Dec 18, 2012
Today's Toon
Dear Obama Haters
I'm not saying you're all the same as this bunch of spit-cup deep-fried slop-faced apes, but I think you should know about your fellow travelers.
via Wonkette
Dec 17, 2012
Better Gun Laws Now
A gunman puts a bullet in the brain of a Democratic congressman, Gabrielle Giffords, and nothing changes. A madman murders young people in a crowded theater in Aurora, Colorado, and nothing changes. Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and Christmas shoppers in Portland, Oregon become casualties and nothing happens. Our children are now being slaughtered as a result of a political calculation.Tim Dickenson at Rolling Stone
Mike Bloomberg at Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Today's Toon
And when weaponized anthrax is outlawed, only outlaws will have weaponized anthrax. --John Fugelsang
Dec 15, 2012
Godly(ish) Tunes
Of course, the inevitable crap immediately showed up on Facebook about how assholes shoot kids at school because the schools have told God to get out. Here's the thing: if your all-powerful god can be kept out of anywhere just because some minor functionary on some random local board says so, then that is one weak shit god ya got there, Sparky.
And if your all-loving and all-merciful god turns his back as innocent people are being slaughtered - and while you shrug and rationalize it all as "god's will" - then you and your god can both go fuck yourselves.
The Shooting(s)
We have a gun problem. And since the problem is all about guns, the solution has to be all about guns as well. So here's the logical approach to solving it.
I'm calling on all you gun owners to carry your guns wherever you go, and when you see someone who has a gun, I want you to shoot him. Shoot anybody you see who has a gun.
There's bound to be some collateral damage, but once the gun freaks are all busy shooting each other, maybe they'll leave everybody else the fuck alone.
And while we're at it, the Sate Department should add the NRA to its list of Terrorist Organizations.
I'm calling on all you gun owners to carry your guns wherever you go, and when you see someone who has a gun, I want you to shoot him. Shoot anybody you see who has a gun.
There's bound to be some collateral damage, but once the gun freaks are all busy shooting each other, maybe they'll leave everybody else the fuck alone.
And while we're at it, the Sate Department should add the NRA to its list of Terrorist Organizations.
Dec 14, 2012
Dec 13, 2012
The Krugman Speaks
Bleeding Europe
Europe has surprised me with its political resilience — the willingness of debtor nations to endure seemingly endless pain, the ability of the ECB to do just enough, at the very last minute, to calm markets when the financial situation seems ready to explode. But the economics of austerity have played out exactly according to script — the Keynesian script, that is, not the austerian script. Again and again, “responsible” technocrats induce their nations to accept the bitter austerity medicine; again and again, they fail to deliver results. The latest case in point is Italy, where Mario Monti — a good guy, deeply sincere — is leaving early, ultimately because his policies are delivering Italy into depression. (And yes, for the record, this means that Italy won’t get the full Monti.)
So what’s the answer? Stay the course, say the Eurocrats. It will work any day now — the confidence fairy is coming!
Kevin O’Rourke has it right: Europe has become the continent where good times are always just around the corner.
It really is like medieval medicine, where you bled patients to treat their ailments, and when the bleeding made them sicker, you bled them even more.
Dec 12, 2012
Another Day, Another Shooting
via LA Times:
A masked gunman stormed into a crowded Portland, Ore.-area mall Tuesday, shouting, "I am the shooter!" and opened fire, killing two people and seriously injuring a third before killing himself, authorities and a witness said.
Dec 11, 2012
Pulling Back
You may have noticed I haven't been terribly prolific on this thing lately, and I think it's because I'm feeling a little burned out. So I'm gonna take a coupla steps back and just chill a bit.
I'll still put up some pictures and whatever weird shit that floats by - hoping to recharge and get back to it after Christmas.
In the meantime, don't stop putting pressure on the bozos in Washington to stop fuckin' around and start doing some right things for us.
See y'all around.
I'll still put up some pictures and whatever weird shit that floats by - hoping to recharge and get back to it after Christmas.
In the meantime, don't stop putting pressure on the bozos in Washington to stop fuckin' around and start doing some right things for us.
See y'all around.
Dec 10, 2012
Dec 8, 2012
Suicide By Freedom
Charlie Pierce is turning into a regular go-to guy:
I once again call on all those "millions of responsible gun owners" out there that I keep hearing about every time there's a gun atrocity in the news, and we are told that, in response, we are not supposed to even, maybe, consider, possibly, talking a little about, hypothetically, adjusting both our laws and our attitudes toward firearms in order to make the populace more murderous, lest we find ourselves slandering these "millions of responsible gun owners."
Here's my request. Rid yourself of Wayne LaPierre as a national spokesman.Gun owners are always reacting to calls for Gun Regulation by saying they have the right to protect themselves, but what about the rest of us? As a society though, do we not have the right to protect ourselves from them?
Just Wonderin'
The Fiscal Cliff is supposed to be this terrible horrible thing that threatens everything from the lives of our grandparents and/or our grandchildren, and our neighbors and all of our house pets, and basically the very fiber of our all-American being. It's the worst thing that could ever happen ever.
And the reason it's so awful is that is cuts way back on both revenues and on spending, which somehow coincides almost perfectly with the opposing viewpoints of Dems vs Repubs. I guess that in itself isn't particularly hard to see, but what exactly is it that "going over The Fiscal Cliff" actually means? What overarching policy does it represent?
Can you say "austerity"? I knew you could.
So we have one party screaming (as usual) about the need to rein in the gubmint, and impose some real limits on spending - a little austerity, if you will - at the same time it's warning us that we better make a deal that favors their ideology cuz we really don't wanna fuck up the economy with all that austerity stuff.
When do we get some real leaders who aren't constantly taking hostages and trying to terrorize us into doing things that ultimately fuck us over?
And the reason it's so awful is that is cuts way back on both revenues and on spending, which somehow coincides almost perfectly with the opposing viewpoints of Dems vs Repubs. I guess that in itself isn't particularly hard to see, but what exactly is it that "going over The Fiscal Cliff" actually means? What overarching policy does it represent?
Can you say "austerity"? I knew you could.
So we have one party screaming (as usual) about the need to rein in the gubmint, and impose some real limits on spending - a little austerity, if you will - at the same time it's warning us that we better make a deal that favors their ideology cuz we really don't wanna fuck up the economy with all that austerity stuff.
When do we get some real leaders who aren't constantly taking hostages and trying to terrorize us into doing things that ultimately fuck us over?
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