TEABAGGING THE TEABAGGERS

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Jon Stewart takes on the teabaggers in this clip from the Daily Show. Just so you know where we stand, we believe health care should be a right and not a luxury. Call us liberal, but we don't think people should die because they lack money.

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Of course, there's another side to the story, and here are a couple "teabaggers" to present their perspective:

Selfishness is always a selling point for morons--that is, until they get some debilitating disease that threatens their meager savings, and then they'll be first in line for Medicare, Medicaid, all that "socialist" jazz they're crying about. Talk is cheap. Empathy might be too much to ask, but give this guy an impacted wisdom tooth and he'd probably join the fricking Red Army for some Novocaine.

This guy is scary. I don't know where to begin with his idiotic sign. Is it racist, antisemitic, historically ignorant--or all of the above? They used to call these types "The Lunatic Fringe." They come out of their caves every so often to fight against integration, against fluoridation, against the abolition of slavery, against witches. Their world is changing and it scares them shitless. We've always had frightened, selfish people dragging their heals as humanity strives for progress and enlightenment, only now they have their own TV shows.

TRUTH AND BEAUTY

"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
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A conversation about truth and beauty with novelists Jonathan Lethem and Janna Levin.

Jonathan Lethem is the author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. He is also a prolific essayist, with a vast knowledge of popular music. Before writing fiction, Lethem was trained as an artist.

Janna Levin is a theoretical cosmologist with a PhD in theoretical physics from MIT. Her research predicts a finite universe. She also dabbles in chaos theory, black holes, topology and fractals. In 2006, she published an historical novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, featuring Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing as characters.

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PROP 8: THE MUSICAL!

warning: this is humor. As you may know, Proposition 8 was a California ballot measure that amended the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Come on, people! Get over it. Let 'em marry.

As expected, O'Reilly and the Fox News cretins are outraged--not with the limitation of civil rights, of course, but with the musical. Certain evangelical churches and branches of the American Taliban are warning people not to watch this "video virus." God forbid, you think for yourself! And God forbid you actually see it--you will have to pluck your eyes out, per the Bible.

Just kidding!

Keith Olbermann has the story.