Bye Bye Ted

In the wake of Newtown, the so-called Discovery Channel has cancelled two gun-toting so-called reality shows, "American Guns" and “Ted Nugent’s Gun Country,” featuring right-wing creep Nugent. Don't slam the door. “Nobody has more absolute fun with guns than my family...Our American Dream is measured in ballistics." - Ted Nugent

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Infrared Dreams: I Wish My Eyes Would Rot

For over five years, Brandon Bryant worked in a locked, windowless, trailer-like container in New Mexico that hummed with computers. When he pressed a button, someone died on the other side of the world. One time, it was a child who suddenly appeared by a targeted mud house. Der Spiegel looks at drone operators, PTSD, and the effects when our invisible warfare becomes unexpectedly, necessarily real to those waging it. "Did we just kill a kid?" he asked the man sitting next to him.

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Joe, Finally, on "The Battle We Now Must Fight"

In a dramatic turnaround, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, a conservative Republican and longtime gun rights advocate, said the Newtown massacre "changed everything" and made his past beliefs "no longer relevant." In a powerful 10-minute monologue, he said politicians "can no longer be allowed to defend the status quo" - a stand supported by The Rude Pundit for awful, excellent reasons. "Our Bill of Rights does not guarantee gun manufacturers (the) right to sell military-style, high-caliber, semi-automatic combat assault rifles with high-capacity magazines to whoever the hell they want."

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