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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The SXSW publishing schedule pushed this back to its limits of relevance, but it was a fun piece to write nonetheless - Chuck Norris is my President went live on Decider this weekend. It’s a response to Norris’ bizarre joke, later turned into a sincere op-ed on WorldNetDaily, that he wanted to be the President [...]

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(due to some technical difficulties at the moment, this week’s edition of my football column for troubl.org, Down and Distance, didn’t make it onto the site. Since it’s got a definite sell-by date stamped on it, I’m running it here today. Next week’s edition should run on troubl, as scheduled.)
It should be obvious at this [...]

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As happens sometimes when left without plans on a weekend, I have found myself arguing with goofballs in right-wing Internet communities about the meaning of Joe the Plumber. I’m not proud of it, but these things happen.
Now, I kinda like the guy. I think he’s a moron, for the most part, and that nobody [...]

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