Did right-wing hate blogs make the Norwegian psychopath kill all those people? No, of course not. But when violent crazy people have a “safe place” (the right-wing hate Web) to spout their vile hatred and violent fantasies alongside a bunch of other dingbat people who despise various ethnicities and cultures, the situation certainly isn’t helped. [...]
Nobody knows what’s really going on in Oslo or at the holiday camp island in Norway where a bombing and a shooting have left many people dead, but it’s always safe for American Idiots on the Internet to jump in with a suspect (“Muslims”) and a verdict (“guilty”) and a list of co-conspirators (“Obama and [...]
The happiest nations in the world are almost nothing like the United States, according to the business website 24/7 Wall Street. Does the average person have financial security, government-backed health care, quality education, a healthy natural environment and a sane work-life balance? Those are the world’s happy people, and you’ll find them in economically stable [...]
Virginia used to have a neat logo featuring a Roman goddess-warrior and her exposed nipple. Thanks to some Ashcroftesque re-branding, this perverted wardrobe malfunction exists no more. [Think Progress] Woah, Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein went to a decadent White House staff party! (Apparently all the babes wanted a picture of Ezra, while poor Matt [...]
Oh sure, it’s a big honor to get the Nobel Peace Prize, but the banquet and the deejay are just as lame as any affair involving old white rich people wearing suits. Here’s Barack and Michelle, America’s top dancers, enjoying whatever is going on here, probably at about three in the afternoon, which is nighttime [...]
Barack Obama has said a controversial “No, thank you” to the King of Norway’s very kind and very obligatory lunch invitation! Sometime before or after Obama’s hawky peace prize acceptance speech, everyone expected our President to feast upon Scandinavian pleasantries, possibly in a palace, with the King, like people did constantly in Medieval times. Who [...]
Did you hear that Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech was his clearest formulation of the “Obama Doctrine” to date? Because that’s what every pundit is saying! Every president needs his own Military Doctrine, and sure, this’ll do.
