A Tale of Two Stories
May 1st
imnotbob.com
May 1st
“Torture is morally reprehensible. Christians, who serve a...”
— Gabriel Salguero
— Gabriel Salguero
May 1st
“Yes, he stole $65 billion from some already quite wealthy...”
— Michael Moore
— Michael Moore
May 1st
Tom Toles
May 1st
“Personally, I think trying to prosecute people for this...”
— daggatt
— daggatt
May 1st
REMIX now ccFree
May 1st
“So the one group of people who had their very own “hero”...”
— Josh Brown
— Josh Brown
May 1st
The Story of With 1
May 1st
“I used to believe in Reformed theology. I now believe in...”
— From the Pew
— From the Pew
May 1st
The Right Way to Title a Book
May 1st
Watch
Congressman reads longest list of sex acts on House floor
May 1st
On 6th Anniversary of 'Mission Accomplished'...
May 1st
“A fixed term limit would end these perverse incentives. Give...”
— Ezra Klein
— Ezra Klein
May 1st
“Consider this question: Is it ever justifiable to...”
— White Evangelicals for Torture
— White Evangelicals for Torture
May 1st
What is a computer?
May 1st
Churchgoers more likely to back torture
Apr 30th
Tom Toles
Apr 30th
Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat
Apr 30th
“…in the past, the paranoid stylings of media ideologues like...”
— Sara Robinson
— Sara Robinson
Apr 30th
A Solar Idea
Apr 30th
Texas, Run by Secessionist Guv, Has Received...
Apr 30th
Party of No(body)?
Apr 30th
“The point isn’t MICROSOFT SUXXX0RS!!! AAPL ROOLZ!!!, though...”
— !=
— !=
Apr 30th
“The United States invented the bomb. The United States...”
— Andrew J. Bacevich
— Andrew J. Bacevich
Apr 30th
Clay Bennett
Apr 30th
“The Internet derives its disruptive quality from a very...”
— David S. Isenberg
— David S. Isenberg
Apr 30th
10 Reasons Why I Hate American Idol
Apr 30th
“People think either that they’ll die before the bill...”
— Wendell Berry
— Wendell Berry
Apr 29th
“Evangelicals immediately claim Prejean as their new...”
— The Hypocrisy of The...
— The Hypocrisy of The...
Apr 29th
The Secret to a Successful Blog
Apr 29th
Pastoral Scene of the Gallant North
Apr 29th
Pavel Constantin
Apr 29th
“For leftists, Obama has been a total bust. He’s escalated...”
— Pinter to Obama: “Smash the...
— Pinter to Obama: “Smash the...
Apr 29th
Tumblr Photo Post Not Found
It was there, not it’s not. And when I attempted to repost, it still doesn’t show. ...
Apr 29th
GDP Falls 6.1%
Apr 29th
The Joy of Tech
Apr 29th
A Wall Street trader tells all
Apr 29th
“The United States isn’t run along Social Darwinist lines,...”
— Matthew Yglesias
— Matthew Yglesias
Apr 29th
You've bought your last car
Apr 29th
Watch
Prince of Peace - God of War
Apr 28th
“If President Obama is in fact as progressive as many hoped,...”
— Sarah van Gelder
— Sarah van Gelder
Apr 28th
“People who are 100 percent Democrats or 100 percent...”
— EJ Montini
— EJ Montini
Apr 28th
“In most cities in the USA, especially in our current...”
— the Jesus Manifesto
— the Jesus Manifesto
Apr 28th
Matt Bors
Apr 28th
“Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent,...”
— Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen...
— Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen...
Apr 28th
Swine-flu outbreak could be linked to...
Apr 28th
Inventing the Future in Iowa
Apr 28th
Dave Granlund
Apr 28th
Uncle Sam does NOT believe in photoshop
Apr 28th
“The reasons for [Rick] Warren’s success are probably...”
— Psychology Today
— Psychology Today
Apr 28th
“… private control over media and communication is not a...”
— Robert McChesney
— Robert McChesney
Apr 28th
Tom Tomorrow
Apr 28th
“…the Post Office began in the United States primarily as a...”
