Ever since Nixon, the American Right has essentially given up on facts, logic, and evidence, preferring to focus on comic book narratives wherein they’re always the plucky, all-American heroes, fighting valiantly against forces of pure evil. Unable to sell the efficacy of any of their policy goals on the merits, the world has been imaginatively [...]
Sheesh. Seems like Mary Cheney and the Park Ranger have another little turkey baster bun in the oven, trust fund already set up, while the rest of America has all but stopped having babies due to the havoc wrought by Grandpa and his organ grinder monkey. That’s nice. Stories like these make it difficult at [...]
Just when most Amercans were beginning to think that part of our problem might be that we’re in too many wars, the Washington Ignoratti declare, with the characteristic oracular certainty that is their unfortunate hallmark, that the real problem is too few. After all, where’s our 9/12 spirit, now that all those hypothetically glorious wars [...]
It’s nice to hear, amid the relentlessly gloomy news on the employment front, that several sectors of the economy have many well-paid jobs for which there is a perennial shortage of applicants, and show no sign of either downsizing or pay cuts. Indeed, if any of the “talent,” were to get fed up and leave, [...]
When George Bush was catapulted into office in 2000 by a convoluted decision of a thoroughly corrupted Supreme Court, after having lost the popular vote, he and his cronies rolled into town like a conquering army, determined to ram through a radical political agenda they’d been careful not to emphasize on the campaign trail, where [...]
I have a confession to make, somewhat reluctantly: I’m starting to turn into a teabagger. It’s been a slow but inexorable process that forcibly began when then-Senator Obama completely capitulated on the FISA bill during the campaign, but as the health care debacle has unfolded, I’ve found that I practically need a spreadsheet to keep [...]
Glenn Greenwald wrote about the problem of our hereditary overclass the other day at Salon, but every day it burns me up a little more as it becomes more jaw-droppingly conspicuous, and anger is perhaps the greatest cure for writer’s block ever imagined. As we descend further into “oligarhy,” as Glenn Beck might put it, [...]
UPDATE: Alert Hag reader Sysprog noted, tastefully by email, that my original attribution of “Don’t confuse me with the facts,” and therefore kinda the whole point of this post, were not actually the words of Roman Hruska, but rather the similarly addled Earl Landgrebe. Those wingnuts all look (and sound) alike to me. Someone in [...]
That was the rather laughably unlikely explanation an ex of mine once gave for the astonishingly rapid disappearance of a half gallon of gin, but it was admittedly delivered tongue-in-cheek. Not so laughably, however, we now are hearing from the CIA, in its heavily redacted document dump, that quite a lot of detainees were simply [...]
I can only conclude based on what I’ve seen over the last few decades, but particularly over the last few years, that the rich really are different from the overwhelming majority of humanity, and it’s not because of some special effort on their part, although behind the scenes it is, but it’s because we’ve made [...]