You don’t know the power of a grassroots letter writing campaign, Luke.

via the folks at EndCiv.

Life imitates art, and don’t let anyone tell you differently.

For more on Star Wars political philosophy debates, check out the recently minted Mep Report 115.

For those of you who missed it last night, here’s the outburst during Obama’s healthcare address that is getting all the attention in today’s press…

Freddie, how could you…

If you don’t think the US government is flawless, Republicans don’t want you in the administration. Except, you know, if we’re talking about government programs.

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Absolute genius.  The Onion is on a roll, people.

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This is cross-posted from my blog, but I think it’s relevant since Russ has recently been egging on my naysaying. For the “wispy, ethereal” Mepper, I believe you’ll find a lot of hard numbers in here.

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Unlike many of his colleagues, Barney Frank has no patience for pharmaceutical industry flunkie attempts to disrupt a public debate forum.

Link via Wonkette.

A genuinely frightening story from the Council for Secular Humanism, revealed that in several meetings with high level foreign officials, “Governor Bush,” revealed that the Iraq invasion was part of a fulfillment of the biblical apocalypse and that,

“This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use the conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

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Sorry about the lack of funny on this one; that’s  assuming of course that you’ve found all my past posts as funny.  Anyway, I wanted to post a quick note about hatred and the many faces it can take.

Yesterday, I was walking my daughter to a playdate in a local park and I saw something that reminded me of a memory that’s never left me.

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