Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 22, 2009, 8:55 pm

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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 22, 2009, 9:27 am
For the week ending November 21 Fired Up! Missouri: The Lafayette County Republican Central Committee is proudly celebrating a new crazy billboard on I-70 near Grain Valley. It calls for citizens t...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 21, 2009, 10:35 pm
I was tempted to write about this earlier in the week, but I didn’t believe it was real. Turns out it is. What you see below is the trailer to an actual documentary made by supporters of the cor...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 20, 2009, 2:21 pm
Nailed rather nicely by Current TV. Nice job guys.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 19, 2009, 1:50 pm
From the always entertaining Paul Krugman. Might the creepiest thing I’ve ever read from him, though. Maybe you were feeling a bit safer now that evil megalomaniacs were no longer running U.S. ...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 18, 2009, 4:29 pm
When I first saw this pic, I was about to say “What kind of self-respecting journalist would do something so stupid when discussing business news, or any other news for that matter?”. Th...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 18, 2009, 3:36 pm
Because they are creative as all hell. Take for example Star Wars: Reign of the Fallen. Never heard of it? It’s a Star Wars fanfilm directed and written by David McLeavy, and originally release...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 18, 2009, 9:00 am
“It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of “the 57 states” is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mo...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 17, 2009, 10:10 pm
That’s real cute and all that you’re happy to be working at a Microsoft store, but 1) this looks completely staged and 2) Your attempts at cloning the look of another computer company̵...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 17, 2009, 7:27 am
They’re creative (even the corporate-sponsored ones).
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 17, 2009, 7:03 am
“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of me...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 16, 2009, 2:08 pm
for the period ending November 16. Items compiled from HateWatch and Right Wing Watch. Think Progress: Ted Haggard Mounts A Comeback By Lying. Sarah Palin’s book is barely out and already peo...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 16, 2009, 7:34 am
It’s always a bit of a bummer to report that things aren’t getting better, but it’s worse when you keep saying it like a broken record and no one is paying attention. This has been t...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 14, 2009, 3:09 am
“If Sarah Palin is the 2012 GOP nominee for President, the Republican party platform will be the longest suicide note ever written” -Larry Sabato
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 13, 2009, 12:13 am
There is only one way this is going to end. Badly.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 12, 2009, 3:40 am
I don’t venture too much into foreign policy on this blog, but this piece Gary Will caught my eye. In it, he counters the over-stated opinion that leaving Afghanistan will besmirch the memories ...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 10, 2009, 10:14 pm
From “Yes We Can!” to “WTF??”: Obama and the Progressive Movement See more like this on kontraband.com
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 10, 2009, 9:26 pm
I’m almost tempted to make a joke about this considering Bruce’s side gig, but this is obviously a disturbed individual who has listened to so much right-wing radio and television that he&...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 9, 2009, 3:58 am
John Cole over at Balloon Juice writes about his amazement at a recently published article concerning how the Republican health insurance reform plan received no real media analysis while the Democrat...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 9, 2009, 2:56 am
for the period ending November 8 Tony Perkins goes all Glenn Beck as he explains that healthcare reform is literally a “bailout“ for Planned Parenthood. Finally, a Texas teacher is in d...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 5, 2009, 5:11 am
If Hollywood made this, I would so be there. No reason it couldn’t rake in the cash.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Nov 3, 2009, 5:02 pm
Since it’s still a few hours until the polls close, I’m curious if anyone is brave enough to start making predictions about the big contentious races facing the voters. View Poll View P...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 31, 2009, 3:48 am

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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 31, 2009, 12:04 am

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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 17, 2009, 11:27 am
or, more aptly titled: “Why the public option is doomed to failure because it evades the real problem facing health care.” On tonight’s season finale of Real Time with Bill Maher, t...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 16, 2009, 5:22 pm

