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SEC Employees Were Masturbating to Kiddie Porn While Your Economy Tanked And the sad thing is, it’s not a joke: Two video files found on [a gay SEC employee’s] computer were referred to the FBI because investigators suspected that the men depicted having sex in them were underage. Some people may object that “gay SEC […]

Late Zombie Health Care Updates: Executive Orders, Whip Counts, Slurs, Epithets and More Wholesome Fun! UPDATE: Stupak SELLS OUT! Yoest Declares ‘PRO-LIFE EMERGENCY’!

Please visit our LIVE CHAT! UPDATE 6:30 p.m. ET: Just posted this at the American Spectator blog: You’ve probably never heard of Dan Benishek, but he’s a Republican running against Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), who struck a deal with Nancy Pelosi that is believed to be the decisive vote to pass ObamaCare. More than 1,700 people have already joined […]

Woman Gang-Raped by Illegal Aliens

Raping the women American rapists won’t rape:  WALDORF, Md. – The Charles County Sheriff’s Office has charged six illegal immigrants with first-degree rape and false imprisonment for allegedly holding a woman hostage for hours and sexually assaulting her — and two more assailants are being sought, investigators said. . . . More than a dozen […]

Why Do Charles Johnson’s Beliefs Keep Turning Out to Be Delusional?

Professor Glenn Reynolds has linked my essay about narcissism, scapegoating and paranoia. Speaking of paranoid narcissists, remember when Charles Johnson called the Pentagon shooter an “anti-government right wing extremist of the Ron Paulian persuasion”?  Wrong again, Chuckles. John Patrick Bedell was a dopehead peacenik loser of the “No Blood for Oil” persuasion who slowly descended into paranoid psychosis: Bedell . . . had vigorously […]

Whatever Happened to Crazy?

The endless theorizing about Pentagon shooter Patrick Bedell inspires James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal to observe:  We suppose if Cindy Sheehan ever picked up a gun and started shooting, the media would describe her as a “right-wing extremist” too. It inspired me to write a 1,900-word essay based on Chris Rock’s question: “Whatever happened to […]

One Bong Hit Away From Murder: Warning Signs of Psycho-Libertarianism

“[E]veryone knows that marijuana is a gateway drug to libertarianism.” — Tom Maguire, e-mail to Professor Glenn Reynolds The Psycho-Libertarian Dopehead Menace continues to stalk the blogosphere and everybody’s starting to catch a contact high. Meanwhile, a report from the Los Angeles Times raises the question: Which came first, the heavy marijuana use or the murderous […]

Quit Smoking Dope or You’ll Go on a Psycho Rampage, You Libertarian Freaks

Young people who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as likely to have psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions than people who have never used the drug, scientists said on Monday. — Reuters, March 1 Pinto: I won’t go schizo, will I? Jennings: It’s a distinct possibility. — National Lampoon’s Animal […]

Send the Body to Keith Olbermann

So says Professor Glenn Reynolds, in not quite so many words. The Christian Science Monitor cites certain predictable sources to gin up speculation that the Pentagon shooter was motivated by “right-wing extremism,” but . . . eh, not so much:  Internet research shows that the guy was a 9/11 Truther and an anti-Bush nut case. So much […]

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