Gizmodo : If these people would spend even some of the energy that they spend on these comic books, reading the Bible, well no high hopes here. They have turned comic book characters into idols, and worship them they do! Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. It is time to put away the silly vanities and turn ...

He just couldn't leave it alone .... Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government "stop raising our taxes." That is outrageous! How will we Colored People ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! The tea party expects coloreds to be productive members of society? Astounding. TPM says it best: Again, for the record: this how an official ...

This one might get away : "They make more money off of race than any slave trader ever. It's time groups like the NAACP went to the trash heap of history where they belong with all the other vile racist groups that emerged in our history," - Mark Williams, a national spokesman for the Tea Party Express. He might come back for it though. I don't think the bait gets any better.

Oh this is fantastic . The NAACP has passed a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement. The resolution was approved in a vote by more than 2,000 delegates at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Kansas City. Versions of the resolution condemned "explicitly racist behavior" in the Tea Party movement and called on people to "repudiate" what it described as racist elements of the...

Sad. George Steinbrenner has died . The snark is in the comments. Enjoy. I really don't have any particular beef with the Yankees. Being a god fearin' sout sider, my baseball ire is directed at far more worthy targets, and at 39-50, having suspended their 'star pitcher', and attendance amongst by the surburban masses dwindling , it's been a good year. That and my Sox are in first place.

Downloadsquad : Other Windows XP users are not as fortunate; these are mainly people sitting in gray, depressing cubicles, with restrictive IT departments and massive corporate-wide Windows installations. Up until today, these cubicled masses had some hope for a friendlier computing environment. After all, XP wasn't going to be supported forever, right? Wrong. Today Microsoft announced Windows 7 users will be able to downgrade to XP at any point during Windows 7's life cycle. For...

TDB : Meghan McCain: I told my father that you made a comment about Obama’s tanning-booth tax, and he knew who you were, and I was like, “Well, you should Twitter her.” So what did you think when he did that? Snooki Polizzi: I thought it was pretty frickin’ awesome because I voted for McCain. So the fact that he actually acknowledged like what I was saying about the tanning booth… It was crazy because I never thought, like, what I was saying on the show, that he...

Oh man. This is guaranteed to generate many laughs . SAN FRANCISCO — In a tongue-in-cheek call for immigration reform, farm workers are teaming up with comedian Stephen Colbert to challenge unemployed Americans: Come on, take our jobs. Farm workers are tired of being blamed by politicians and anti-immigrant activists for taking work that should go to Americans and dragging down the economy, said Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers of America. So the group i...

I probably spent the best part of the nationalized health care debate listening to this idea that 'Canada does it, therefore it works'. A lot of conservatives challenged it from the idea that, 'nuh uh, it doesn't work'. Even dating back to the mid to late Bush administration, we were being treated to random guy who knows a Canadian who moved here because the waiting list for 4 stitches was 11 months. Likewise, hard left types love to bring up random canuck who they know who randomly caught Eb...

Something else I came across in my efforts to figure out the anti-unemployment angle. Pretty brutal : First taking a big bite out of Barry O: The good news is we have avoided another Great Depression. But it seems ill-advised for Barack Obama to stand up on a Friday morning in early July and say that the economy is "headed in the right direction" (even if, as he said, "we are not headed there fast enough") and to highlight "the sixth straight month of job ...

Really funny.  Cuz it's true.         

I've written about the tendency of the derailed right to bash unemployed folks here and here . Truthfully, I still find the idea totally inexplicable. Politically it just doesn't seem right. For giggles I put this together: Top X states for unemployment, red/blue coding of the rate based on '08's presidential election results. Obviously, this is a 'broad' look and it's not geared for detail digging, but rather was something I kicked together to see if there was a meaningful pattern...

Huffpo's front page right now has a gigantic picture of Steele with a link that says "War Within the GOP". Link goes to this : Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) the beloved libertarian, former presidential candidate and longtime skeptic of foreign military entanglements, put out a statement on Sunday congratulating Steele for having the courage to, as he put it, tell the truth on the Afghan war: I would like to congratulate Michael Steele for his leadership on one of the most...

This is going to be fun : The National Rifle Association is in unfamiliar terrain on the conservative firing range this election year: It’s the target. The conservative Netroots are abuzz over the possibility that the NRA may endorse Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). This would be the second major slight by the NRA for political conservatives — the gun group also just negotiated a big exemption on a campaign finance bill loathed by the right. Conservatives say there’s a ...

From a current project: Let's just say you have about 100 rows of this: And you want to show it in a way that doesn't give people a total headache. This kind of works. There's a few things worth mentioning here: 1. The sparkline is showing grey for 08, white for 09, and grey for the available 2010 data. It looks a little off balance because I don't have a crystal ball to tell you what the rest of the 2010 data will be:) 2. The red and blue marks indicate lows and highs r...