I’ve been fascinated all weekend, but hardly surprised, by the growing Sheriff Paul Babeu scandal. The script is drearily familiar: a grandstanding right-winger gets caught with his pants down and is revealed as a gigantic hypocrite, then he doubles down, lies about significant details, and aims to brazen it out. Why not? It worked for [...]
Nobody likes me; everybody hates me. I think I’ll go out and eat some worms. That little childhood ditty rings in my ears as I read about how Republicans are fighting the apocalyptic battle they have set up this fall’s elections to be; through whining, cheating, and dirty tricks, and doing other disgusting things that [...]
Now, I know Santorum’s people are just as big of religious nuts as Rick himself, but can they really be that sheltered, too? Have they ever used the google? Or, is frothy brown stuff something you want to put in your ad intentionally? You, know, to get it all out in the open right away. [...]
There was an absurd, likely planted story in Politico today about how Fox News had “moved to the left” here lately. I, personally, see no evidence of this. Looking at their website, a grueling, thankless task that was evidently too much for Politico, I noticed that every article was either Obama-bashing, Republican-fellating, or included celebrity [...]
The Republicans dropped a log today that they euphemistically called a “Transportation Bill,” and to no one’s surprise it’s a monument to Teabaggery, etched in asphalt. You see, it isn’t enough to just hate gays, the poor, Muslims, and all the usual suspects, constantly expressing that hate in every utterance, but it turns out that [...]
In about the least surprising development one could possibly imagine, cardboard cutout Mitt Romney “won” Florida, or more accurately, “bought” Florida. Turns out that fetid swampland is more expensive than you’d think; Romney’s completely unrelated and totally coincidental Super PAC ponied up the cash for 13,000 television ads to battle Newt’s, uh, 200. 96% percent [...]
Each day, I thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for the UK’s Guardian. Where else can an American go to find out what the rest of the world thinks of us? Certainly not Kaplan’s loss leader, the WaPoo, and undoubtedly not Judy Miller’s old place, the New York Times. That unusually worthwhile newspaper reported today that, [...]
It seems that while we have been kept distracted by the nonsense (and flatulence) emanating from the Republican Clown Car, our Global Betters have decided it’s high time for another war, with Iran, natch. To wit: (from The Guardian) “The Iranian programmes are proceeding apace and represent a strategic threat,” said the diplomat. “The aim [...]
It was a telling moment when Mitt Romney said that niggling little things like the massive income inequality that’s turned out so phenomenally well, for him anyway, ought only be discussed in “Quiet rooms,” where, presumably, the servants couldn’t hear. It seems that after the recent unpleasantness, the rich are hurriedly drawing the portieres [...]
One of the presidential candidates came out today to argue for lower corporate tax rates, increased domestic drilling for fossil fuels, and less government regulations on business, following an earlier push to get rid of whole departments of the federal government. Rick Perry? Naw, everything was pronounced correctly. Mitt Romney? Nope, too straightforward. Gingrich? Much [...]