I hate the GOP establishment The left is what it is, and it is going to try to do what it’s going to try to do. Whereas the GOP establishment? Is far worse, in my opinion. Because, though it pretends to back our principles, it doesn’t — and in fact, establishment Republicans actively attack any and all who do advocate for classical liberal principles as “threats” to their “leadership,” which

Paul Krugman phones in a column bad enough to unwind the tightest cocoon: Yes, Medicare Is Sustainable In Its Current Form [mockery in bold] I keep seeing people say that Medicare in its current form is not sustainable, as if that were an established fact. It’s anything but. [According to the people who run Medicare, in it’s current form it runs out of money around 2024.] What is Medicare? [Class?

Pshaw. Don’t you know who I am? Rules are for subjects. Not for rulers. Recognize, bitches.

1. First, our old friend Ric Locke has published a sci-fi novel, available in digital format Amazon. At $2.99, you couldn’t go wrong even if what you are getting is mostly meh. But this is Ric Locke. So what you’ll be getting is not only interesting, but likely sprinkled with a bit of genius, as well. Get a copy. Support the arts. Without having some ridiculous New York gatekeeper decide

I haven’t heard this mentioned — granted, I haven’t been paying close attention — but in the midst of the latest media distraction / dissembling / erroneous grounpthink over Sarah Palin’s supposed Paul Revere gaffe (in which, yet again, she showed herself more knowledgeable than those who presumed to sniff at her mistake), people seem to have missed her suggestion that, while a year ago she would have completely rejected

1. wake up, thank Jesus or whomever for pre-Mr Roboto Styx. 2. prepare a pot of slow-cooked chicken chili 3. support the indiscriminate killing of old people whose bodies will “literally” litter the streets as a result of any attempt to cut the size of the federal government and control spending. Plus, screw the children. And the poor. And maybe have a Greek-style yogurt. 4. check out kennels for the

imitating Nazi Germany. You can’t make this shit up. Incidentally, when we said never again? We meant it. Fair warning.

CHOICE! But no worries. Such an argument is unlikely to impress Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, who as Solicitor General assigned the man making this argument, acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, to the task of defending it. Conflicts of interest only apply to conservative justices. Liberal justices, by virtue of the liberality, are as a biological fact free from such taint. No, really. There have been scientific studies that say

* 9. “This Jesus guy. He’s supposed to be, like, totally forgiving, right?” 8. “If we hurry, I can still put the Mavericks out of their misery…” 7. “That’s doctor death to you, honey.” 6. (tie) “Rosebud” / “pentobarbital” 5. “And your little dog, too!” 4. “Howsabout a really quick handjob?” 3. “Anybody else smell bologna?” 2. “When mercy killing is outlawed, only outlaws will inject depressed people with lethal

— at least, that’s how I’m guessing the mainstream media narrative, throwing in with the environmental non-profits (who have no political agenda or leanings whatever, and so are pure as the driven snow, that by 2010 most children will never see again, and by 1995 will be covering the earth, depending on who you listened to), will soon take shape, particularly once word of this leaks out on a wider