I’ve always had a particular loathing for Andrew Sullivan, at least partly because he reminded me, with everything he said, of all the self-hating gay Republicans (and they were shockingly and disappointingly numerous) I met and summarily dumped during my peak tart years. I’ve heard each such drearily unthinking arguments countless times before from someone [...]
When I finally stopped laughing, spraying booze all over, and dumbfoundedly slapping my forehead over Wisconsin Governor (!) Scott Walker’s fawning and delusional 20-minute kiss-up to an anonymous caller unconvincingly posing as uber-oligarch David Koch captured on tape, I got to thinking. What, in heaven’s name, could make a person so gloriously, blindly lacking in [...]
It looks like we have another flamboyant entrant to the right-wing Sore Winners’ Circle in that pudgy, conniving Church Lady, Virginia Thomas, whose husband’s life tenure and political omnipotence as a Supreme Court Justice despite lacking any qualifications for that job, isn’t enough for her. Rather than quietly thanking her lucky stars that the creepy [...]
Well, I’ll be damned, but it seems that Supreme Court Justice (!) Clarence Thomas has practically turned into Malcolm X these days, thanks to his epileptic, dreadlocked, and possibly suicidal nephew, Derek, getting into just the sort of potentially death-dealing scrapes with the law that Thomas has thought were the best thing since sliced bread [...]
Polls are showing that it’s possible Joe Sestak will beat Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania tomorrow; a sweeter outcome I could hardly wish. A Sestak victory would be another nail in the alarmingly perforated coffin of Obama’s silly idea of postpartisanship, and it would also show the voters, unlike the media that [...]
It seems that appointing a Supreme Court justice who might begin to reverse the court’s headlong lurch to the right is yet another example of that anachronistic partisanship that the Obama Administration is proudly leaving behind. A combination of conventional wisdom and bitter experience would indicate that whomever Obama chooses will be at best, a [...]
UPDATED BELOW: That’s the inscription on the front of the Supreme Court building. No, seriously. The part right beneath it where it says “But Some Are More Equal Than Others” may as well be chiseled in now, under a no-bid contract by Halliburton. The court, whose rampantly corporatist wing wouldn’t even exist without its heretofore [...]
One thing I’ve been shamefully neglecting here lately, mostly because it’s all so depressing, is how abundantly clear it is that Americans as a people, and certainly those they choose to lead them, don’t give a rat’s ass about the freedoms we used to brag about. They’ve been methodically flushed down the toilet for years [...]