I thought my ex-girlfriend was crazy

Via Ace of Spades: Police say woman assaulted boyfriend for refusing sex An Iowa City woman is accused of ripping a door off a house and striking her boyfriend because he refused to have sex with her. Melissa B. Minarsich, 28, of 131 Taft Speedway, is charged with domestic abuse assault, second offense, after the [...]

Do I Have To Vote for Mitt Romney?

About a month ago, Jackass supporters were trying to stir the pot by putting up Mitt Romney as the only candidate Obama was afraid of. This was when Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry were contenders in the polls. Now that both have fallen in the polls and only “impossible” candidate Herman Cain is in the [...]

What if they told Iowa to f**k off?

The shoe is on the other horse: First on CNN: Florida will likely hold Jan. primary, threatening presidential calendar Florida is now expected to hold its presidential primary on the last day in January 2012, a move likely to throw the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray and jumpstart the nominating process a month [...]

False Identity

Yves at Nekkid Capitalism: Why Liberals Are Lame: McCarthyite Identity Politics as Cover for Bankrupt Policies The latest desperate strategy of Obama’s spin-meisters highlights the rot at the core of the Democratic party: the heavy handed use of identity politics as a cover for neoliberal policies that betray the very groups the party purports to [...]

Is that a threat?

Erin McPike at Real UnClear Politics: If a white Republican unseats the first African-American president, what would happen next? The stock answer from GOP political professionals is: “Not much of anything, really.” The new president, they say, will focus on the issues all Americans care about, including jobs, which is the direst need in the [...]

10/4 is “Run, Sarah, Run” day!

I suggested this over at c4p, and I think the readers are game for it. October 4 is the day the  DVD release day for The Undefeated, and we are going to  make it “Run, Sarah, Run” day. If you want Sarah Palin to run for President, then on October 4, bloggers, tweeters, facebook members, [...]

Gotta keep those narratives

ABC News: Sarah Palin: ‘Is a Title and Campaign Too Shackle-y?’ A Palin presidency: Too “shackle-y?” That’s what Sarah Palin suggested on Fox News’ “On The Record with Greta VanSusteren” tonight, saying that she’s concerned jumping into the 2012 presidential race will muffle her message. “Is a title worth it?” she asked, rhetorically. “Does a [...]

BOHICA

Via The Daily Howler: Health Insurers Push Premiums Sharply Higher Major health insurance companies have been charging sharply higher premiums this year, outstripping any growth in workers’ wages and creating more uncertainty for the Obama administration and employers who are struggling to drive down an unrelenting rise in medical costs. A study released on Tuesday [...]

Golden Sacks rules the world

Was the BBC victim of a hoax? No, say the Yes Men “Governments don’t rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world.” That’s what a purported London-based independent trader named Alessio Rastani told the BBC on Monday in a jaw-dropping interview that quickly went viral. But just as quickly, rumors swirled that Rastani was actually [...]

Video – UC Berkeley Racist Bake Sale

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What part of “independent” don’t you get?

We had a troll booger-eating moron visitor drop by last night: UNeverKnow, on September 27, 2011 at 7:50 pm said: Well, it’s obvious you threw away your democrat card and sided with the GOP! Tell me which GOP do you want to be another Bush? Dear UNeverKnow: Technically I am still a Democrat, but that’s [...]

Inflating the bubble

Washington Independent: Suit Alleges Trusted Blacks Drew Minorities to High-Rate Loans As the housing market began booming in the mid-2000s, Wells Fargo & Co. teamed up with prominent African American commentator and PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley and financial author Kelvin Boston, the host of “Moneywise,” a multicultural financial affairs show, to host something [...]