Filed at 6:22 pm, Monday March 08th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
Not that anyone needed more proof that Glenn Beck is a terrible, terrible person, but…
On his daily radio and television shows last week, Fox News personality Glenn Beck set out to convince his audience that “social justice,” the term many Christian churches use to describe their efforts to address poverty and human rights, is a […]
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Filed at 8:40 am, Sunday February 28th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
What an excellent, cogent comment on this post, sir or madam. I had no idea that abortion had such uplifting opinions.
Installment 2. Previously…
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Filed at 9:48 pm, Friday February 26th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
I’m with Oliver and Paddy. This is so freaking awesome.
I cannot wait for him to unveil his evidence.
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Filed at 12:33 pm, Saturday February 20th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
Our American media’s reporting on Iran’s nuclear program is dangerously bad quality– to the point where 71% of Americans mistakenly believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile– and you would never hear this repeated in American news– Ayatollah Khamene’i once again proclaims that nuclear weapons are contrary to Islam.
Earlier
Our press is stupid, stupid, stupid when […]
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Filed at 9:17 am, Sunday February 14th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
Oh boy, look at this:
Jon Ralston reports the Tea Party has qualified as a third party in Nevada and will have a candidate in the U.S. Senate race.
Assuming the Tea Party candidate would draw votes away from the Republican candidates, it may be just the thing Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) needs to win in a […]
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Filed at 8:44 pm, Thursday February 04th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
I just stumbled across this 2008 article by investment expert Rick Aristotle Munarriz arguing that Google should intentionally manipulate its stock price for the purpose of tricking unwitting potential employees into working for them. Excellent. Clearly ethical behavior, as evidenced by the fact that none of the commenters seem to think his suggestion is at […]
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Filed at 6:10 pm, Thursday January 28th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
Major hat tip to Oliver Willis.
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Filed at 3:02 pm, Sunday January 24th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
For an article about childhood obesity and how the first lady is stepping up to urge mayors across the country to combat it in their communities, the Huffington Post gives this us headline:
Pathetic.
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Filed at 8:34 pm, Tuesday January 19th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
Hopefully little or nothing.
The AP just called the special election in Massachusetts about a minute ago and Coakley (D) has just conceded. Well, that was pathetic, no matter what the final tally turns out to be. Unbelievably pathetic. A Republican won Ted Kennedy’s seat in the bluest state in the country by campaigning against the […]
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Filed at 6:19 pm, Tuesday January 19th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
Jon Stewart brings it. Nothing much more to say here.
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Filed at 6:01 pm, Thursday January 14th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
So, with as many as 50,000 people dead in Haiti right now due to a terrible natural disaster the scope of which is very rare, MoveOn.org sent out this very important message to its members:
To be fair, a day later they sent out another, much shorter email with links to charities to donate to. But […]
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Filed at 8:50 pm, Saturday January 09th 2010
by Arlen Parsa
You would think that of all people, Rudy “a noun, a verb and 9/11” Giuliani would not make a statement as stupid as this one.
The HuffPost also helpfully recounts:
“Um, really?” wrote ABC News reporter Rick Klein on Twitter. Later he added, “even if Rudy MEANT to say post-9/11, what makes this incident different than [shoe […]
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Filed at 1:40 pm, Friday January 01st 2010
by Arlen Parsa
Unfortunately, bad reporting doesn’t take a vacation even when most people do. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry has filed a formal request to visit Iran, according to the Iranian-based Fars News Agency.
A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed the request today. “Since it [the request] is for a […]
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Filed at 9:21 pm, Wednesday December 30th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
I think I’ve finally figured out how Republicans think. It’s a little complicated, but bear with me:
1. When a terrorist attack that kills almost 3,000 Americans occurs on the watch of a Republican president, 8 months into his term, it’s an inherited and unavoidable tragedy.
Whereas…
When a terrorist attack which kills no one is foiled on […]
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Filed at 8:48 am, Thursday December 24th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Especially thank you to the 92 year old Robert Byrd, who has been attending roll calls in a wheelchair (and whose death was seemingly hoped for by a Republican Senator trying to stall the bill).
Now let’s move on, merge the bills, make it better, and pass it already. Supposedly the White House will be “involved” […]
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