union: Graphical Cliffs Notes
2006.01.31 (Tue) 23:06
For the kids, who might not have understood everything our illustrious president was babbling on about — a translation: [»]
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- Dubya Has a Sense of Humor!
2006.01.28 (Sat) 02:11
Oh, wow. We never knew that Bush could joke about himself like this! We have to say, it's pretty cool of him, and we tip our hats to the man.
From an Oh, wow. We never knew that Bush could joke about himself like this! We have to say, it's pretty cool of him, and we tip our hats to the man.
From an [»]
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