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Penigma
http://penigma.blogspot.com/
A mystery under a pseudonym; a blog dedicated to the rational discussion of politics and current events
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1995 )
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Penigma Salutes International Women's Day
Having perused a variety of the articles acknowledging the day; it is a testament to the success of feminism. The culture war on women from the right is the... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Ah, SWEET JUSTICE: Better Late Than Never
Better late than never. If they didn't do anything wrong, they wouldn't be paying up and apologizing.They LIED. From Salon: James O’Keefe to pay $100K over ACOR... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
First of all, before anyone flips out, this is humor, not real Pat Robertson silliness; it's been re-run today because parts of the nation have recently... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Canceled.
The problem with relying on good people with guns to shoot bad people with guns is that no one is all good or all bad. We see on a daily basis good people... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
The Time is Now, the Right Side of the Issue is Clear
The gun culture of easily accessible lethal individual violence is a failure. There are in history certain trends, certain issues, that have a right side, and... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Factually Inaccurate, Innately Threatening; This Statement Should Invalidate...
Not surprising, this man's adult son is just finishing up a ten year sentence behind bars for attempting to kill someone with a gun during a road rage incident. Read more
Posted on 07 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Breaking News: George Zimmerman Murder Trial!
Yeah, so much for that crappy stand your ground law protection for racist killer George Zimmerman!From the Guardian: Trayvon Martin case: Zimmerman drops... Read more
Posted on 07 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Is Dennis Rodman Republican?
This is the kind of ignorance that we have come to expect from the tea partiers like Sarah 'the popsie' Palin, or Michele Bachmann, or maybe from some of our... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Children Are More Important Than the Failed Gun Culture
Psychology teaches us that when failed behavior, behavior which is being extinguished, which does not succeed and is not rewarded, there is usually a large fina... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
No Droids, No Drones, No Gays?
Posted on 06 March 2013
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What is It with Paranoid, Dishonest Conservative Victims?
Bob Woodward appears to have some long running problems with details and accuracy. In the most recent iteration, Bob appears to have edited important words out... Read more
Posted on 06 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Gop = Fail
Failed Republican Social Policies, Failed Republican Math Republicans insist on formulating bad social policy, EXPENSIVE social policy, based on the... Read more
Posted on 05 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Climate Change: Historic Drought to Persist
This will affect us here in MN; we have had to resort to irrigation to sustain agriculture, and the water supply in the aquifer, the underground water source, i... Read more
Posted on 05 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Southern Baptists Recently Complained That 'liberals' Were Ostracizing Homophobe...
Homophobia among conservatives is very much like conservative racism; it is wrong, it is bad, it is on the wrong side of history. Read more
Posted on 04 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
The Ryan / Romney Failed Free Market Capitalism Health Care Policy
Miracles are great, but you don't want to rely on them too much; the Lord is notorious for helping those who help themselves, and for failing to help so very,... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
The Party That CLAIMS to Be All About Personal Accountbility is NOTORIOUS for...
Dear Ann Romney, Mitt Romney, et al: If there were anything you could do to make us regard you with more disdain and contempt and dislike than your campaign,... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
An Open Letter to Representative Gruenhagen
Dear Representative Gruenhagen, You are an idiot who knows nothing about DNA, chromosomes, genetics, or human sexuality. Your statements about the homosexual... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
This is Appropriate Guilt by Association
The right keeps trying to deny that a significant segment of their party is racist, and that the rest of the party tolerates racism. They pretend surprise at th... Read more
Posted on 02 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Blowed up Real Good
Back in the 90's, shutting down the government blew up in the face of the Nut Gingrich. The Sequester position of John Boehner and the rest of the right is goin... Read more
Posted on 02 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
For the Right Wing Theocrats and Dominionists Who Opposed the vAWA
What is called Christian on the right is just not very Christian, in the original sense of the term. Conservatives, like Phyllis "women who are sexually harasse... Read more
Posted on 02 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY
