- Today's comic is TEMA by Mark Fiore:
- It's so sad when The Onion has to explain how satire works.
- Sadly, this is not satire:
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani dispatched a key emissary to New Hampshire on Wednesday to gauge their interest in his possible presidential bid.
- Who knew this Congress was so polite?
Want civil discourse? Look no further than the House of Representatives.
The House this year has been a relative bastion of politeness, according to a new study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center. But the center said the 112th Congress looks ripe for incivility to spike with the upcoming 2012 election and the heated campaign rhetoric that comes with it.
So we've got that to look forward to. Yea!
- No way to be polite about this: These people are assholes.
- Totally not breaking: Fox "News" bobblehead defends the crowd of frothing haters at the Republican debate who booed a gay soldier.
- Sure would have been nice if he had figured this out sooner:
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is a man of few regrets from his nearly 35 years on the Supreme Court, except one — his 1976 vote to reinstate the death penalty.
"I really think that I've thought over a lot of cases I've written over the years. And I really wouldn't want to do any one of them over....With one exception," he told me.
"My vote in the Texas death case. And I think I do mention that in that case, I think that I came out wrong on that," Stevens said.
- Rape is never, ever, ever a laughing matter. Except this one time.
AbuseAttempted abuse of power in action:After quarreling with her husband and locking him out of their home last Christmas, state Sen. Suzi Schmidt called 911, identified herself as an elected official, asked police to "ignore" her husband if he called and said he feared her because she had "connections," according to newly released police reports and recordings of the call. [...]
During the Christmas call from her home outside Lake Villa, Schmidt, 60, started by identifying herself as the former Lake County Board chairwoman, said that she was having a "little" problem with her husband and instructed that, if he called police, "you can ignore him."
After the dispatcher explained to Schmidt that "we can't ignore anything," Schmidt went on to say, with a laugh, that her husband was "kind of afraid of me 'cause he knows I have connections."
- Do not look at this picture—unless a two-faced cat is your kind of thing.
- And definitely don't look at this six-foot Rick Perry Chia-head.
Posted: 2011-09-29 15:00:02Author:
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