Ha Ha! Waterboarding! War Crimes! Shooting People in the Face! Hell Yeah! Fellow Sociopaths Have A Merry Old Time Roasting Dick Cheney, the Sociopathiest of Them All

Donald Rumsfeld, Scooter Libby, Joe Lieberman and a bunch of other right-wing creeps gathered at the Plaza Hotel Monday night to roast Dick Cheney and make tasteless jokes about waterboarding, torture and other crimes against humanity because, oh man, this stuff just never ceases to be hilarious. One highlight: Lieberman crowing about how nice it was "we’re all here at the Plaza instead of in cages after some war crimes trial.” Ha, good one Joe. Now that you and your cohorts have enjoyed “a very sentimental night,” may you all rot in hell or cages, whichever comes first.

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Bull

The shutdown may have furloughed 800,000 federal employees, cut back Head Start and workplace safety, and denied benefits and burial expenses to the families of four soldiers killed this weekend in Afghanistan, but it hasn't stopped the Utah National Guard from getting its new $47,174 mechanical bull on Monday to help attract recruits at fairs. Unreal.

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Oakland Residents Crowdfund Their Own Private Police Force, Because They Can

In a move that reflects America's growing inequalities, the residents of three middle and upper class areas of Oakland - close by moneyed Silicon Valley but home to rising crime rates and a "broken" police department with a history of violence and racism - have banded together to crowdfund their own private security patrols. They argue they're entitled to safety; critics question a social contract that says only a few can have a basic civic good, and let the rest eat poverty, unemployment, chaos and crime.

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