• May 27, 2012

insanity

The serious proposals for fixing “the housing crisis” in this country have so far amounted to a) Alan Greenspan suggesting the federal government burn down the millions of vacant foreclosures across America and b) an actual government program that allowed Goldman Sachs to buy foreclosures in bulk for pennies on the dollar and then rent [...]

Hey guess who just gave his long-awaited resignation speech and DIDN’T ACTUALLY QUIT? We were just listening to this on BBC World Service in the car and about 90 seconds into the live translation, we said to ourselves, “Uhh, he’s not quitting.” And it took only a few more minutes for the demonstrators in Liberation [...]

Washington’s decadent spending spree is over, motherfuckers! There’s a new House Budget Committee Chairman in town, and his name is Paul Ryan. Maybe you’ve heard of him before, since he is the world’s most famous money-saving wizard? (When cleaning his bunghole, Paul Ryan always uses both sides of a piece of toiler paper — and [...]

Tonight’s weird new details: The alleged shooter walked through the crowd and directly to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. “He ran through the crowd and when he got to [Giffords] he just started shooting,” Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik said. ABC News reports on the mystery “white man in his 50s” who may have delivered the lunatic [...]

Political pundits and other nerds often talk about “October Surprises.” The best part about October Surprises is that they are surprisingly different each election cycle. (Sometimes the surprise is “Congressman Blah Blah is actually just a hologram, like 9/11 and Wolf Blitzer.” Other years it is “Senator Blowhard likes dudes.”) For instance, this year’s surprise [...]

Many years from now, your grandchild will ask inquisitively, “Grandpa, will you please tell me the story about that time the robots from the CIA killed the German people in the mountains of Pakistan?” And then you will scratch your head, as senile old people often do, and belch “You’ll have to be more specific. [...]

It’s a Republican WAR up in Alaska, where Senator Lisa Murkowski just announced she’s running a write-in campaign against hairy-cheeked weirdo Joe Miller, the Tea Party darling who won the GOP primary. Murkowski, a senator since her dad appointed her in 2002 when he was elected governor, won her 2004 election but last month lost [...]

Have you heard that CNN hired the blog Red State to be its new political commentator, to keep up with Glenn Beck or whatever? It is true. And the blog Red State is super-double crazy, which is fine and all, but now it is advocating some kind of insane “The Joker vs. Batman” wave of [...]

Cranky old baseball pitcher Sen. Jim Bunning, who is still being a dick for no reason or a stupid secret reason (kidney stone?) with regards to extending the Hobo Bean supply, was confronted in an elevator by some liberal journalists. He went insane. Is this person mentally stable enough to serve in the Senate? Unfortunately, [...]

by Jim Newell  3:58 pm October 14, 2009

LIKE THE FARMER’S ALMANAC, BUT GOOD: Holy moly! We didn’t even bother to explore the rest of that burny church’s website at first, but it is nuts, man, it is a stone cold treasure, and we just hope someone in that asylum remembers to pay the Internets bill each month. [Amazing Grace Baptist Church: Sports [...]

We know that a few of you might consider this “inside baseball,” so if that’s the case, then don’t read any more of this post and go do something else. Easy! Now: The New Republic heard the kids’ clamoring and has decided to release the full, insane Politico memo quoted in its new story, about [...]

You people thought we were joking about the random black and crippled guilt-bait Blago brought on stage during his press conference, but here they are, alongside, you know, a DEAD ILLINOIS CHILD to whom Blago had tried to deliver cheap prescription drugs, only to find that the evil state legislature had already murdered the child [...]

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Rod Blagojevich Is The New Obama

by Jim Newell  9:44 pm December 30, 2008

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It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on the musings of Washington Post in-house coot Richard Cohen, who’s hated every single development in American culture since 1958. Earlier this year he spent a whole column ranting about the kids and their tattoos (“I simply do not care for tattoos”), another about Amazon’s Kindle (“I [...]