— Robert McChesney
— Robert McChesney
Apr 28th
“Tools don’t get socially interesting until they get...”
— Clay Shirky
— Clay Shirky
Apr 28th
Fsck Yahoo!
Geocities rescued. So Yahoo, cowards that they are, announced in the most quiet and subtle manner...
Apr 28th
xkcd
Apr 27th
“The food the industry is selling is much more powerful than...”
— David A. Kessler
— David A. Kessler
Apr 27th
“Either you are very spiritual but don’t care so much for...”
— the Jesus Manifesto
— the Jesus Manifesto
Apr 27th
Frederick Deligne
Apr 27th
“He also argued at length that the provisional,...”
— Saint Gasoline
— Saint Gasoline
Apr 27th
“Barack Obama has squandered his presidency. He had a...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Apr 27th
The next frontier of Internet legal battles
Apr 27th
Tom Toles
Apr 27th
“People are increasingly scared of the newest incarnation of...”
— VIRAL FLU: EARTH’S OLDEST...
— VIRAL FLU: EARTH’S OLDEST...
Apr 27th
Obama's Secret Plan
Apr 27th
Iceland Kicks Out the Conservatives
Apr 27th
“…the economy is scaring the hell out of viewers, and...”
— Reese Schonfeld
— Reese Schonfeld
Apr 27th
Who Would Jesus Torture?
Apr 26th
The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means
Apr 26th
“Perhaps one day the world, our world, won’t be upside down,...”
— Eduardo Galeano
— Eduardo Galeano
Apr 26th
How Would You Fix the Economy?
Dear Mr. President: Please find below my suggestion for fixing America’s economy. Instead of...
Apr 26th
“Contrary to what many parents tell their children, talent...”
— Robert H. Frank
— Robert H. Frank
Apr 26th
Watch
I, for one, welcome our new flying robot penguin overlords
Apr 26th
Searching for Truth
Apr 26th
“Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the...”
— Bill Maher
— Bill Maher
Apr 26th
Watch
How the Economy is Controlled
Apr 26th
“…Geocities — the MySpace of 1997-1999. Geocities was the...”
— Scott Rosenberg
— Scott Rosenberg
Apr 25th
Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web...
Apr 25th
“I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals...”
— Yeny Gregorio Dávila
— Yeny Gregorio Dávila
Apr 25th
Human Washing Machines
Apr 25th
Obama's Blackberry
Apr 25th
“What the Obama Administration doesn’t seem to understand is...”
— Douglas Rushkoff
— Douglas Rushkoff
Apr 25th
4 Things to Consider Before You Try to Join...
Apr 25th
Apptitude for Driving
Apr 25th
“Man weiss nicht was er will und will nicht was er weiss.”
— Robert Musil
— Robert Musil
Apr 25th
“The typical American church model, though, has one person -...”
— From the Pew
— From the Pew
Apr 25th
Testing a Theory of Modern Slavery
Apr 25th
Another brief respite from the Tumblr...
Aside from some sporadic phone tweepage, this internet spot will be silent for the next few days as...
Apr 23rd
Watch
The Stockholm Syndrome
Apr 23rd
“…if public libraries did not exist, would it be possible to...”
— Terminally Incoherent
— Terminally Incoherent
Apr 23rd
GeoCities to Shutdown; What Was GeoCities,...
Apr 23rd
Matt Bors
Apr 23rd
Brain Gain
Apr 23rd
“The Reagan Revolution of the 1980s was the third...”
— Thom Hartmann
— Thom Hartmann
Apr 23rd
Today is Michael Moore’s birthday
Apr 23rd
How Bush's Torture Helped al-Qaeda
Apr 23rd
imnotbob.com
Apr 23rd
“The problem is that reality doesn’t live in the databases....”
— Aaron Swartz
— Aaron Swartz
Apr 23rd
First 100 Days Retrospective: Ford, Carter,...
Apr 23rd
“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural...”
— Thomas Paine
— Thomas Paine
Apr 22nd
“…with Fox News running all these “anti-tax tea parties” how...”
