The Big Empty

What Maher said...

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:15:37 PST

"People get mad at me for using the phrase "this stupid country", which I sometimes do -- but, I'm sorry -- Satan? In 2012? This elephant is not only in the room at the debates, but everywhere on TV today where people were talking about this and not breaking down in the middle and screaming, Wait a minute -- We're modern people, surely we don't give any credence to this comic book character that was created in the bronze age!! It's barely worthy of a children's story, and people take it to the Oval Office -- Bush did -- and it affects their thinking and our lives. Why is Santorum so against contraception? Because there's a line in Genesis about not spilling your seed. A random brainfart from some desert dweller 3,000 years ago, before people knew about germs or atoms or round planets, and it gets written down and passed down and in 2012 people like Rick Santorum are still too R-word to see that, and that's why some woman in Akron, Ohio might not get birth control." [HuffPo]

A Sly One & Jurrane Distraction

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:38:05 PST

Ladies and germs, I present to you the Rethuglipuritanclown Party!

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:15:23 PST

Tweet of the day

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:09:22 PST

When prayer is a bad thing

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:27:21 PST

"We want a man that honors God to lead our nation. We have been praying to the Lord that if you want the heart of the voters to turn to Rick Santorum, then please do so," Michelle told RadarOnline. She and Jim Bob [Duggar] actually have quite a bit in common with Santorum, which is one reason they were so eager to offer their support. [ChristianPost]

I'm from the government...

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:12:02 PST

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A Will Holland Distraction

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:20:52 PST

Every liberal's dream candidate

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:08:48 PST

Pope Frothy!

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:30:25 PST

Quote of the day

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:46:22 PST

Santorum's opponents should respect the difference between private life and public policy for this obvious reason: He himself does not. Though few doubt the sincerity of his personal beliefs, nearly everything that passes his lips is cause for doubting his understanding of basic democratic principles — the ones that honor differences, respect privacy and protect individual liberty. --Meghan Daum

Rethugs slouching towards irrelevancy & extinction...or not

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:48:13 PST

When a Rethug pretzeldential candidate "excommunicates" all mainstream Protestants, it might be safe to assume that his party is quickly slouching towards irrelevancy and extinction. OTOH, mainstream media apparently isn't getting those memos so... Never Mind!!

Meet the Press: Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Roundtable: Republican Strategist Ed Gillespie, Al Hunt (Bloomberg News), Helene Cooper (New York Times) and Andrea Mitchell(NBC News).

Face the Nation: Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA); Romney Biographer Michael Kranish; Roundtable: Norah O’Donnell (CBS News), John Dickerson (CBS News), Karen Tumulty (Washington Post) and Todd Spangler (Detroit Free Press).

This Week: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Obama Campaign Senior Adviser Robert Gibbs; Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Jonathan Karl (ABC News), Lou Dobbs (Fox Business Network), Dee Dee Myers (Vanity Fair) and Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune).

Fox News Sunday: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA); House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA); Roundtable: Kimberly Strassel (Wall Street Journal), Former Howard Dean Campaign Manager Joe Trippi, Republican Strategist Karl Rove and Kristen Powers (The Daily Beast).

State of the Union: Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX); Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R); Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN); Former CIA Director Michael Hayden; Former US Ambassador to Egypt and Israel Ed Walker; Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz; Reliable Sources: Frank Bruni (New York Times); Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post); Scott Conroy (Real Clear Politics); David Carr (New York Times); Vince Coglianese (Daily Caller); Andrea McCarren (Washington CBS Affiliate); Buzz Bissinger (Vanity Fair).

The Chris Matthews Show: Liz Marlantes (Christian Science Monitor); Michael Duffy (TIME); Major Garrett (National Journal); Kelly O’Donnell (NBC News).

A disasterous distraction

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:19:48 PST

Bishop Lori tells story about pork

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:13:38 PST

Personally I'd rather hear the bishop tell stories about his priests' porking but whatever... Lori's parable is just bugfuck insane enough to not only compel Jeebus to beg to be crucified again, but it may also keep his parishioners awake long enough to wonder what, in the name of Allah, does this have to do with contraception and women's rights.

Dear MSM, keep those distractions coming...

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:36:27 PST

..so we don't need to focus on the economic disaster that is the United Snakes of Amerika.

What Marcotte said...

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:08:10 PST

"Steve Kornacki has a good horse race summary taking the temperature of Mitt Romney's campaign. Diagnosis: not good. While Romney basically can't lose, barring some kind of weird delegate wrangling that I suppose is always possible but seems unlikely, the knocks he's taking are leaving him in poor fighting condition to take on the general election against Obama. A huge part of the problem is that Romney is just a shitty candidate, something that got forgotten when he was looking good next to the slate of cranks and kooks that challenged him in the primary. But I think a larger part of the problem is that hating Romney has become a stand-in for conservative self-loathing and the current right wing mania for purity." [padagon]

Nope, but Zyklon B is a possibility

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:41:39 PST

Quote of the day

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:26:43 PST

"When a political party has lied, defrauded and bludgeoned their way into such a self-inflicted, brain-damaged stupor that not only has every one of its core ideas blown up into spectacular, public failures...but its desperate attempts to distract the public from the spectacular and public failure of its core ideas have themselves becoming spectacular and public failures." --driftglass

Poor Tweety. Always and forever a tool

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:53:16 PST

A Kewlaid Distraction

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:09:36 PST

Indeed I am!

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:05:39 PST

Indeed it does!

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:03:08 PST

The santorum surge spreads...

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:22:34 PST

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Frothy quote of the day

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:13:20 PST

Conservatives trust families and the ordinary Americans that are formed by them. Liberals don't. They border on disdain for the common man. --From a book written by some meatpuppet whose inner child and outer child wears a sweater vest. The quote appears within an article written by a journalist who is trying ever so hard not to paint the meatpuppet as simply an ordinary, though thoroughly twisted, lump of flesh.

Tweet of the day

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:13:54 PST

Turning and turning in the widening gyre *

noreply@blogger.com (bjork55) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:19:56 PST

The funny hat guys...

command you consume...

a frothy mixture of doom and gloom:

* my apologies to W.B. Yeats