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Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Spot the Not #123 - Steven Seagal movies

All the following are real movies starring him except one. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Sheep Impact

2. Cyborg Nemesis

3. Today You Die

4. Driven to Kill

5. Infinite Vengeance

6. Clementine

Spot the Not #122 - Jessica Valenti

Two of the following are real quotes from her. Can you Spot the Not?


1. The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.

2. Businesses have no right to interfere in the personal lives of their employees by denying access to birth control.

3. Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Monday, June 23, 2025

Spot the Not #121 - Paul Krugman

Two of the following are real quotes from him. Can you Spot the Not?


1. But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

2. The Austrians are the Flat Earth Society of economics. No qualified economist takes them seriously and no one else should either.

3. On the other side, however, open immigration can't coexist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global.


Spot the Not #120 - Amanda Marcotte, part 2

Two of the following are real quotes from her. Can you Spot the Not?


1. Part of me wishes that fundie home schoolers found that raising children to deny basic reality will have a long-term detriment to those kids' futures, but unfortunately, going to public school is no guard against believing that everything out of your limited understanding must be magic.

2. What really irritates me about the Tea Baggers is not just the mind-bendingly stupid shit they believe, but the flimsy fig leaf of "small government" they paste over their racism against the first black president.

3. Banning abortion should have the same social esteem as forcing women to wear the hijab, forcing kids to say the rosary in school, or banning non-kosher food from restaurants -- and outrageous violation of the right to choose your own religious beliefs.

Spot the Not #119 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Two of the following are real quotes from her. Can you Spot the Not?

1. A clear reading of the 2nd amendment in context clearly shows no unrestricted right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

2. I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

3. Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

Spot the Not #118 - Debbie Wasserman-Schulz

Two of the following are real quotes from her. Can you Spot the Not?

1. At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

2. This past election was tough. We must do a better job of clearly articulating our accomplishments to the American people.

3. Obama has worked night and day to turn this country around, and the Republicans have done nothing but obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. Mr. Speaker, "no" is not a plan for moving this country forward.

Spot the Not #117 - Valerie Jarret

Two of the following are real quotes from her. Can you Spot the Not?

1. Hope and change isn't just a campaign slogan- we mean it.

2. Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.

3. A new era of responsibility is here.