— David Brin
— David Brin
Apr 22nd
Don’t Sue Me, Bro
Apr 22nd
The threat of bigness
Apr 22nd
“The entertainment industry wants to retreat to the comfort...”
— Cory Doctorow
— Cory Doctorow
Apr 22nd
Of Course It Was Torture
Apr 22nd
“…I’m sick to frigging death of people – self-identifiedly...”
— Upturned Earth
— Upturned Earth
Apr 22nd
Peter Brookes
Apr 22nd
“So they tortured Gitmo detainees to get information, which...”
— The Agitator
— The Agitator
Apr 22nd
“For years, people have felt they have been hitting their...”
— Amy Goodman
— Amy Goodman
Apr 22nd
The propaganda wars on torture have entered...
Apr 22nd
RJ Matson
Apr 22nd
“The day that senior Bush officials, like Bush and Cheney...”
— Dennis Perrin
— Dennis Perrin
Apr 22nd
“It is becoming clear that people were tortured so that the...”
— Larisa Alexandrovna
— Larisa Alexandrovna
Apr 22nd
Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida...
Apr 22nd
“How far our country has strayed from its founding ideals!...”
— American Creation
— American Creation
Apr 22nd
Cheney on Waterboarding
Apr 22nd
Pat Oliphant
Apr 22nd
“There should be little doubt from American history that we...”
— John McCain
— John McCain
Apr 22nd
“The top officials he briefed did not learn that...”
— NYTimes.com
— NYTimes.com
Apr 22nd
“In Iraq, time leaves bloody marks upon each day of the...”
— Dahr Jamail
— Dahr Jamail
Apr 21st
Why I Got Arrested on Good Friday
Apr 21st
nakedpastor
Apr 21st
“Progressive religion, and the ways it is changing, must be...”
— Diana Butler Bass
— Diana Butler Bass
Apr 21st
“When the web and the first browsers were built —...”
— Jason Kottke
— Jason Kottke
Apr 21st
xkcd
Apr 21st
“The dilemma posed by consumerism, including the Christian...”
— Skye Jethani
— Skye Jethani
Apr 21st
Jackie Chan's Jab at Freedom
Apr 21st
RJ Matson
Apr 21st
“I used to think Twitter would never catch on in the...”
— MattMaroon.com
— MattMaroon.com
Apr 21st
“Once a profession in which business was subservient, the...”
— Jack Bogle
— Jack Bogle
Apr 21st
What Starts with an F
Apr 21st
“Many newspaper people seem to be under the impression that...”
— Scott Rosenberg
— Scott Rosenberg
Apr 21st
“When people tell me that we are or have been a Christian...”
— Brian D. McLaren
— Brian D. McLaren
Apr 21st
Tom Tomorrow
Apr 21st
“First off, the Dark Ages were not dark. The Late Middle...”
— Douglas Rushkoff
— Douglas Rushkoff
Apr 21st
“I have now lived through three major episodes in my life...”
— Charles Pierce
— Charles Pierce
Apr 21st
Watch
Family Guy: Bag of Weed
Apr 20th
“Argument two: the Kindle destroys the community of readers...”
— Melt Your Kindle
— Melt Your Kindle
Apr 20th
Pray Against Poverty
Apr 20th
He makes $1 million crowdsourcing sources
Apr 20th
“Carnival is over. Commerce has been overheating markets and...”
— Bono
— Bono
Apr 20th
Photos that Changed the World
Apr 20th
“Universal surveillance is the first step towards a Big...”
— Big Brother is Watching
— Big Brother is Watching
Apr 20th
“Listen, if you could be Draconian and reduce drug use by...”
— David Simon
— David Simon
Apr 20th
Joel Pett
Apr 20th
“So Denny Hastert was helping the Turkish lobby with...”
— at-Largely
— at-Largely
Apr 20th
“So, what people of good intention and progressive...”
— Jim Kunstler
— Jim Kunstler
Apr 20th
62 Trillion Spam E-mails = ?
Apr 20th
“You can oppose specific kinds of “reform” -...”
