BLAMING SARAH
DOWN IN THE TRENCHES OF THE CULTURE WAR, it’s frequently observed that concepts like nuance, like irony, are subtleties of perception the ignorant neither appreciate or understand.
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Fruits Of Teh Crazy Tree
Mugshot of Jared Loughner after massacring six and wounding fourteen When asked if his daughter, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), currently in a medically induced coma after taking a bullet to the brain, had any political enemies, Spencer Giffords replied: “Yeah, the whole Tea Party.” While at present there is no direct line of evidence linking Jared Loughner to the Tea …
The Dunning–Kruger Effect
From Wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This …
Afutilestan XIII: The Year In Review
As Commander in Chief wanna be Sarah Palin might put it: How’s that surge thingy workin out for ya, Mr. President? Not so good, as The Wall Street Journal reports this week: Internal United Nations maps show a marked deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan during this year’s fighting season, countering the Obama administration’s optimistic assessments of military progress …
Bachmann Appointed To Intel Committee
The inmates are truly taking over the asylum Bin Laden must be dancing the Muslim equivalent of the jig: Bachmann lands slot on Intel panel Rep. Michele Bachmann, one of the most outspoken conservatives in the House, has won an appointment to the secretive House Intelligence Committee. The move by incoming Speaker John Boehner to put Bachmann on the panel …
RAND PAUL: UNPLUGGED & UNHINGED
Why do I get the feeling that this guy is juggling hatchets inside his head?
Thank You, Teabaggers (Update)
The original Blue Dog scold, Huckleberry Hound In yesterday’s political tsunami that swept the Dems out of control of the House of Representatives, a silver lining in that dark cloud is the evisceration of the Blue Dog Caucus that was the brainchild of President’s Obama‘s former Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel (now trying to ply his bs to the residents …
