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A Good Read: Russell Baker on George Orwell.

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 21st, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This is a portion of the preface that appears in my copy of Animal Farm (Signet Classic Printing, 50th Anniversary Edition, April 1996): [...] Orwell, of course, was seldom happier than when he was attacking fraud and hypocrisy and hearing the squeals of the injured. Despite his insistence on being “political” in his work, Orwell’s [...]



Your Daily Legal Idiot: Sorry, Sarah Palin again.

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 21st, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

When will this woman just shut up and raise the average IQ of politicians everywhere? Adversaries who have been trying to silence Dr. Laura for years seized on her recent use of the n-word on her show as she subsequently suggested that rap “artists” and other creative types like those producing HBO shows who regularly [...]



Your Daily Legal Idiot: Has Sarah Palin ever actually read the United States Constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights?

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 18th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Background: On August 10th, Radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger went on a tirade on her radio program using the n-word 11 times. Tuesday, she announced that she would be ending her radio show to “regain [her] First Amendment rights.” For some perverse reason the former Mayor of Wasilla and half-term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, [...]



Are these bloggers nuts?

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 15th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Jim Geraghty at National Review Online’s “Campaign Spot” blog has a post about the top 25 “worst figures in American history” as determined by 43 right-wing bloggers. Let’s just say that hyperpartisanship is effecting everyone this year: 23) Saul Alinsky 23) Bill Clinton 23) Hillary Clinton 19) Michael Moore 19) George Soros (8) 19) Alger [...]



Mosque in Texas vandalized causing $20,000 in damage.

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Yeah, burning that playground equipment is really going stop Islamic terrorism and Shariah Law. How much responsibility do people like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich bear for this wider wave of Islamophobia that has struck the nation? H/t: Doug Mataconis and Michael Powell on Twitter.



Why I am sick of the right, and why I probably will not be voting this year

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 14th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Why? Because I am sick of the right and all the noise and bluster coming out of the right this year. It is not that I agree at all with President Obama’s policies, but I am so sick of the now that I see no reason I should bother to support — or even give [...]



Why the tea-party “movement” is a joke, part the first in an occasional series.

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 12th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

What is an organization or movement other than a sum of its parts, in this case, its members? Herman Cain, a business leader and radio host; and Tea Party Patriot co-founder Jenny Beth Martin have joined the roster of speakers for the Virginia Tea Party Convention. Organizers have invited about two dozen speakers, mostly prominent [...]



A post in which I try to start a blog-war with some idiot at Bearing Drift over the gay marriage ruling.

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Aug 6th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Over at Bearing Drift, a Steven Osborne has a post about what — in his deluded mind — the gay marriage ruling (by Judge Vaughn R. Walker in Perry v. Schwarzenegger) means. Frankly, I’m not sure why I’m bothering to post about a blog post that is just awful. I guess it’s partly because it’s [...]



Paranoid Sarah Palin kicks conservative bloggers out of event.

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Jun 28th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Geez. That woman’s nuts. And that comment thread has a major attack of the Palinbots too. Why does that woman have any credibility with anyone? At least it’s gotten to the point where an endorsement from her is a net negative.



Catherine Crabill: Calls blogger “wicked”, refers to his parents as “Ahab and Jezebel”, and calls for demons to be cast out of them.

By Timothy Watson From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Jun 10th, 2010 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Special guest post by your favorite hate-blogger’s mother, Kay Watson: On Election Day, my son, Timothy and I were doing volunteer work for Congressman Rob Wittman, handing out literature at the Port Royal Precinct in Caroline County. At about 4:25 PM, an SUV pulled up and I got up from my chair, picked up some [...]