I have to offer a turban tip to Sysprog, who informed me in the last thread that the incomparable James O’Keefe, the twenty-something righty True Believer whose questionably edited “sting” videos of ACORN have already landed him in legal hot water, has struck again. This time, the adenoidal nincompoop was attempting, with three of his [...]
Tomorrow, the Hag will be one year old. (Not the actual Hag, obviously, just the site…) It seemed something of an odd moment for a commie/liberal/socialist/utopian* like myself to start a blog, given that the evil Republicans had just been tossed out on their doughy asses, and we all looked forward to a bright new [...]
Among the punditocracy, which bears so much responsibility for the current disaster in which we find ourselves, the current consensus is that the Democrats are set to lose, and lose big, in November. Of course, since this is the same bunch that bathed Karl Rove’s “Permanent Republican Majority” in the flattering amber glow of inevitability [...]
“There are many bad men around the world who run countries and we don’t topple them, and indeed in earlier years we had actually supported Saddam Hussein when he was fighting against Iran. The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for [...]
UPDATE: The completely unpredicted blizzard that started as I wrote this post is getting bigger and bigger. Picture below. Elephants have always made a problematic mascot for the GOP: they’re fat, which raises uncomfortable associations with the fat cats the party tirelessly champions; they supposedly have excellent memories, which means that if they were humans [...]
It’s difficult to pinpoint when the Right figured out that lying was the path to victory, but in the years since Watergate, it’s become not just an expedient stalling tactic for difficult situations, but a way of life. Lying was still considered somewhat distasteful back then, as was the case when, inundated with a wave [...]
Perhaps there’s some significance to the fact that I just ran across Time Magazine’s November 24 article, “A Decade From Hell” on the morning of Black Friday, only to find that that discredited, desperate, and clueless publication blames the disastrous first decade of the 21st century on everything except the despicable media malpractice that made [...]
I’m well aware that facts are irrelevant when it comes to Repugs and RWCAs. They daily show American voters their exceptional hypocrite skills and choice of choosing power over facts and what is best for our nation. On Obama’s trip to Japan, they saw our president bending low when greeting the Emperor and immediately concluded [...]
UPDATED BELOW: It’s certainly no mystery why the GOP and its fanboys at Fox and elsewhere are always on the attack. Aside from the fact that only 20% of Americans will still reluctantly admit to being Republicans, the other 80% are always susceptible to inconvenient facts slipping into the conversation, which would clearly make an [...]
One of my favorite books to emerge from the Watergate era, and there are many, is Jonathan Schell’s The Time of Illusion. In it, Schell discusses the myriad ways that the Nixon Administration created a world where truth didn’t matter; wars were fought, laws were made and lives were either exalted or destroyed based on [...]