— David Sirota
— David Sirota
Apr 20th
Why the “Left Behind” series should be left...
Apr 20th
“This government lied about their belief that all men were...”
— Rev. Jeremiah Wright
— Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Apr 20th
Why We Should Get Rid of the White House...
Apr 20th
DanzigerCartoons.com
Apr 20th
“A conservative blog recently described me as...”
— Exploring Our Matrix
— Exploring Our Matrix
Apr 20th
McCain's Hometown Sheriff Ditches McCain For...
Apr 20th
A System From Hell
Apr 20th
Watch
Izzy Award speeches on the political media
Apr 19th
A Fill-in-the-Blanks Template for the Next Mass Shooting
Apr 19th
“Narcissism is just the user interface for nihilism, of...”
— Nicholas Carr
— Nicholas Carr
Apr 19th
Watch
The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove
Apr 19th
“Predator drones armed with laser-guided Hellfire missiles...”
— Eric Stoner
— Eric Stoner
Apr 19th
Hobby economy
Apr 19th
Watch
Palestinians mourn demonstrator’s death
Apr 19th
“Why, madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my...”
— Abraham Lincoln
— Abraham Lincoln
Apr 18th
Watch
Tumblr and David Karp (via pop17, hanzahar)
Apr 18th
Obama Reveals High Speed Rail Plans
Apr 18th
Israel stands ready to bomb Iran's nuclear...
Apr 18th
Why Aneesh Chopra is a Great Choice for...
Apr 18th
“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men...”
— Benjamin Franklin
— Benjamin Franklin
Apr 18th
Best Slideshow Making Tool?
Apr 18th
Religion vs politics
Apr 18th
“Or how about the four or five billion dollars we spent...”
— Matt Taibbi
— Matt Taibbi
Apr 17th
“Google isn’t responsible for saving the newspaper industry...”
— Reflections of a Newsosaur
— Reflections of a Newsosaur
Apr 17th
Would you pay $1 a month for Facebook?
A lot of people I ask say they’d pay $1 a month… No.
Apr 17th
Watch
Nationwide Tax Protests
Apr 17th
Steve Sack
Apr 17th
“In my mind there is a difference between panic survival and...”
— Timber Butte Homestead
— Timber Butte Homestead
Apr 17th
“Individuals who have lived in the US for years can be...”
— Jailed Without Justice:...
— Jailed Without Justice:...
Apr 17th
1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India
Apr 17th
A Thought about Dying and Going to a Better Place
Apr 17th
Is the Bible Inerrant?
Apr 17th
Where are the liberal Christians?
Growing up Evangelical Perhaps one day it will be more popular to say “yes I am a Christian...
Apr 17th
Watch
I, for one, welcome our new robot-ant overlords…
Apr 17th
The War on Short Yellows
Apr 17th
Jim Day
Apr 17th
“In the United States, what Obama did yesterday is simply not...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Apr 17th
“It is hard to remember that two years earlier Obama was...”
— Danny Schechter
— Danny Schechter
Apr 17th
“Why is the pro-choice camp the only side trying to come up...”
— Cristina Page
— Cristina Page
Apr 17th
Watch
The Flaming Bacon Lance of Death, from Theo Gray’s book “Mad Science”
Apr 16th
Playing Twister...to the right
Apr 16th
Limbaugh's Dirty Little Secret of Radio...
Apr 16th
“The vast majority of the income gains in the United States...”
— Dean Baker
— Dean Baker
Apr 16th
Margulies
Apr 16th
“The irony of these protests is that federal revenues as a...”
— Bruce Bartlett
— Bruce Bartlett
Apr 16th
Carter Conservatism
Apr 16th
“…if I were the commander-in-chief I could find no better...”
— James Wellman
— James Wellman
Apr 16th
Emad Hajjaj
Apr 16th
“Somehow our American church culture has largely been led to...”
— cramer comments
— cramer comments
Apr 16th
Americans' Tax Burden Near Historic Low
Apr 16th
Iraq air raids hit mostly women and children
Apr 16th
Scenes from a Tea Party
Apr 16th
“Here’s my rule of thumb: Whenever the defense and...”