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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 15, 2009, 6:54 pm
Nice little hat tip to the Ned Lamont CT Senate race from 2006 here too. Well done.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 15, 2009, 9:54 am
Glenn Greenwald writes of the need among progressives to separate the man from the movement, namely President Obama. It’s a sentiment that’s been growing over the last few weeks and and mo...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 14, 2009, 1:08 am
Rush Limbaugh will be a judge at next year’s Miss America pageant.  Seriously. Larry Klayman has a new book out.  Its title? WHORES. Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t seem to think that ...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 13, 2009, 9:00 pm
Admittedly, I don;t write often about social technology threads, despite the fact that I read about them all the time, but MG Siegler over at TechCrunch has really stumbled onto something with his ana...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 11, 2009, 2:38 pm
Other than the theme change, I’ve added and will continue to add some additional social functions to the site. Let me know if you have any suggestions of aspects to add. Thanks.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 10, 2009, 12:14 am
I have to admit that I never really considered this before as I’ve always thought of tribalism in it’s political context as a purely partisan frame of mind, but Henry at Crooked Timber mak...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 9, 2009, 10:02 pm
Certainly from our standpoint, this gives us a sense of momentum — when the United States has accolades tossed its way, rather than shoes. -Assistant Secretary PJ Crowley, a spokesman for Secre...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 9, 2009, 9:55 pm
I never promised it made sense, just that it was explained.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 7, 2009, 10:38 pm
This was as simple as I could make it.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 7, 2009, 12:53 pm
A poster who calls himself “treOfmight” has released a new video in YouTube, claiming to speak for the National Militia threatening President Obama to vacate his office no later than Octob...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 5, 2009, 4:03 pm
There isn’t really much to say here with Paul Krugman’s excellent, yet obvious analysis of the general description of the GOP’s tactics over the last few months. It all sums up to th...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 5, 2009, 4:18 am
*semi-weekly to be defined as “whenever the hell I get around to it” (links courtesy of Right Wing Watch and Hatewatch). For the period ending October 4, 2009: Truth Wins Out: Focus on t...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 5, 2009, 1:45 am
If you’re like me and wondering how people can still possibly hold on to the idea that Obama is not an American citizen despite an irrefutable abundance of evidence to the contrary, then this pi...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Oct 2, 2009, 10:01 pm
Yes, I think this is very cute. So sue me.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Sep 30, 2009, 9:48 pm
from TPM: Arizona — in the news over the summer for allowing gun-toters to attend presidential events — has now passed a law allowing people to carry guns into bars. TPM has reported on 1...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Sep 30, 2009, 3:44 pm
I find myself rarely in agreement with Tom Friedman. While I don’t consider myself an expert by any measure in foreign policy matters (the field a majority of his commentary is focused), I am al...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Sep 30, 2009, 1:20 pm
or rather, yet another reason why it rocks. Video Games – E3 2009 – Attack of the Show
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Sep 29, 2009, 2:40 pm
Reuters is reporting that ABC has hired Barry Sonnenfeld, the director behind Men In Black, Wild, Wild West and Adams Family Values to develop projects and a pilot for the upcoming season. What caught...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Sep 28, 2009, 7:17 pm
Since we’ve now entered the stage where the most ridiculous films are being re-made for audiences too scared to give new, original films the time of day (i.e. Plan 9 from Outer Space) or studios...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Sep 28, 2009, 3:59 pm
The Associated Press updated the story of Cameron Todd Willingham over the weekend to include some new information from The Innocence Project which has taken up his cause some five years after his exe...
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Sep 27, 2009, 1:27 pm
Sorry guys, but this isn’t even close to being a story. Unless you’ve decided to be Fox News Light, you can do better. kthxbi.
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Mark Dodson posted an article on Pundit Country - Sep 26, 2009, 2:44 pm
Robert Reich is one of the clearer voices (along with Krugman and at times, Stiglitz) in the field of experts who have been trying the last several months to explain why the much-touted recovery is no...
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