Keep in mind that this kid is the product of right-wing homeschooling which should be considered child abuse.
March 31, 2010
by James Reyes
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Awkward interview of Spelling Bee winner
March 25, 2010
by James Reyes
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A Texan’s map of the United States
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.
via clusterflock
March 22, 2010
by James Reyes
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Right-winger David Frum: It’s Waterloo all right, ours
David Frum opines on the strategic error of Congressional Republicans in their all-or-nothing obstructionist stance on health care reform.
Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. But:
(1) It’s a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November – by then the economy will have improved and the immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs.
(2) So what? Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now.
So far, I think a lot of conservatives will agree with me. Now comes the hard lesson.
March 22, 2010
by James Reyes
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Democrats who voted against health care reform
John Adler NJ-3
Jason Altmire PA-4
Michael Arcuri NY-24
John Barrow GA-12
Marion Berry ARK-1
Dan Boren OK-2
Rick Boucher VA-9
Bobby Bright AL-2
Ben Chandler KY-6
Travis Childers MISS-1
Artur Davis AL-7
Lincoln Davis TN-4
Chet Edwards TX-17
Parker Griffith AL-5
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin SD-1
Tim Holden PA-1
Larry Kissell NC-8
Frank Kratovil MD-1
Daniel Lipinski IL-3
Stephen F. Lynch MA-9
Jim Marshall GA-8
Jim Matheson UT-2
Mike McIntyre NC-7
Michael McMahon NY-13
Charlie Melancon LA-3
Walt Minnick ID-1
Glenn Nye VA-2
Collin Peterson MN-7
Mike Ross AR-4
Heath Shuler NC-11
Ike Skelton MO-4
Zack Space OH-18
John Tanner TN-8
Gene Taylor MS-4
Harry Teague NM-2
List compiled by Oliver Willis.
March 21, 2010
by James Reyes
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Documentary film on the pope from Kansas
I have previously blogged on this guy in Kansas, David Bawden, who claims to be the true Pope of the Catholic Church. You might remember Thomas Frank devoted a chapter to Bawden in his excellent book What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Up-and-coming filmmaker Adam Fairholm is nearing completion of a feature-length documentary about Bawden, who lives in Delia, Kansas with his mother and a seminarian. Fairholm produced a short documentary on Bawden as a class project three years ago and he decided to take the subject and enlarge it into a feature-length film.
Bawden is an interesting case study in the consequences of the overtly binary mentality characteristic of right-wingers.
Here is Fairholm’s original 10-minute documentary from 2007:
Here is the just released trailer for the upcoming feature-length film: