The GOP’s Map Of America

Fairly accurate, I’d say.

America’s White Male Problem

The Article: America’s White Male Problem by Frank Schaeffer in AlterNet.

The Text: The American political process is being hijacked by a reckless, whining dangerous gang of psychologically damaged white men who are far-right ideologues. I used to be one of them. It’s time to tell the truth about our white male problem.

Not everyone who disagrees with the president is a racist. Not even most people who do are. But the continuous attempt by the white far-right in Congress to shut down the government rather than work with our black president has a lot to do with racism. And lurching from manufactured crisis to crisis isn’t about politics; it’s about pathology. It doesn’t make sense politically to take the blame for risking America’s future — and the Republicans know they will take the blame — so how can we conclude other than something else is going on here?

I’m not talking about the white young male mass murderers we’re afflicted with carrying assault rifles courtesy of the NRA. I’m talking about the white far-right males who hijacked the 112th Congress and are set to destroy the 113th. They have metaphorically done to our country what the killer in Newtown literally did to 20 children, and for the same apparent reason: alienation from the mainstream and retreat to a paranoid delusional fantasy land of — literal — mental impairment.

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Nerds: America’s Greatest National Security Threat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQpD9LolO-k

Meet Alex Jones, renown radio host and knuckle-dragger laureate of Texas. Fluent in hyperbole and equipped with a working knowledge of demagogic gobbledygook, his latest theory is that nerds, not a nuclear Iran or paralyzing amounts of poverty, are the greatest threat to the United States’ wellbeing. Enjoy, if you can.

The Best Gun Control Cartoons And Memes

Unless you live under a rock, you know by now that the United States is entrenched amid a flurry of talks–OK, more like ceaseless, senseless back-and-forth shrieking–re: what the hell we’re going to do about these instruments whose sole purpose is to kill others. The right, blinded by its intransigent ideological piety (but only when it’s convenient), claims that the right to own a gun trumps the right to, well, not be shot by one. In the meantime, though, political cartoonists and internet enthusiasts alike have been producing some great stuff. Here’s a sampling of the best gun control cartoons and memes on the internet:

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Don’t Want To Pay Your Bills? Use “Debt-B-Gone!”

OK, so comparing government bill payment to household bill payment isn’t really fair, but that flawed comparison was originally the austerity-wielding GOP’s bag.