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Timmy McBridgeFAIL’s new book (improved)

News that Minnesota’s soon to be ex- Governor Tim Pawlenty has written a book set to be released on January 11, 2011 was accompanied by a picture of the forthcoming book’s cover:

The cover image ended speculation about why Gov Timmy had been seen ~~grimacing presidentially~~ posing for photographers in scenic Frontenac State Park a few months ago.

Pretty as the cover is, some felt it might be improved by the use of imagery more personally relevant to its subject, and asked me to create an alternate cover implementing their suggestions:

There. Fixed it.

Not that the Pawlenty ppl would ever take my advice on effective graphics, for books or campaign signs or anything else…
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A Face In the Crowd

(my take on the original)

Disgust: on the Lonesome Rhodes Trail to Tortureville

America Is Better Than This

Triumph of the Propaganda Mill

Teevee Crackpot Calls For Joining Him

The Only Image You Need To Understand Beck-a-paloosa

87,000

Notes from The Beckture

and the best for last:

Driftglass gives us A Beck Poster of our very own.

Cackle of Rads Membership Card

Hot off the presses!

You asked for it — Now you can show the world you’re a card-carrying member of the Cackle of Rads. The perfect icebreaker at your Republican neighbor’s next tea party-kaffe klatsch. Hours of fun! Best of all: showing your official Cackle of Rads membership card is guaranteed to precipitate refudiation by Sarah Palin!

This is the official membership card of the Cackle of Rads. Accept no substitutes. Union-printed in the USA. Always look for the union label.

UPDATE: But wait! There’s more!

Two new variations:

Agent Orange Boehner to visit Minnesota

It’s not easy being orange: John Boehner to stump for Hayfield Republican Randy Demmer

The Boehnertone family: beachball-wielding tyke Pat Anderson; mommy dearest Michele Bachmann; papa John “Agent Orange” Boehner; and Randy Demmer as “the Boehver”

Irony Awareness Initiative

“Irony consists in stating the contrary of what is meant.” — Eric Partridge in Usage and Abusage: A Guide To Good English

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4. (noun) irony
a sort of humor, ridicule, or light sarcasm, which adopts a mode of speech the meaning of which is contrary to the literal sense of the words

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irony
n pl -nies
1 a form of deliberate mockery in which one says the opposite of what is obviously true.

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“Irony is wasted on the stupid.” — Oscar Wilde

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OK, kids — our story begins with a comment Bill Jungbauer left on August 1, 2010 on my blogpost titled Comrade Betty? from back in February of 2009…

Well… Before we do anything else, let’s go take a look at Bill Jungbauer’s website, shall we?

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Netroots Nation 2010

Many thanks as always to The Uptake.org for providing a live feed from Netroots Nation in Las Vegas this weekend…

UPDATE: It’s Sunday evening, NN10 has ended, and so the live feed has too.

Happy news — next year’s Netroots Nation will be happening right here in the Twin Cities!

Oh, and yes as a matter of fact we DO have a spare bedroom, completely furnished with stuff from IKEA, in which someone is welcome to stay. (All they have to do is assemble a futon frame, nightstand, and table lamp.) See you next June!

Tom Emmer deserves your income more than you do

It’s getting to be old news by this point (altho this story does have legs) so here are just the highlights/lowlights from the past few days:

Emmer: Food Service Workers Make Too Much Money

Tom Emmer, the minimum wage and political patronage

Myth list: Unicorns, Bigfoot, rich waiters

Restaurant owner outs Emmer as a liar

Emmer: Cutting Wages of Tipped Employees Doesn’t Cut Their Wages

Are Tips Really a Jobs Issue?

Emmer racks up complaints against opponents

Thanks, comrade Emmer. Now I understand.

Crises of Capitalism

Seen at boingboing, via Making Light, an intelligent, very accessible explanation of our current econopocalypse, explained by (prepare undies for bunching!) Marxist sociologist David Harvey at London’s Royal Society for the Arts.

Of course, you don’t have to get your undies in a bunch at the mention of the M word. Undie-bunching is the response of the fearful, blind follower. Just this once, just for today, try asking yourself if you have the courage to consider other points of view. Hint: Blind allegiance to an ideology --ANY ideology-- isn’t courage.

Brilliant, high-speed whiteboard animation. Well worth watching. Even more worth discussing…