social security
A Republican former senator from Wyoming totally said “tits” to a lady, in an email! Specifically, Alan “Bartholomew J.” Simpson, who is now the co-chair of the White House’s Commission on Fiscal Reform, called Social Security a “cow with 310 million tits.” HAHAHAHAHH. And now some uptight lame-os want him to resign. But should he?
There has long been a lot of pessimism over Social Security. Those good-for-nothing Baby Boomers are going to bankrupt the system, just like they did to Lehman Brothers and Groovy Acid-Tripping, Inc. back in the day. But something came out today: Gallup took a poll and quantified that pessimism. It turns out 6 out of [...]
Sharron Angle Does Not Want To Murder Harry Reid With Guns
Ha ha, remember when Sharron Angle was some nobody teabagger that people voted for because, well, she’s nuts and all, but at least she doesn’t believe that people should pay for health care with live poultry? Back then she could just spout off with all sorts of crazy stuff, like, say, “People are really looking [...]
Trust us, Washington Post, we know all too well the horror of sitting in front of your computer and realizing that you have infinite Internet space to fill and nothing to fill it with. In our case, it’s because yet another morning is wearing on and the entire Republican leadership refuses to be caught blowing [...]
Wingnut child Marco Rubio wants to be Florida’s next U.S. senator, but does he hate Florida’s main population group (old people) too much? The maverick teabagger youth went on the teevee this weekend to debate charming orange heterosexual married man Charlie Crist, just to tell the Alligator State’s millions of Olds that he would soon [...]
PHEW! We were worried that Harold Ford’s decision not to run for the Senate meant that he might start shutting the fuck up at some point. But apparently he understands that that would be too dignity-saving for America, and he must FIGHT to produce blogger comedy in this the terrible recession. And that’s why he [...]
You know that oft-repeated line about how Social Security will be screwed when the Boomers all get old at the same time? Well according to this graph from the CBO, we crossed that threshold into “screwed” territory right around, say, 10:36 this morning. You know what would be a great way to solve this? Taxing [...]
