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The Diaper Pail's Blog – September 2010 Archive (7)

Quote Of The Day

From Matt Taibbi's excellent Rolling Stone article on the Teabaggers (Tea and Crackers, 10/15):

A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked…

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Added by The Diaper Pail on September 29, 2010 at 9:30am — 8 Comments

The Internets...The Final Frontier...

These are the voyages of the starship Privacy. And I think they're about over:

U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet…

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Added by The Diaper Pail on September 27, 2010 at 7:53am — 7 Comments

How It's Done

Like this.

Added by The Diaper Pail on September 25, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

In recent years, MSNBC has apparently decided that there's a market (which they can make money from) being sort of a liberal counterweight to the unfair and imbalanced GOP advocacy of FAUX "News." I say "sort of" because in reality, MSNBC isn't at all the liberal counterweight to FOX. Yes, their nightly lineup has consisted more and more of liberals and progressives - which is somewhat of a counterweight to FAUX's lineup - but FAUX's advocacy continues 24 hours a day, even (especially) during… Continue

Added by The Diaper Pail on September 22, 2010 at 11:19am — No Comments

In Which I Sense A Pattern Emerging And Don't Like It Much

In August of 2009 - a scant seven months after President Obama's inauguration - White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, in a closed-door session with progressive activist groups, reacted to news that they were considering launching attack ads against Blue Dog Democrats who were balking at supporting Obama's health care overhaul by stating flatly and colorfully "…

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Added by The Diaper Pail on September 18, 2010 at 1:00pm — 15 Comments

A Thought Exercise

Every once in a great while, I'm not a complete dumbass. Like, for example, when MommyMonster and I were cleaning out the guest room closet (AKA: the Pit of Doom) last weekend, and I came across a periodical I'd obviously saved because I thought (at the time) it'd be interesting/relevant in the future, perhaps. The periodical was Mother Jones, the (publication) date was September, 2000. The article title?

The…

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Added by The Diaper Pail on September 10, 2010 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments