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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Here’s a thing that happened recently:
My professional life is divided into two segments – I work three days a week for a law firm in Austin running their blog, working on case summaries, and occasional other writing projects. I also have a freelance writing career that, while only about nine months old, has been lucky [...]

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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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I never really gave a fuck about Metallica, even when I was fifteen and they were supposed to be my favorite band. I liked Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson instead. And if Metallica doesn’t do it for you at fifteen, they probably aren’t gonna rock your world at twenty-eight. Still, Rick Rubin produced their [...]

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Well, there’s probably dumber, but this is definitely the most embarrassing thing I’ve read all week. Here’s noted retard Glenn Beck trying to explain why taxing rich people is bad, using a straw-man “liberal whiner” and attempting to refute it with an NFL metaphor:
‘I’m just talking about leveling the playing field, to give everyone [...]

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