Tag Archives: idiocy

Sen. Rand Paul trounced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, pesky logic

May 12, 2011 – 1:00 pm

In a hearing on the state of the United States’ for-profit, non-competitive, people-killing  healthcare system (which isn’t, by the way, worth a damn), national embarrassment and freshman Republican senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, clashed with Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont over ideology and, so it would also seem, the basic rules of logical thought. Birefly, [...]

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Nunn gets rowdy in the pokey

May 10, 2011 – 1:12 pm

Disgraced former Kentucky lawmaker/Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary and alleged murderer Steve Nunn isn’t getting along with his fellow inmates at Lexington’s Fayette County Jail. From The Herald-Leader: Former state lawmaker Steve Nunn was beaten up Monday after throwing a basketball at a jail inmate facing robbery, rape and other charges, officials said. Nunn, [...]

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Close encounters of the ark kind

December 1, 2010 – 11:36 am

It’s official: In Kentucky, the invisible hand of the market belongs to God. Not long ago, in your blessed state capital, Gov. Steve Beshear announced his full support of a $150 million Noah’s Ark-themed water park to be constructed in Grant County. And ye, he saw that it was good: “We are excited to join [...]

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Insight power-grab heads back to committee

November 19, 2010 – 12:22 pm

After realizing there were dump truck-sized holes in the city’s new franchise agreement with Insight Communications, the Louisville Metro Council voted to send the ordinance, which granted the cable television and Internet provider an unprecedented degree of autonomy, back to the committee that spawned it. In an interview with LEO Weekly, Democratic Caucus spokesman Tony [...]

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BREAKING: Indian Head Rock returned, war with Ohio avoided

November 4, 2010 – 2:20 pm

Museum Plaza and Indian Head Rock, in the same news cycle? Me-oh my-oh, things certainly are looking up for Kentucky these days. Via WFPL: The Indian Head Rock is back home in Kentucky. The eight ton boulder was pulled from the Ohio River in northeastern Kentucky three years ago, starting a saga that caught national [...]

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cn|2 releases Ky. health care opinion poll

October 14, 2010 – 12:42 pm

According to cn|2, a shit-ton of Kentuckians still hate that dang-blasted Obamacare, which will murder the elderly and turn babies into stem cell milkshakes any day now. That’s because cn|2 conducted what is known as a “poll,” whereby questions are asked of large numbers of people in the hopes of figuring something out. And what [...]

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Sen. McConnell humps Big Coal in D.C.

September 15, 2010 – 11:21 am

While you were sleeping off last night’s Aqua Buddha-inspired bong hits, your tireless Senate Minority Leader, Beaker Mitch McConnell, was attending a bullshit FACES of Coal rally this morning in Washington, D.C. Despite the fact that Kentucky was recently named the 4th worst state in the nation for coal plant-related deaths and the increased financial [...]

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Marilyn Parker: Fool.

August 31, 2010 – 4:05 pm

Failed 3rd congressional district candidate/Louisville Tea Party board member Marilyn Parker has a Facebook page and, wouldn’t you know it, she’s using it to berate Muslims at the expense of Hurricane Katrina victims. While we’re sure that Parker doesn’t read, we’d nonetheless like to bring to her attention the story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian [...]

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BREAKING: Can hot dogs… kill you?

June 8, 2010 – 4:35 pm

In a stunning expose on the dangers of mechanically separated-and-tubed meat products, McClatchy Newspapers ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind: How much will cleaning up BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost? Will Israel be held accountable for its attack of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla? Will Congress actually pass financial reform that [...]

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Attn: Republicans — 2010′s taxes were the lowest in over 50 years

May 12, 2010 – 10:40 am

We forgot to post this yesterday, what with putting our election issue together and whatnot, but here it is anyway, for your reading pleasure: Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman’s presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data [...]

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