Saddled as they are with a great many aberrant and discredited ideas, Republicans have developed a neat way around this seemingly sticky problem, one that plays into the shallow and narrative-driven way the media covers the news; ad hominem attacks in place of engaging critics’ ideas. The dumber, meaner, and more disastrous the idea, [...]
When I read about the Republican’s numerically laughable but nonetheless attention-getting strategy for opposing the confirmation of Sonia (or Maria, or whatever, the gal with the mop), Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, I’m once again embarrassed to be a Democrat. Those Republicans have their flaws, but failing at political theatre is not among them. [...]
I got home today, and as I usually do, popped into Glenn Greenwald at Salon, to see if he’d gotten all Greenwaldian and put up another post while I was at work, knowing that if he hadn’t, the letters would have poured in since 6:00am and it could take a whole bottle of something to [...]
Owing to the rampant criminality now pervading the right that got its toehold a quite few years before Nixon felt the need to say, at Disney World no less, “I am not a crook,” Republicans have adopted a curiously paradoxical soft-on-crime strategy; turning its proven criminals, one and all, in to what might generously be [...]
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 [...]