About a year and a half ago, Glenn Beck did this bit that I thought, at the time, was the dumbest thing ever written. I was googling for some specific info on health care reform today, and I found a link to his site. I thought I’d click on it because – in all sincerity [...]

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Dear every asshole who supports the Max Baucus mandate-based health care plan on the justification that the government mandates that you must have car insurance, too:
The government only mandates that you have car insurance if you choose to drive. It’s not the same thing. If you can’t afford to keep up with car insurance, you [...]

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It’s Friday night, so I’m not going to be very eloquent. But here’s a thing:
So the health care debate seems to circle around the notion of bipartisanship, and you end up with Senators who say things like, It’s really important to the American people that we come up with a bipartisan solution. And then [...]

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I don’t tend to complain much about FOX News for the same reason I didn’t hate on boy bands when I was nineteen – there wasn’t any point to it, and they weren’t being made for me, so who cares what I think?
But what I do think is interesting is that, at least [...]

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Up until today, my favorite obliviously stupid post from a right-wing blogger came in the form of a post by Glenn Beck on his website called, “How to win the argument de jour with logic and facts” that promised to give his followers the rhetorical tools to dismantle anyone foolish enough to suggest that, like, [...]

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So, Stephen Marche has an essay in the latest issue of Esquire called Where Have All the Loose Women Gone? that, er, bravely explores the topic of why the women Stephen Marche wants to sleep with, or expects that Esquire readers want to sleep with, seem to be less interested in doing it than in [...]

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The Internet has never been good at observing the whole “tragedy + time = comedy” formula, usually substituting “volumes of snarky jokes” for time in that equation. You’ll have noticed it if you’re on Twitter and seen the countless swine flu gags that went around the past few days.
I’m not really an easily-offended dude, [...]

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If you were watching airplanes take off from Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston today, you probably wouldn’t notice anything odd about Continental Flight No. 9990. But during its planned two-hour flight, the aircraft will be burning a fuel made of algae and jatropha, a plant that grows in arid lands.
A-1, this is good news because [...]

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