SUCK IT! Kasich Opponents: Repeal Your Anti-Union Law — Then We’ll Talk The Ohio labor and progressive-backed political group that is behind the referendum to repeal Gov. John Kasich’s new law, which would weaken collective bargaining rights for public unions, has a response to his offer on Wednesday for compromise: We’ll sit down and talk [...]
Seriously? Prayer circle saved Sugarland from stage collapse. Call it a twist of fate or luck. Whatever it was, members of Sugarland can thank stage manager Hellen Rollens for saving their lives by making a spur-of-the-moment decision to hold a prayer circle just before the stage collapsed last Saturday at the Indiana State Fair. Looks [...]
With all of the political and economic dithering going on in America, it’s hard to hear the cries of those who are truly suffering around the world. From MSNBC: More than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa require food assistance due to the region’s worst drought in half a century, the United Nations [...]
Rick Perry’s prayer rally, “The Response”, has come and gone. Now we just get to wait until all of the prayers are answered. 30,000 people showed up to pray, so I’m sure God got the message. “This country is screwed, Jesus! Please send help!” It’s got to work, right? I mean, Perry invited some quality [...]
Great first episode! Stephen Hawking’s answer to the question, “Did God create the universe?”, is no. A remarkable answer when you consider it was given on an American cable station during prime time. The follow up conversation was ok, when Sean Carroll was speaking. He live-blogged it, so you should check it out. It would [...]
Fear. Pretty simple. That’s what’s wrong with America. It all comes down to this word. FEAR. Republicans fear taxes. Democrats fear Republicans. Christians fear Muslims. Sarah Palin fears facts. FEAR! That guy fears government. She fears her 401k returns. He fears educated women. That woman fears having to make a choice. FEAR!!! Boogiemen. Satan. World [...]
So, climate scientist Deputy Fife Republican presidential nominee has-run hopeful Tim “T-Paw” Pawlenty has weighed in again on climate change, and he no likey. “The weight of the evidence is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes,” Pawlenty said in an interview published Wednesday. “But to the extent there [...]
The only thing I can’t relate to is the ending. I felt a sense of wonder and amazement after reading this comic. Great comic from Abstruse Goose.
Superman will renounce his US citizenship in Action Comics #900. Simultaneously, conservatives across the country will be struck blind, shit their pants, and point their righteous OUTRAGE!!!™ at the “liberal left”. Yahoo has done me the favor of collecting some choice comments from the article detailing Supes defection over at Comics Alliance, but I’ll share [...]