by Abe Sauer
Palin champions will hold up last night's "Sarah Palin's America" episode as proof of the candidate putting her money where her moose is. That is to say, after years of talking about being a hunter, Palin actually went ou…

Gah, this is an awful and credulously reported story: Child’s Nightmares and Memories Prove Reincarnation. There is no proof there. The story is simple: ordinary child plays video games, draws lots of pictures of airplanes in dogfights and dropping bom…

Flyingfish knows he’s allowed to photograph TSA checkpoints from public areas in the airport. He knows this because it is the TSA’s publicly stated position.

But a refused-to-identify-himself TSA agent and a state trooper at Hartford’s Bradley Interna…

Here’s an anonymous account of a US Army soldier returning from Afghanistan who watched as his buddies — who were all carrying high-powered rifles, pistols, etc — were forced to surrender their nail-clippers and multi-tools:

So we’re in line, going…

Aaron Swartz sez, “Bold legislators in New Jersey and Idaho have introduced bills
stopping the new porno-scanners, but that’s not enough — we need to
pass these bills in every state! So I set up a thing to make it
super-easy to contact your state leg…

It’s hard not to crack a cheerful smile at this story, but do try to take it seriously. A coven of Westboro Baptist anti-gay kooks went off to protest outside a soldier’s funeral in Oklahoma, and returned to their car to find their tires slashed. When …

I voted

JT has had enough with fear-driven election ads, so here’s “a little 30 second blipvert lifting heavily from Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the RGA’s own ‘Remember November’ campaign.”

Vote Hope

(Thanks, JT!)

Jon Stewart presumably came to DC to rally the sane against Glenn Beck’s minions and 9/11 Truthers. But instead of amplifying that message in The Daily Show interview with President Obama yesterday, Stewart opted to focus on the most weak and superfici…

I’m so glad we have organization like the Republican Party and the Teabaggers to keep our home-grown fascists busy.

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