Asploders Syndrome

While we’re enjoying Retweet Monday, please pleasure yourself with this selection of Actual Discoveries Regarding a Recently Rereleased Blockbuster Movie. And offer @boring_as_heck mad props for curating America’s Idiocy.

You may have heard that NRO’s John Derbyshire published an outrage-baiting post Friday that outraged the congenitally outrageable: Something about telling his kids to avoid black neighborhoods because those niggers will pop a cap in your cracker ass.

We might be over-paraphrasing that. Let’s check in with the source:

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“Miss Universe organization is reconsidering its decision to ban transgender contestant Jenna Talackova from competing, after receiving criticism from equality activists and conservatives like Bill O’Reilly.” [ThinkProgress]

“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to, but it’s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.” [NYT]

Our guest columnist is the American Family Association’s “One Million Moms”, suggesting text for your Outraged Email to Toys ‘R’ Us.

As a mother and a member of OneMillionMoms.com, I am extremely disappointed to learn that select Toys ‘R’ Us stores are now selling ‘Archie’ comic books with a same-sex wedding displayed on the front cover. I am referring to the ones where the front cover reads “Just Married” with two men marrying, one wearing a service uniform.

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“[Marco] Rubio was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his family at around the age of eight, and remained active in the faith for a number of years during his early youth, family members told BuzzFeed.” [via Political Wire]

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