— Robert Koehler
— Robert Koehler
Apr 16th
Twitter is Done. Tumblr is Next.
Apr 15th
A Short Citizen's Guide to Kooks, Demagogues,...
Apr 15th
The rich buy the stupid and manufacture a...
Apr 15th
Matt Bors
Apr 15th
“We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand. We...”
— President Obama
— President Obama
Apr 15th
Save the Rich
Apr 15th
David Fitzsimmons
Apr 15th
“You’re protesting federal income taxes, but, drooling...”
— Stephen Suh
— Stephen Suh
Apr 15th
“We’re used to the future turning out differently than we...”
— Clay Shirky
— Clay Shirky
Apr 15th
Paying Taxes
Apr 15th
“The real Boston Tea Party was a protest against huge...”
— Thom Hartmann
— Thom Hartmann
Apr 15th
“If the Tea Baggers had been alive in 1773, they’d have...”
— Lance Mannion
— Lance Mannion
Apr 15th
Who deserves more blame for the global...
Apr 15th
Tom Tomorrow
Apr 14th
I wonder if people have really thought...
A Warning About The Tea Parties A number of people I have spoken with are planning to attend a...
Apr 14th
“Indeed, thanks to the very people who are today petulantly...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Apr 14th
Flatulance-twittering chair
Apr 14th
“As an epistemic libertarian I believe that disciplines are...”
— Nassim Taleb (via kvasir)
— Nassim Taleb (via kvasir)
Apr 14th
Matt Bors
Apr 14th
Top 10 Beer Myths
Apr 14th
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world...”
— Jimi Hendrix
— Jimi Hendrix
Apr 14th
“Some intellectual prophets have declared the end of the age...”
— Heinz Pagels
— Heinz Pagels
Apr 14th
Picking and Choosing -- Following the Bible
Apr 14th
Bob Boze Bell
Apr 14th
How Bush Ruined the Free Market
Apr 14th
Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie...
Apr 14th
“You can learn a lot from campaign contributions. In fact,...”
— Noam Chomsky
— Noam Chomsky
Apr 14th
Israelis’ invulnerable, 60-tonne robot bulldozer force...
Apr 14th
“Since Reagan’s, Bush’s, Clinton’s, and Bush’s serial...”
— Thom Hartmann
— Thom Hartmann
Apr 14th
“Indeed, the purpose of all our evolving neuro-circuitry is...”
— Joe Bageant
— Joe Bageant
Apr 14th
Steve Benson
Apr 13th
What Type of Web Commenter Are You?
Apr 13th
“If the company that owned the rescued ship wasn’t a US...”
— Global Guerrillas
— Global Guerrillas
Apr 13th
“Dwight Eisenhower alludes to the idea that the diverting of...”
— Rod Davis
— Rod Davis
Apr 13th
mashable.com
Apr 13th
“In fact, if you go back to 1989 and 1990, it’s extremely...”
— Noam Chomsky
— Noam Chomsky
Apr 13th
“On the agenda in the second quarter of ‘09 are ominous...”
— Jim Kunstler
— Jim Kunstler
Apr 13th
Wall Street Salary Caps Drive Away Assholes
Apr 13th
Joe Heller
Apr 13th
Why Cable ISP Capping is the New DRM, and...
Apr 13th
“The battles that we fought in the Eighties now, we were...”
— James Dobson
— James Dobson
Apr 13th
Citizens held as illegal immigrants
Apr 13th
“The problem with high pay in the financial industry...”
— Robert Frank
— Robert Frank
Apr 12th
You are being lied to about pirates
Apr 12th
“The best way to respond to what-aboutery is to state a...”
— Johann Hari
— Johann Hari
Apr 12th
The Joy of Tech
Apr 12th
Glenn Beck's 'Liberal Fascism Hour': Revising...
Apr 12th
“Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as...”
