Wednesday, August 29, 2012

A white man sang a full complement of R&B songs to a nearly all-white audience of delegates. (Thank you, G.E. Smith Band.) Old people danced comically to the strains of 3 Doors Down

lies damn lies , statistics

Tuesday, August 28, 2012


6 Right-Wing Zealots and the Crazy Ideas Behind the Most Outrageous Republican Platform Ever     

and down the rabbit hole we go

Monday, August 27, 2012

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In the study, Liu and Ditto report, conservatives tilted their views of the facts to favor their moral convictions more than liberals did,on every single issue. And that was true whether it was a topic that liberals oppose (the death penalty) or that conservatives oppose (embryonic stem cell research). “Conservatives are doing this to a larger degree across four different issues,” Liu explained in an interview. “Including two that are leaning to the liberal side, not the conservative side.”

pants on fire    Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)