Right wing talk radio has become the last bastion for the eternally self-deluded in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Modern Bush Republican ideology has been a colossal disaster. In the familiar world of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh’s radio-reality, down is still up and that is just the salve for the sucking chest wound that is Iraq and the US Economy.

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Juan Cole has a great post on the Iran Speedboat video controversy that erupted after the US charged that Iranians were intimidating naval vessels and threatening to blow them up…

That sounds pretty bad… Then, we saw and HEARD the video…

In a accent somewhere between Steve Martin’s “Wild & Crazy Guys” SNL character and that cuban guy who rolls cigars on Miami Beach, the ominous voice is heard saying: “I am coming to YOU…” and “You will explode after a few minutes…”.

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Open letter to the Katrina victim suing for $3,014,170,389,176,410…
Congratulations on your incredibly boneheaded attempt to bring attention to this matter.
Perhaps you thought you were sending a message. It sends a message alright. Only, the message is that those suing in the aftermath of Katrina are silly and frivolous.
It sends the message that those you […]

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