Far East Cynic

The 50 worst places to get your news.

Regardless of your political persuasion. The list that is given below is a rogues gallery of misinformation, diatribe, uninformed commentary, factually inaccurate reporting-and general all around mean spiritedness that can be found in the civilized word. When you hear someone saying, ” I was just reading or watching (fill in

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Another bad deal from our Galtian overlords

While most of Congress was bending over backwards to suck Grover Norquists kneecaps, you probably missed this little tidbit from our legislative betters on Capitol Hill:  Every right-thinking person abhors child pornography. To combat it, legislators have brought through committee a poorly conceived, over-broad Congressional bill, The Protecting Children from

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History as allegory

A commenter at Sullivan’s blog has it nailed down: I think it helps to understand that, for right-wing populists, this thing we call “history” is less about real people who did real things in the real world, and more like just the Bible Part II. It’s a myth that can

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Too stupid to be allowed to live……

John Cole has it right. The current crop in Congress is positively evil: Considering they haven’t created one job since taking office, and haven’t so much as advanced one plan to create jobs since they took office, and, mind you, presided over the worst economic collapse since the Depression, it’s

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Milking the Golden Cow…….

As I noted in my previous post-one family from a Naval Base in Japan seems to not know when to shut up. 10,000 DOLLARS! YGTBSM! Let me give you a tip Mrs Cash-you had best keep a low profile when you return to Japan. This story is going viral among

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Happy now?

So, are you worthless f*cKs happy now that you have had your pointless gesture? What follows is a retelling of what we all already know:  health care reform repeal is a ticket back to a system that was long ago recognized as a disaster, a ride powered by zombie lies

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Rejecting the equivalence argument Part II. (Also Part II of understanding the foolishness).

Thanks to this project and the renewed education it has given me into EXCEL spreadsheets, the worth of an human being, and the real nature of corporate indifference to the needs of their employees ( Author’s note-in this case it also applies to govermental entities), I have not had a

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Rejecting the equivalence argument.-Part I

This post is a direct response to Phib’s post at his place. When I get this project over-I am going to do a long post on why the argument that heated political rhetoric does not beget violence is wrong-and forcefully attack those who think they get some sort of a

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What they really want……

When they lobby for stupid tax cuts: If you ever want to know that our tri-corner hat wearing friends are not serious about reducing the deficit-it is when they support these bozo’s. By the way-you now much extra cash I get from the Bush tax cuts? Only around 800 dollars.

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