Category Archives: Ninnies

A Nation of Nine-Eleven Ninnies

Tens of millions of U.S. residents believe that they could be the victims of a terrorist attack.
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Posted in Fucking Morons, Ninnies, Propaganda, Terrorism, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 9 Comments

FOX TV Misinformation About MRSA

FOX TV: doing its part to make the MRSA problem even worse.
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Posted in Antibiotics, Education, Experts, Fucking Morons, Microbiology, MRSA, Ninnies, The War on Science, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 13 Comments

Airport Security and Insulin Pumps

It appears that Logan airport security overreacted a little. What are your experiences with medical devices and airport security?
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Posted in Ninnies, Things That Make Ya Go Boom | 4 Comments

Sunday Sermon: John Nichols on Impeachment

John Nichols, in an interview with Bill Moyers, clarifies a very important–and misunderstood–point about impeachment.
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Compulsive Centrist Disorder, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Ninnies | 5 Comments

Some Slogans for the Congressional Democrats

Over at Hullabaloo, I found this great list of suggested slogans for congressional Democrats
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Posted in Democrats, Ninnies | 5 Comments

Bush Obstructs Justice…

and are you in any way, shape, or form surprised? Has anything in the last six years suggested to anyone in the Coalition of the Sane that the Bush/Cheney Administration has any sense of shame or propriety? Of course not.
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Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Fucking Morons, Fucking Royals, Little Lord Pontchartrain, Ninnies, We're Really Fucked | 10 Comments

The Failed Iraq Vote and A Nation of ‘Friedmans’

I go away for a meeting, and Congress goes and holds a vote about the Iraq War. Like some, I’m disgusted by the outcome, but I think many are blaming the wrong people. To paraphrase Pogo, the enemy is us. Or least part of us.
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Posted in Authoritarianism, Democrats, Iraq, Ninnies, Voting | 4 Comments

Ode to the Phrase “F-cking Moron”

Well, that isn’t what Ezra Klein titled his post about blogospheric venom, but he should have.
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Posted in Bloggity Blog, Fucking Morons, News Media, Ninnies | 1 Comment

Saturday Sermon: Lewis Lapham on the Culture Wars

I’m working my through Lewis Lapham’s Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration. Here’s what he has to say about the culture wars:
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Birds Do It, Bees Do It, But Does…

Senator and Republican presidential candidate John “Snuggles” McCain do it? For that matter, evangelicals do it–even before getting married. This makes McCain’s support for abstinence-only sex education even more ridiculous. But let’s talk more about sex, baby.
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Posted in Conservatives, Let's Talk About Sex, Baby, Ninnies | 3 Comments