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Al Franken kicks eleventy-million kinds of ass in health-care hearing - Boing Boing
My favourite part isn’t the sarcasm, it’s his point about cherry-picking statistics.
Reblogged from sparoEven though he didn’t deserve it, it’s still awesome that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, right? No, it’s not. It used to be, but now that Barack Obama has done it, it’s un-American.
It’s been getting kind of confusing keeping track of what’s truly American anymore, so Gawker came up with a handy list of things that are socialist and foreign because Barack Obama has soiled them, by doing them.
I, too, am painfully dismayed by the abysmal quality of debate over health care and the economy. I might even say all the hope I’d had has bled out my ear. Sigh.
Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Townhall Comparing Obama To Hitler (via PoliticsNewsPolitics)
“Mam, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.”
William Shatner recites Sarah Palin [via @booksin140, The New Yorker]
Editing geekery + politics = orgasm in my brain.
Read the whole thing. As you already know, it goes on and on and on and on.
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