OMG, look who got arrested earlier today: Yes, that’s George Clooney. The movie star. He’s now free, along with his dad and a group of other prominent activists who were protesting on behalf of the people of Sudan, in front of the Sudanese embassy in Washington, DC. Clooney and the
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Heroes for Today: Sandra Fluke, standing tall for women
Watch this video in its entirety and see if you can find anything about this bright young woman that would justify the Pigman, Rush Limbaugh, in calling her a slut simply for asking that her Catholic university provide birth control pills to female students who need them for medical reasons:
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Alan Grayson
Don’t you love how, in just a minute and a half, he shuts up a whole table full of rightards with nothing but the facts? (And yeah, how about that prick in the green, P.J. O’Rourke? He hauls out every tired right-wing media stereotype of hippies, but doesn’t describe a single leftist that I’ve actually […]
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Jesse LaGreca nails FUX Snooze
This was making the rounds on Facebook yesterday:
FUX didn’t air this. Gee, I wonder why…
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: The hikers are home…
…and who do you suppose brokered their release from Iran? Yup, that evil villainous democratically-elected “strongman”, “dictator”, and whatever other stupid epithet you care to fling at his chemo-bald head. He’s a hero yet again. He did this for a couple of complete strangers in the midst of his treatment for cancer. And he got […]
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Talking back to the 1%ers
You heard the lady. Pay it forward, you tax-dodging billionaires.
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Maxine Waters
She tells the teabags where they can go (hint: it’s the same place they’re trying to drag their entire country.) You may also recall her from this opening scene in Fahrenheit 9/11: This is the kind of fighting spirit that’s needed the world over, as the banksters try to hook us all into virtual slavery. […]
Continue readingHeroes for Today: A German, two lesbians, a mayor and a prime minister…
…and, hell: a whole slew of plain, ordinary Norwegian citizens of all faiths and colors: Meanwhile, here’s the German, who saved as many as 30 people from the frigid waters in his small boat. He didn’t stop making trips out to find them until he saw the police coming. And here are the lesbians (a […]
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Hugh Grant, actually.
Who’d of thunk that an actor who once became notorious for his run-in with a streetwalker would end up turning the tables on the paparazzi who made his private life virtually nonexistent thereafter? Or that he’d become a hero to all the people victimized by Rupert Murdoch’s junk-journalism empire in the process? Certainly it never […]
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: Iconic photo du jour
Sorry, no Chavecito, Evo or El Ecuadorable today; don’t worry, they’ll be back next week (or whenever). I just got wind of this one via the tweeter, and it is AWESOME. From the floor of our very own Senate: Brigette Marcelle DePape may be out of a job as a Senate page, but she just […]
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