They are ignorant religious fanatics who live in the past and love to bugger little boys, so it’s really no big deal that Republicans have finally embraced their only peers on this planet, the Taliban. Remember those dudes?! They were all, “Blah blah allah 9/11,” and then George W. Bush was all, “Gonna blow smoke up your caves, knocked them buildings down,” and hooray, we won the war, against the Taliban, and then, whoops!, not so much, and now the new president is all, “Now we have to go have the whole goddamned war in Afghanistan again, because the Bush idiots managed to screw it all the hell up for seven years.” In other words, Republican Congressman Pete Sessions says the GOP needs to join the Taliban! MORE »

Is this gentleman a member of the Taliban, ready to fight and die against the American invaders in the name of radical Islam, or a jam band kid, ready to smoke a bowl and twirl for a while to a 70 minute String Cheese Incident guitar solo? That simple question is the impetus behind “jam band fan or taliban,” an exciting new entry in the “is it this thing or that thing that looks like this thing” field.

Jam Band Fan or Taliban?

Last Cocktober, the Taliban sat down together and put together a very important, useful list of rules. Blogger Jon Swift notes that many of the rules would’ve been quite helpful for our Republicans brothers and sisters who got into so much trouble these last couple months. Rule number 19, in fact, could’ve stopped the bloodbath before it ever started: MORE »

Maybe the October Surprise is “Everybody Goes Crazy,” because that’s the only rational explanation for Bill Frist’s sudden desire to “cut and run” from Afghanistan. MORE »