Why Getting Rid of the Filibuster is a Bad Idea

February 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Politics |

Are they going to get fooled again?

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Political Climatology

February 8th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Politics, Science |

It’s probably not good for my intellectual well-being, but I subscribe to a couple of right-wing mailing lists just to keep track. Sometimes it’s difficult, like this weekend’s “Worldview Weekend” news. If you’re not familiar with them they’re conservative, “fundamentalist” Christian organization run by a guy who is a strict Biblical literalist, especially the parts about how awesome capitalism is.

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The Future of the Health Care Bill

January 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Politics |

I’m considering donating money to Harry Reid’s Republican challenger in Nevada. If the majority leader can’t lead, it’s time to find someone who can.

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Maybe If They Read It…

December 20th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Don’t ask why, but I’ve gotten myself on a couple of GOP e-mail lists. Sometimes it’s amusing to get the disinformation right from the horse’s mouth. Today’s nonsense concerns the long-departed prospect for government-run healthcare.

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Wait A Minute

December 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Every now and again I get the opportunity to read The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page (a.k.a., The Funny Pages), where one can almost always find wonderful nuggets of disinformation and illogic. Here’s today’s, from “The Audacity of Debt,” in which the author compares the recent increases in the U.S. budget deficit to those wrought [...]

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Al Franken (D-Reality)

December 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Senator Al lays into the purveyors of fiction.

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Tacky Post-Election Behavior

November 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

From the two Republican candidates for Township Committee here in Maplewood.
But there were no concession speeches from Albini and Perez when the two returned to Les Saisons Bed & Breakfast after watching the results come in at Town Hall.
Said Bob Perez: “I offer no congratulations to our opponents who did not even have [...]

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Election Day

November 3rd, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

It’s time to vote in New Jersey and New York. Here are the official endorsements from tom-mcgee.com’s editorial board.

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When You Don’t Have The Facts…

October 10th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

…just make them up!

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I Wonder What They’ll Do To The Beatitudes?

October 6th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

This would be a good time for a semi-blasphemous profanity, but I’ll restrain myself. The latest project of the most wacked-out faction of the conservative movement is to re-translate the Bible because it’s too liberal the way it is now. I’m looking at you, King James.

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The New Guy On The Left

October 2nd, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Congressman Alan Grayson from Florida has the Republicans shrieking like a bunch of 9-year-olds at a Halloween haunted house. Finally, a Democrat with guts.

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I Have A Meme

September 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

There’s a new nuttiness abroad in the land.

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