Send an underprivileged kid to a baseball game

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 10:28 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 22:28

I know we're all very pent up with rage and annoyance and we can't believe the United States has become a fascist state, and the judiciary is screwed, and the Democrats are weak, and the media is bought and paid for, and....

Well heck, it just goes on and on. So I wanted to change speed a little and tell folks about a blog movement that has set out to make some positive change in the lives of a few kids this year - and it's a blog owned by Markos, which makes it all the more worthwhile to discuss.

As you may or may not know, Markos runs an outfit called Sportsblog Nation, a collective of sports blogs in the mold of dKos, and the premier SB Nation baseball blog is a site called Athletics Nation, dedicated to the Oakland A's ball team.

Why do you care? Because the Athletics Nation kids were bored during the off-season this year and got it in their heads to throw some spare change together to buy a couple of season tickets and donate them to a local underprivileged children's charity. Read More

O'Reilly Caves to Advertisers, Calls Off Vermont Boycott

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Friday January 20, 2006 · 1:25 PM PST

2006/01/20 · 13:25

As much as he damages the fabric of America on a daily basis, I really do love the comedy of Bill O'Reilly. It's not necessarily intentional comedy, but it's hilarious nonetheless, because he's just SUCH a fool. And anyone who knows comedy understands that a fool that point blank refuses to learn his lessons, is the grandest comedy of all.

Today's chapter in the Why Bill O'Reilly is a Clown (to borrow a David Brooks phrase) is his boycott of the state of Vermont.

On the O'Reilly factor website (which is, incidentally, the #1 spot on any Google search for 'terrorist sympathizer'), he's running a poll right now:

If Judge Cashman is not removed from hearing criminal cases, will you boycott Vermont?

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Is Kyra Phillips functionally retarded?

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Thursday January 19, 2006 · 12:49 PM PST

2006/01/19 · 12:49

So today I broke my long time boycott of CNN because I wanted to see if the press was talking about Rep. Slaughter's news that day traders have been working out of Bill Frist and Tom DeLay's offices. They haven't.

But the half hour period that I watched gave me a chance to stare goggle-eyed at the staggering inanity and witless braindead mass of wasted organic matter that is Kyra Phillips.

Really, how does someone this dumb get on TV? Here's a sample of the wit and weeniedom of Kyra Phillips from today (I don't have a transcript, so I'm paraphrasing): Read More

Movie studios and fake film critics engaged in fraud.

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Thursday January 05, 2006 · 6:46 PM PST

2006/01/05 · 18:46

REPOSTED FROM HOLLYWOODBITCHSLAP.COM, BECAUSE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW (and I wrote it, so I give myself full permission to reprint it in its entirety here):

HYPERBOLE FOR SALE: HOW EARL DITTMAN AND THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS HAVE DESTROYED FILM CRITICISM AND DEFRAUDED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC

While the population has been focused on the `War on Terror' over the last few years, another war has been taking place on the streets and in the moviehouses of North America. This war, while featuring far fewer casualties, has hurt Americans terribly, and moviegoers in particular, as it has taken the number one leisure activity of the western world and turned it into a boulevard of whores, frauds, shysters and criminals. I am speaking, of course, about the War on Film Criticism. And the Osama Bin Laden of the War on Film Criticism is Earl Dittman. Read More

Action Alert: Freep AFA boycott of new TV show!

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Wednesday January 04, 2006 · 12:36 PM PST

2006/01/04 · 12:36

So it turns out I'm on the 'call to action' email list of the American Family Association.

This brings me no end of amusement as I daily open my email inbox to find Don "Satan's Little Helper" Wildmon telling me what products and people I should be boycotting today, and providing me with a handy little link to a form with which to email advertisers, TV affiliates, journalists, etc.

It makes me queazy, but at the same time it riles me up enough to do battle - and the thing about Wildmon's handy mass-email form is this: it comes in real handy for emailing SUPPORT to the people he wants us to boycott.

Today's target? NBC, for daring to put out a TV show called The Book of Daniel, which deals with a priest just struggling to get by in this crazy mixed up world. They've already convinced one weak-kneed affiliate to ditch the show (or so they claim - we know from the Ford episode recently that the AFA can't be trusted to tell the truth), so we're starting this counter-action from behind the 8-ball.

Below you'll find Wildmon's call to arms, and a link. Your mission, friends, is to use that link, for good, not evil. Read More

How my family enlisted in the War on Christmas.

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Monday December 26, 2005 · 12:21 AM PST

2005/12/26 · 00:21

It's been a good year for me. I got married this year, had a child, bought a home, and my family is healthy, happy, employed and united. Despite the doom and gloom around us, we prospered, and thus as the Christmas season loomed, we realized we had much to be thankful for.

We also realized that your standard, everyday, commercial Christmas Day was not the way to celebrate the fact.

So my family made a decision this year. Myself, my wife, my brother-in-law and parents-in-law all determined that, this year, since the Neocons have determined that there should be a War on Christmas, that we would accept their challenge and commit to the anti-Christmas cause.

