Wingnuttery category archive

The TWiB gang critiques Alex Jones’s appearance on the BBC.

Wait for the meltdown.

Take one gallon stupid.

Stir in one pound ground castor beans.

Place in envelope and garnish with postage stamp.

Serves 10 (years in the Big House).

North Colorado? Really?

Air travelers throughout the country were hit with cancellations and tarmac delays as long as four hours Monday, as the nation’s largest airports grappled with the onset of furloughs for Federal Aviation Administration air-traffic controllers.

“Industry-wide, the FAA plan could delay one out of every three people who fly, and the delays could be significant,” United Airlines says.

Some have wondered why the one sequestrian dressage dance step that upset Republican Congresspersons was the closure of certain air traffic control centers.

It’s because of a central myth of wingnuttery: the belief that the evul Fedrul guvmint doesn’t do anything useful.

Indeed, this may be a core belief of the nihilists on the right. In their view, government is not of the people, by the people, for the people, but is some kind of inherently evil other.

In reality, most of what most governments do is useful, stuff such as providing roads, hospitals, schools, garbage collection, scientific research, citizen protection, and many other things (with the possible exception of blowing up peasants all over the world because they look hinky to a gamer droning on in Nevada, yes, all over the world, tonight, all over the world you can hear the sounds of boom!).

Being reminded that the evul Fedrul guvmint does useful stuff strikes at the core of their nihilism, so they want the evidence to just

please

go

away.

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George Smith has more to say about the fringe’s fascination with ricin and dealing death-by-mail.

A self-defeating and nihilistic interest exists in ricin poison in this country, as if every red-blooded, disappointed and frustrated American kook has a defiant right to possess a recipe on their hard disk and a packet of castor seeds nearby, perhaps next to an unregistered handgun equipped with a silencer made out of a vegetable. In the last twelve years this has ensured a constant trickle of criminal apprehensions and prosecutions, a process the government has handled efficiently, depositing ricin crackpots where they belong. Everyone found with castor seeds and a ricin recipe gets a long prison stay. There have never been any exceptions, even with those in the group who have never gotten to the part where the seeds are actually turned to powder.

Heh.

Nothing and no one tick off contemporary conservatives more than someone who cares about working people, the exploited, or other victims of society, and does something about it.

Apparently, the wingnut-o-sphere is irate that Google chose to honor Cesar Chavez.

Via Balloon Juice.

. . . this one seems, thank heavens, to have failed.

But those campaigners are still in there pitching.

Don’t kid yourself that they are not still with us and still trying.

Stay classy, Texas.

For the second time in the past several months, vandals struck the Obama mural on a building on the southern edge of Midtown (Houston–ed.) that served as local Democratic Party headquarters during the presidential campaign.

Splashes of black and red paint mar the 10-foot image of the 44th president in the 3700 block of Travis near West Alabama. The mural had been restored in October after vandals had defaced it with splashes of paint. That previous vandalism was also discovered on a Monday.

Wingnut Board of Education Dept.

Steven M. thinks that the lamers have won.

And here I thought the Citadel was a college in South Carolina.

And the Commander Guy is handing out the Golden Wingnut Awards.

I remember the first funeral I attended.

I was in the tenth grade; one of my classmates, a good friend, had been out driving his new (to him) car. He had run off the road at a bad curve, known locally as “Dead Man’s Curve,” and died from his injuries before he was discovered hours later.

At his funeral, while standing outside the funeral home (the same one where my brother and I made the arrangements for my mother), I heard one grown-up saying to another, “He was just like all the rest of these kids . . . .”

They did not notice that one of the rest of those kids was standing right next to them.

They were heartless, self-centered jerks, bigoted and wrong, sanctimonious and rude, all at the same time.

Same like Mike Huckabee.

Mean for the sake of mean–it’s a Republican thing.