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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2012 58 Comments

The Saturday Night Card Game started on August 8, 2009, when I noticed a post by Oliver Willis of Media Matters blogging at his own blog, as follows: Steve Benen tries to understand just why wingnuts are so angry about health care reform. He doesn’t make...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 14, 2012 53 Comments

Because you have been bad, and because I want to inflict maximum pain, you must watch all 12 minutes of this video in which Lawrence "Herman Cain didn't know how to be black" O'Donnell leads a panel of race card players attacking Mitt Romney's speech to...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 07, 2012 55 Comments

From Chris Rock: With time standing still, Rock was right. There was slavery in much of the British Colonies, and Independence Day did not end that immediately.  It took about 90 years and a civil war to do that, although many slaves gained their freedom in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2012 45 Comments

From Dr. Jack Kevorkian's lawyer comes possibly the worst form of attorney advertising ever, a massive play of the race card designed to drum up business in the Detroit area. (h/t OcTEApi in Tip Line) Did anyone question whether George Romney was qualified to be President?  Hello Geoffrey Fieger,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 38 Comments

Mike Lupica is a sports writer who now is a political columnist.  Lupica suffers from Keith Olbermann Disease. Lupica hasn't been mentioned much here, but we did call him out when he claimed that a Stop Obama sign was a call to violence based on race: We are 100 yards, no...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 33 Comments

Obama has lost roughly 40% of the Democratic primary vote to an imprisoned felon in West Virginia, to "uncommitted" in Kentucky, and to a Tennesee lawyer who "could fit snugly on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC show" and who no one in Arkansas likely had heard of before...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 28 Comments

Via The Daily Mail (Britain): Police chiefs have banned the word ‘blacklist’ over fears it is racist. They have also struck out its opposite – ‘whitelist’ – which is used by IT workers for a list of acceptable email contacts. Scotland Yard employees have been told to use...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2012 60 Comments

The Battle of the English Language continues. There is an organized movement by the Applied Research Center, of which Rashad Robinson of Color of Change is a Board member, to ban the use of the term "illegal alien" as racist. What race is an illegal alient?  Let's not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2012 57 Comments

I think this is a fair description of the racial narrative of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman: George Zimmerman (1) shot Trayvon Martin (2) because a black teenager in a hoodie is frightening (3) to whites, as proven by (4) Zimmerman's description of Martin as suspicious...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 31, 2012 21 Comments

This is cold fusion: Hypothetically (and broadly) speaking, the process involves fusing two smaller  atomic nuclei together into a larger nucleus, a process that releases massive  amounts of energy. If harnessed, cold fusion could provide cheap and nearly  limitless energy with no radioactive byproduct or massive...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2012 35 Comments

Greetings from the Lone Star State, where it's cold and rainy (in Dallas). Because of pre-travel, travel, meetings, etc., I am unable to provide you with the usual searing insight into the human condition, just links: If chanting USA! USA! USA! is racist, what is chanting Si...

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