Once you’re done reading what David Byrne thinks of Detroit, I’d like for you to check out Matt Taibbi’s new piece in Rolling Stone. Here’s a clip from the beginning of the article, at which point Taibbi is talking about being at a Palin rally in Kentucky, surrounded by hefty middle-aged folks on motor scooters. […]
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Byrne on Detroit and Taibbi on the Tea Party
If evolution is real, why can’t we go to the zoo and see monkeys evolving into human beings?
Over the last week or two, we’ve been having some fun here at the expense of Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party-supported Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware. We joked around about her puritanical views on masturbation, and we shared some laughs over her confession to having “dabbled” in witchcraft. Oh, and then there was that […]
Christine O’Donnell wins the Delaware primary, signals end of mankind
My plan was to write something about unhinged teabagger Christine O’Donnell’s big win in Delaware last night, and I’d started working on it, but then I happened across this great summary at Think Progress, and thought that I’d just steal it and save myself the trouble. In the final round of primaries last night, the […]
How’s Rick Snyder going to navigate the frothing sea of mental illness that is the Tea Party?
I didn’t mention it when it happened, but, a little over a week ago, the Tea Partiers here in Michigan waged a bit of a coup against the Republican party. Following is a clip from Blogging for Michigan: The inmates are taking over the asylum. In a big and incredibly underreported story that some of […]