— Thomas Paine
— Thomas Paine
Apr 12th
Bombing Civilians: An American Tradition
Apr 12th
“Ok, let’s walk through this. F.D.R. headed up the war...”
— The Daily Doubter
— The Daily Doubter
Apr 12th
Polar bear attacks woman at Berlin Zoo
Apr 12th
Jeremy Nell
Apr 12th
Fox News: An ethics free zone...
Apr 12th
A simple overview of the Twitter StalkDaily...
Apr 12th
“Who was most responsible for the torture during Bush’s...”
— Paul Cantor
— Paul Cantor
Apr 12th
Paid Shilling Comes to Twitter
Apr 11th
Watch
InsaniTea (via kateoplis, langer)
Apr 11th
Is lying a moral issue, Reverend?
Apr 11th
Watch
Interview Fail
Apr 11th
“The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished,...”
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
Apr 11th
Are Bankruptcy Laws Too Tough?
Apr 11th
Cardow
Apr 11th
“The R.F.C.’s have grown up, too. They really aren’t requests...”
— Stephen D. Crocker
— Stephen D. Crocker
Apr 11th
Clio Takes a Look at 2009 Tea Parties
Apr 11th
10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates
Apr 10th
bartcop.com
Apr 10th
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their...”
— Plato
— Plato
Apr 10th
“If you love people who love you, what credit is that to you?...”
— small home, mobbing, a...
— small home, mobbing, a...
Apr 10th
Saving newspapers requires hiring, not...
Apr 10th
“Of course Jesus wasn’t a nice person! You don’t crucify nice...”
— Prof. John Stackhouse
— Prof. John Stackhouse
Apr 10th
TwitterSheep
Apr 10th
Tumblr Answers?
marco wrote: I’ll have you know that the Answers feature is completely original and has nothing to...
Apr 10th
nakedpastor
Apr 10th
Rachel Corrie's Birthday
Apr 10th
“With the exception of North Carolina (where another...”
— Susan Jacoby
— Susan Jacoby
Apr 10th
Watch
Mr. Deity Episode 2: Mr. Deity and the Really Big Favor
Apr 10th
Do you pick up hitchhikers?
Friday is for Friends Why or why not?
Apr 10th
“Having lived in a country in which the socialist party has...”
— Confessions of an Accidental...
— Confessions of an Accidental...
Apr 10th
Matt Bors
Apr 10th
“…the doctrine of biblical inerrancy has the effect of...”
— Eric Reitan
— Eric Reitan
Apr 10th
“Ponnuru offers, I think, not only the best, but also the...”
— Ezra Klein
— Ezra Klein
Apr 10th
A Plea to President Obama: Don't Bankrupt...
Apr 10th
“The cross is laid on every Christian. The first...”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Apr 10th
“President Obama pledged to restore the rule of law. But the...”
— Bruce Fein
— Bruce Fein
Apr 9th
3D Printing and Self Replicating Machines in Your Living...
Apr 9th
China
Apr 9th
Giant in the Playground Games
Apr 9th
Somali women flocking to port in hope of...
Apr 9th
“Can I have some money now?”
Homer: Welcome to the internet my friend, how can I help you?CBG: I’m interested in upgrading my 28.8 kilobaud internet connection to a one point five megabit fiber-optic T-1 line. Will you be able to provide an IP router that’s compatible with my token ring ethernet LAN configuration?
Homer: (long pause) Can I have some money now?
Apr 9th
mattbors.com
Apr 9th
“God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society...”
— Dorothy L. Sayers
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Apr 9th
“Seeing newspapers fall apart brings me joy. Not for those...”
— Reflections of a Newsosaur
— Reflections of a Newsosaur
Apr 9th
newsdissector.com
Apr 9th
“To try to put 20-30 pages into a nutshell, the financial...”
— Kevin Phillips
— Kevin Phillips
Apr 9th
Watch
Zinn on class in America
Apr 9th
“Hypocrisy is on full parade here. Where was the outrage from...”
— Faith and Reason in the Notre...
— Faith and Reason in the Notre...
Apr 9th
U2's manager wants the power to cut off your...
Apr 9th