In today’s LA Times, the occasionally lucid Tim Rutten, evidently having a bad brain day, writes the following: If you reengage the American media after a month out of the country, as I’ve done this week, it’s hard not to conclude that hysteria is now the dominant characteristic of our politics and civic conversation. Uh, [...]
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 [...]
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