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The Little ACORN That Could

by Frumpzilla on December 14, 2009

“Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.” Dan Quayle

Well, frumps, way back in September (which seems a political lifetime ago) I published an article about the Right’s seemingly successful witch-hunt against ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). FOX news mysteriously came into [...]

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Fear, Fear, Fear Of a New Thing

by Frumpzilla on November 20, 2009

Well, frumps, I must say that one nice thing about conspiracy theories is that they have a relatively short shelf life. Maybe that has to do with the emotional intensity that adherents are willing to invest in a particular theory; perhaps they fizzle out from sheer exhaustion – or boredom.
Experts argue about why we concoct [...]

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The Fools on the Hill

by Frumpzilla on October 20, 2009

Well, frumps, the Republican Party is starting to show a disturbing tendency toward cannibalism so can it be far off before they start devouring their young? I’m not sure who the “brains” behind the 2010 GOP will be and, apparently, neither does the GOP. So far, the word that’s leaking out of the Republican clubhouse [...]

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The ACORN Is One Strange Fruit

by Frumpzilla on September 27, 2009

So, frumps, some of you, I’m sure, are old enough to remember a school of social psychology that advocated pillow-punching to help us get out our latent aggressions. I believe it became popular 1970s-ish, somewhere between Primal Screaming and Dianetics. The basic idea behind pillow-punching was that the pillow would stand in for “the enemy.” [...]

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