Bill O'Reilly Sucks

Not that that's news, or anything.

Anyway, from Robot 6:

[W]hen the shoe was on the other foot, O'Reilly did a little stomping of his own: He took offense to his portrayal by political cartoonist Mike Thompson and ... well, let’s let Mike tell it:

He then gave out my work e-mail address and instructed his viewers to "let him know what you think." O'Reilly stressed that his viewers should take the high road in their e-mails to me, which is a little like placing a bowl of Halloween candy in front of kids and telling them not to gorge themselves. O'Reilly's smart enough to know what would happen.

Yup, the high road was definitely the road not taken. Thompson received over 2,500 e-mails, many of them in all caps, discussing exactly what people thought of him and his cartoon and what they would like to do to him.

I'm well aware that there's hypocrisy on both sides of the political spectrum, I'm just tired of it. Aren't you?

What would your name be if Sarah Palin was your mother?

My name? Recoil Mush Palin

Find yours at Poli Tsk Tsk Tsk

Reason in the Big Easy

A the whole proclamation and little more found at Friendly Atheist.

Teabonics

A Flickr set of signs from Tea Party demonstrations.

Pardon Richard Nixon

Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell

Baggage

Goddamed FOX News.

In case you can't make it out, the sign in question reads, "Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag YOU!" This appears in the latest Captain America comic. #602.

Seems to me, I've seen a sign like this in real life. Oh, that's right, a similar one appeared at a Tea Bagging rally last year.

Seriously, comics can't make this Tea Bagging movement look bad, the fact that it holds up Sarah Palin as an example does that.

You Guys

You are just so great:

Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn’t, in his view, adequately prepare for this past weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services.

Not All of Us Dislike Clark

Bruce Wayne is a jerk. Clark Kent isn't, even if audiences want him to be. So making the man from Krypton some brooding mental case that has Punisher-esque tendencies will not work because it doesn't match the Super-mythos. A legend that espouses a belief in a greater good and that good, no matter the hardships, will ultimately prevail.

How lame. This outdated school of thought hasn't done much for Americans since Watergate.

Erik Buckman, Superman Is Dead, and We Killed Him

via Occasional Superheroine

They are the same.

Sonuvabitch

California High Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban

The 6-1 majority opinion was written by Chief Justice Ronald M. George - who wrote May's opinion that paved the way for gay marriages - and was joined by Justices Joyce L. Kennard, Marvin R. Baxter, Ming W. Chin and Carol A. Corrigan. Kennard also filed a separate concurring opinion.

The 6-1 opinion rejected the challenge to Proposition 8. The judges unanimously upheld the same-sex marriages that took place during the five-month window when such unions were legal.

Special Election!

Interactive maps of Tuesday's special election results for California.

1B is the only one any counties disagreed on:

And that's only three counties

Teabagging Conservatives

If You're Planning Tea Bagging Across The Country, 'You're Going To Need A Dick Armey'

The Succession of Texas

Governor Perry of Texas:

"Texas is a unique place," he said. "When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that."

Jim Riddlesperger, Political Scientist:

But the Civil War pretty much settled whether a state – even Texas – could secede from the union, said Jim Riddlesperger, a political science professor at Texas Christian University.

That underscores how Perry's statements are basically just political posturing, Riddlesperger said.

The article.

Randy Milholland, creator of Something Positive, Texan:

And we also joined the union because we were completely incapable of running a nation on our own. We were swamped in idiotic amounts of debt that our politicians had no idea how to manage. It's like threatening that the South will rise again.

Israel ≠ All Jews

The Anti-Defamation League calls this cartoon anti-Semitic.

Pat Oliphant's outlandish and offensive use of the Star of David in combination with Nazi-like imagery is hideously anti-Semitic. It employs Nazi imagery by portraying Israel as a jack-booted, goose-stepping headless apparition. The implication is of an Israeli policy without a head or a heart.

Israel's defensive military operation to protect the lives of its men, women and children who are being continuously bombarded by Hamas rocket attacks has been turned on its head to show the victims as heartless, headless aggressors.

To me, the comic is anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic.

I know it's hard for people to separate people following a religion and living all over the world from a nation based on that religion, but, come on, they're not the same thing. Ever.

Peachy

Rod Blagojevich. He's not going to his impeachment and neither are his lawyers.

Looking forward to him whining because he didn't "get to" face his accusers.

"The 'misunderestimated' president?"

The BBC brings us its favorite Bushisms.

Senator Francken

Behold the new Senator from Minnesota:

I'd Like Stuart Smalley In the Senate

Coleman vs. Franken!

Choose which ballots to dismiss and which to keep!

Lame Duck

He's shunned like the kid that smelled like pee in third grade.

I Hope They're Right

(From GraphJam)