We decided that, in the absence of any discernable anti-Christmas forces out there to win this war, we would be marytyrs for the cause and attack Christmas in every way, shape and form we possibly could. Here's what we did: Read More

$2000+ raised for Americans United in Paul Mirecki's name

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Wednesday December 07, 2005 · 1:08 AM PST

2005/12/07 · 01:08

So last night I was pissed. There I was, reading a diary about a physical attack on a Kansas University college professor, Paul Mirecki, who had committed the grievous sin (in some eyes) of deciding to teach a class that debunked Intelligent Design as mythology.

Mirecki survived the attack, and emerged from hospital seemingly unrattled, despite being peppered with blows from the fists of two assailants, and being clunked on the head with something "metallic." I was glad to hear the prof would be okay, but I was in no way prepared to just get angry for a day, and then slowly let it all fade into memory.

I wanted to do something that didn't just fight back, but showed the assailants that their actions worked AGAINST their cause. And so I put together a diary that asked for donations to Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, a group at the forefront of the defense of those teaching evolution in schools. Read More

(UPDATED!) Thugs beat up evolution supporter - We're fighting back.

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Monday December 05, 2005 · 8:12 PM PST

2005/12/05 · 20:12

As you've probably seen on the top of the recommended diary list, today a pair of 'Christians' stalked and attacked Professor Paul Mirecki, the Chair of Kansas University's Department of Religious Studies. He currently sits in hospital recovering from his savage beating. [UPDATE: He's since been released from hospital and is doing fine]

Why did they attack him? Because he's running a class about how intelligent design is scientific quackery.

I'm sure the media will downplay the attack as just being a pair of lone lunatics, but let's not fall for that - this is a terrorist act as defined by the Patriot Act, not to mention a hate crime. Quite frankly, I'm not going to stand for it. So I'm fighting back, and you can too. Here's how: Read More

Google Bomb of the Week: The Bush Family are Moonies!

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Sunday December 04, 2005 · 6:55 PM PST

2005/12/04 · 18:55

Welcome to this week's episode of Google-Bomb a conservative bastard! This is number 4 on the list of recent anti-right Google-Bombs, and if we can make it stick, it'll be a delightful victory for anyone who despises cult leaders, hypocrisy, fake Christians, corruption, shilldom, and extreme right wing nutjobs getting an audience with the President whenever they so choose.

In previous weeks, you might recall we have caused no end of embarrassment to Republican shills by shining the bright light of Google upon their crimes. These include:

Week 1: Bill O'Reilly is a terrorist sympathizer.
Time for Google-Bomb to take hold: 3 days.
Current position: #1

Week 2: Bob Woodward is a White House Shill.
Time for Google-Bomb to take hold: 5 days
Current position: #1

Week 3: Bill Frist is a kitten killer.
Time for Google-Bomb to take hold: 7 days
Current position: #8.

So who is up for this week's Google-Bombing? Heck, let's go after the entire Bush Family and let the world know that they're MOONIES! Read More

Google-Bomb of the Week: Kitten Killer, Bill Frist.

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Friday November 25, 2005 · 4:05 PM PST

2005/11/25 · 16:05

Welcome to this week's episode of Google-Bomb a conservative bastard!

In previous weeks, you might recall we have caused no end of embarrassment to Republican shills who have demonstrated hypocrisy of a ridiculous nature by shining the bright light of Google upon their crimes.

First, we went after Bill O'Reilly, who is a 'terrorist sympathizer'. That Google-Bomb took just three days to complete.

Next, we took aim at Bob Woodward, who is a "White House Shill'. That took a little longer to pay off, due mainly to the intense competition for that title, but if you look at Google right now and type 'white house shill' into the search box, you'll find Woodward now tops Jeff Gannon AND Armstrong Williams for the number one spot. Bravo, Booby.

So who receives the Google-Bomb o'public relations death this week?

Methinks it's time for the Kitten Killer to get his due. Read More

The Weekly Google-Bomb - This week: Bob Woodward

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Thursday November 17, 2005 · 5:37 PM PST

2005/11/17 · 17:37

Earlier this week, I made the ever so modest suggestion that it would be neat if a whole bunch of people put links on their blogs and blog posts that said the words "Bill O'Reilly is a terrorist sympathizer."

Many people did. So many, in fact, that if you search for "terrorist sympathizer" on Google today, the first result you'll see listed is Bill O'Reilly's website. Mission very much accomplished. Suddenly I feel like donning a codpiece and a flight suit.

But our good work is not over, fine people of the leftward persuasion, because a certain individual has this week demonstrated his utter lack of ethics, journalistic standards, honor and independece. I am, of course, talking of former hero of the journalism world, now laughing stock, Bob Woodward. Read More

The daily 'Crucify Bill O'Reilly' call to action

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Tuesday November 15, 2005 · 2:03 AM PST

2005/11/15 · 02:03

As many of you may already know, Bill O'Reilly last week announced that because San Francisco had voted to keep military recruiters out of their children's high schools, Al Queda should come attack them, and when they do, Bill will watch, smile, and demand that the rest of the US let it happen.

Obviously, this is the O'Reilly equivalent to Bill Maher's "You can call the terrorists many things, but 'coward' is not one of them" moment. Only, this was worse.

Maher was simply pointing out the definition of a word - O'Reilly is calling for the destruction of an American city at the hands of terrorists because he disagrees with their politics. And it can not stand.

So here's your call to action for today, to help put Bill O'Reilly's career in the ground once and for all. Read More

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