Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 11:49:01 am
Yesterday, as Rand Paul was desperately avoiding answering questions about his stance on abortion, he tried to deflect the issue by calling out DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Later in the day, when asked after a campaign stop in Milford about the interview, which the Democratic National Committee had sent ...

Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 3:34:46 pm
YouTube Just discovered Linus of Hollywood from his performance on the excellent compilation album Here Comes the Reign Again: The Second British Invasion. This great little pop tune is from his latest record, Something Good. (Note: Possibly not safe for work because of F-bomb.) From the album "Something Good" AVAILABLE NOW ...

Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:12:34 pm
YouTube I don't know how much of this song is autobiographical, but it has a ring of truth that's heart-wrenching and undeniable. I was tempted to call it the saddest song I've ever heard, but if it is autobiographical, Bob Schneider has pulled up out of that nose dive and built ...

Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:00:22 am
I hang around libertarians more often than you might guess. Some of them are even nice! But they're rare. Mostly I hang around libertarians to better understand how political intuition can go so far off the rails for some things. Found this on Google Images, turns out it was from a ...

Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:30:22 pm
Death and The Anti-Vaxxer This is one blog post I've held off writing because it angers me beyond bearing, and scares me to death. rawstory.com 15 years ago, Andrew Wakefield, then a doctor, presented a paper to the famous medical journal The Lancet. In it he claimed there was a link between autism ...

Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:50:54 am
Vimeo This is one of the most fun videos I have had the honor of working on, and was happy to be brought on to this project as a writer, director of photography and 3D animator. Here is the popular electronic music artist, Giraffage. The video chronicles the ...

Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:08:56 am
SoundCloud Today's absolutely grotesque example of right wing hate speech comes from radio screamer Michael Savage (real name: Michael Weiner), who launched into a deranged rant against veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder because they aren't strong manly men like him. Remember when right wingers used to pretend to care about ...

Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:44:09 am
So what was strange, twisted right wing hatchet man and malevolent garden gnome Ben Shapiro doing yesterday while the funeral of Michael Brown took place? He was busily digging up examples of funerals that weren't attended by Obama administration officials. And look! He made them into a listicle, for ease of ...

Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:05:47 am
Today Breitbart "News" is continuing the incitement of race-hatred in their white right wing audience, with yet another evil-minded post by Ben Shapiro titled: 5 RACE RIOTS IN OBAMA'S POST-RACIAL AMERICA. With a grotesque title like that, Shapiro is obviously appealing to the lowest common denominator knuckle-draggers, and you can probably ...

Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:32:42 am
Today, the Dumbest Man on the Internet can barely contain his excitement over an ugly racist incident in Moscow -- because it was directed against President Obama, of course. Jim Hoft drools: Russians Shine Laser Show of Obama 'Fellating' Banana on US Embassy in Moscow (Video) | the Gateway Pundit. As usual, ...

Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:04:44 am
After being exposed as a serial plagiarist, Buzzfeed writer Benny Johnson has been fired; here's the post by Ben Smith: Editor's Note: An Apology to Our Readers. Starting this Wednesday, Twitter users began pointing out instances in which a BuzzFeed writer, Benny Johnson, had lifted phrases and sentences from other ...

Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:50:01 am
Here's a good lengthy article at the Washington Post on the Tea Party's all-out push in Mississippi to get out the vote for racist, homophobic neo-Confederate candidate Chris McDaniel: In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots Try to Prove Their Worth. I think this is my favorite part of ...

Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:52:51 am
Classy as always, today half-governor Sarah Palin decided to use Chelsea Clinton's pregnancy to attack Hillary Clinton, in another of her trademark incoherent word salads: Sarah Palin: Hillary Clinton Should 'Open Her Eyes'. "She, just knowing that her daughter Chelsea is pregnant with a baby -- it's a real baby! ...

Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:55:48 pm
Here's today's massive wall of text from a dedicated follower who's been emailing similar crazy rants for about two years now. Based on "her" previous communications, "Linda Jo" is actually a right wing religious fanatic, but you wouldn't know it from "her" latest deranged screed: May we have some more ...

Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:11:28 am
Rep. Mary Sue McClurkinSo a few days ago I posted a page about how Alabama is attempting to force "Christian" prayer in all Public schools. Specifically, this revolved around Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Indian Springs, who blatantly ignored a 2-3 loss in a voice vote for something she (and ...

Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:36:30 am
Right wing clown Erick Erickson is having a serious fit today over... something. I've read this bizarre rant twice now and I still don't understand what set him off, or if there's a point at all besides an inchoate scream against the dreaded "liberal media:" 'Impeach the President'. Here are some ...

Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:33:36 pm
Loveable Louie was on Fox & Friends today, expounding on a favorite wingnut talking point: making idiotic comparisons between things they don't like and slavery, though GOHMERT! was careful to call it "servitude." And like Louie, I am so grateful for Fox News, that only beacon of truth in the vast ...

Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:42:50 pm
We have a cool new feature for registered users tonight -- uploading images to your Image Library is now easier than ever. In the comment section, you can now upload an image simply by dragging and dropping it on the "Upload Image" button. The feature is backward-compatible; if you click the ...

Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:20:54 pm
I think it's time for a ridiculously cute photo from The Internet Center for the Study of Baby Animal Cuteness, don't you?

Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:12:06 am
Media Research Center is 'America's Media Watchdog,' a right wing propaganda outlet that calls itself 'The Leader in Documenting, Exposing and Neutralizing Liberal Media Bias.' Of course they don't tell you that by 'neutralizing' they mean putting out alternate and in most ways much worse propaganda than what they perceive ...

Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 2:41:12 pm
YouTube The first time I heard Chris Thile play mandolin I was sure I was listening to a recording that was speeded up because it seemed almost inhumanly fast, but no... that's really him. The guy's a flat-picking monster, and his guitar partner Michael Daves is no slouch either. Thile and ...

Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:06:22 pm
The NSA is a topic of discussion on social media tonight because of 60 Minutes, but here's something I bet you didn't know about the incredibly intrusive techniques Facebook uses to monitor everything you do on their site (and beyond): Facebook Self-Censorship: What Happens to the Posts You Don't Publish? ...

Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:20:06 pm
(Cross-posted at The National Memo) We're about to hit what has been a solemn anniversary in America for a decade -- September 11. But this year, Republicans, led by Fox News, are set to focus on a more recent terrorist attack -- the one that claimed four American lives, including that of ...

Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:07:51 pm
YouTube The videos Bob Schneider's been making with various directors (this one's by Owen Egerton) to promote his latest album, Burden of Proof, are surprisingly dark and intense, with visual images that take Schneider's lyrics in unexpected directions. I wish I was a baby bear sleeping in the brown winter grass in ...

Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:07:28 pm
YouTube This is the second video off "I'm Good Now". This video was directed by Alexandra Valenti and shot in Bob's hometown of Austin, Texas. They say love finds its own way home Around the snakes inside your heart underneath all the bones And though the world may fold you in ...