A week or so ago, reality-challenged Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann called on her tea-bagging minions to come to D.C. for “an emergency house call on Congress.” The idea was that there would be a rally at the Capital, and, after the rally, all the logic-impaired Bachmann followers would be set loose like wild dogs on […]
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FOX News caught faking Bachmann rally footage
Posted in Media, Politics Also tagged Daily Show, estimating crowd size, FOX News, healthcare reform, Jon Stewart, Michele Bauchmann, Sean Hannity, Superbowl of Freedom, tea party, teabagging 10 Comments
Baltimore’s Book Thing
I just stumbled across yet another reason to love Baltimore. It’s called Book Thing. According to the story, the founder of Book Thing – a guy named Russell Watterberg – was a bartender in Baltimore five years ago when the idea first struck him. He was there, at the bar, talking with drinking schoolteachers about […]
Posted in Art and Culture, entrepreneurism Also tagged Baltimore, Book Thing, books, Chicago Tribune, Dan Richardson, free stuff, Russell Watterberg, vonnegut, Vonnegut Initiative 5 Comments
Quote of the day: Jesse Ventura on Cheney
Former Navy Seal and Minnesota Governor, Jesse Ventura, in an interview largely about Norm Coleman’s loss to Al Franken, had the following to say about waterboarding to Larry King. [Video of the exchange can be found here.]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics Also tagged Al Franken, Dick Cheney, Jesse Ventura, Norm Coleman, waterboarding 9 Comments