Our vowel heavy states other than Hawaii and Ohio

Iowa - Behold our cynicism!

Alaska: There's no right-wing violence!

And New York (not all that vowel-heavy, but what the hell): Carl Kruger is a Democratic state senator from Brooklyn. His vote against gay marriage last year was crucial in stopping the measure in New York. Funny thing: He lives with his gay lover, who's the bagman in their bribery racket.

I have to admit

By this point, if Bush was President, I'd be going fucking nuts.

And I still kind of am, what is happening to Bradley Manning is heinous.

This can't be good

For the nuclear power industry or possibly anyone.

Shortly after the 8.9 magnitude earthquake on Friday that shook Japan and generated tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean, reports emerged of damage at one of Japan’s nuclear power plants. On Saturday, Japanese authorities began evacuating residents nearby the Fukushima nuclear power plant due to the release of radioactive elements into the environment, signs of a possible meltdown at one of the reactors.

As officials worked to repair damage Saturday afternoon, an explosion occurred at the nuclear power plant, damaging one of the buildings.

Attaturk's Law!

Perhaps someone else already coined this, but if not, I'll claim it for my pseudonym.

Looking at the video of Japan and seeing people standing around on bridges and buildings as the tsunami rushes by them I realize this.

The better the warning system of a nation, the more idiots will rush out into danger hoping to capture the event for YouTube or their Facebook accounts.

In the midwest we call this the Tornado Warning Effect.

Relationship Status: Dead...but single.

"He'll have to explain his positions, especially those on top of women who were not his wife"

Brilliant from Colbert:

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This just in

Apparently being an attempted perpetrator of dildo assault (now follow our twitter!) is not enough to disqualify you as a valid source of right-wing news.

Wow

Gigantic earthquake and Tsunami in Japan (and spreading out over the Pacific), video is amazing...and frightening.



A series of aftershocks in Japan...the biggest one 8.9, just had a 6.4 aftershock...a series about that bad. That's nearly as big as the off Thailand in 2004 (a 9.1).

Ayn Rand was a total rimmer

Just exactly what "toilet freedom" does he want?

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is upset that the federal government has squelched his right to own a super-toilet, leaving him with less freedom than women, who are still allowed to have abortions.

Deep Right Wing Thought

From the intersection of Orwell & Ives:

By Mark Krikorian

Mark: Those Eva Braun pictures reminded me of Qaddafi’s “voluptuous blond,” both of whom lead me to wonder — why can’t dictators find better-looking mistresses? Hitler and Khadafy are (were) absolute rulers over millions of subjects, and these girls are the best they can do? It’s not like either woman was ugly, but with all that money and power, you’d think these goons could find a super-model willing to be their “nurse.”

In my whiniest Seinfeldian:

"What's the deal with these dictators and their not very attractive mistresses?

"Hooray, there's still hope for me and Mitt!!!!"

Coming soon to the Purgatory Post and Penny Saver

Spectral David Broder will provide his analysis of current events...or perhaps just guest star on an AMC Show.

Whites are slated to become a minority by 2050

I predict by 2055, Republicans in Congress will finally begin calling for hearings looking into white extremism and white anti-Americanism.

Leading the call will be Chattahoochee River Palin, daughter of Bristol Palin's child via premarital -- but officially sanctified -- sex with Lynn Swann III during the 2028 Fox News Republican National Convention sponsored by Wasabi & Chive flavored Tostitos.

But what about the menace of angry middle-school teachers aligned with known socialist-terrorist-street organizer, Osama bin Andy Stern?!!

Move along now, nothing to see here:

DNA evidence and purchases of electronic components led investigators to the former Fort Lewis soldier accused of planting a rat poison-laced bomb along the route of Spokane's Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, according to a source familiar with the investigation.

Kevin William Harpham, who reportedly has links to a neo-Nazi group, was arrested by FBI agents and local law enforcement Wednesday morning at his home near Addy, a community of about 1,400 people roughly 55 miles northwest of Spokane.

Still apparently no reason to think of the right-wing as being suppliers of terrorists.

Now, on to your Peter King jihad against alleged jihadis that surround you in his mind.

Proud moment for me, I have to tell you...

I will not rest until we are twitter-followed by every manufacturer of non-explicit adult sexual appliances!

Just sayin'

Still no release of minutes of Cheney's Energy Task-force meetings.

And for those of you who are fans of blog-minutiae jokes and controversies long-forgotten except when trotted out for ad hominem dismissals (and really, who isn't besides everyone?) as well as being offended (actually, about everyone) ...Ladies and Gentlemen, Joe Lieberman!*


*(yes, its a triple-axle (axis?) of bad taste!)

Frightening Thought

Newt Gingrich is the way he is because the "way" he is causes the pages of his copy of the Constitution's pages to stick together.

If I "Recall" it is time to Party

I guess the most effective parodies are the those that end up being true to life.


[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Shallow Thought

This must be just a little like how Vaughn Meader felt.

He'll be writing bipartisan columns about Beelzebub by Breakfast

RIP Mr. Broder where there will be ever-running marathons of 'Matlock'.

I don't know whether that is heaven or hell to be honest.

Respects to his family, and not to be be too self-centered, but there goes half my act!

That is nine more than here

How much justice can these people a-fjord?*

Police have arrested nine people in London and Iceland on suspicion of fraud in connection with the collapse of Iceland's Kaupthing bank during the global financial crisis in 2008.

*Apologize in advance.

Boys

Updated below.

As a general rule, you want to avoid rape, but you especially want to avoid rape in (a) Texas and/or (b) anywhere in the vicinity of either (i) Sheila Harrison and/or (ii) the author of this New York Times piece, James C. McKinley Jr.. Why? Well, because these people have awfully strange ideas about what really matters when it comes to rape, in this case of an eleven-year-old child:

“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.”

Ah yes, the "boys". What torment they will suffer! Ms. Harrison sounds as though she'd be right at home in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

Residents in the neighborhood where the abandoned trailer stands — known as the Quarters — said the victim had been visiting various friends there for months. They said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s. She would hang out with teenage boys at a playground, some said.

“Where was her mother? What was her mother thinking?” said Ms. Harrison, one of a handful of neighbors who would speak on the record. “How can you have an 11-year-old child missing down in the Quarters?”

Jesus! It's pretty early in the morning to be this disgusted with your fellow man, but there you have it.

Update: Tell the NYT what you think about their victim-blaming story.