Those of you who have been paying close attention may know that my folks moved into assisted living in Florida a few weeks ago. So, on the spur of the moment, I decided to take the family down there to get a look at their situation and help them with whatever I can. Brendan’s headed off to college in the fall, so in a way this is our last chance

Pam Spaulding is one of those libs who honestly seems to believe that the Tea Parties are all about Whitey getting his hate on because the POTUS is black. There’s nothing new about this. It’s the same meme that they were spouting prior to the election, when they were saying that the only reason one mightn’t vote for Obama was racism. Obviously, then, she quotes with approval J’inane Garofalo’s asinine

“Politics is about who’s got the best list.” Petticoats gratefully accepted. Meanwhile, in Obamatopia: Why does Hugo Chavez hate us? Is it because Bush’s ‘dead or alive’ed him or ‘with us or against us”ed him? Hardly. Chavez wants to end democracy in Venezuela for good, turn it into a Cuba-like communist dictatorship, use his oil revenues to whip up liberationist, anti-Yanqui feelings throughout South America, and end up with himself

Janeane Garofalo: “Listen, the whole ‘teabagging’ thing (not that there’s anything wrong with that, mind you, because nobody loves them the gays more than I do, and some of my best friends will drop their balls in each other’s mouths faster than you can say ‘lick the shaft, Paco’)…? It’s not your fault, really. It’s your limbic brain. Pressing up against the brain pan. Causes your synapses to misfire. And

On the “liberal” / classical liberal divide, this much can be said: the more things change, the more they stay the same: Consequently the political design of Tory measures was uniformly to increase the coercive power of the government over the individual and enlarge its range of action. The design of Whig measures, and subsequently Liberal measures, was uniformly to decrease the government’s coercive power and to reduce its range

103 days? Really? Really? From Reason TV: Jonah Goldberg: According to that reason video I posted below, Americans work an average of 103 days a year just to pay their taxes. If you had to work 365 days a year to pay your taxes, that would be a kind of slavery or indentured servitude, because all of your productive labor would be going to the government. You would have no

I’m shocked, shocked: An investment company once run by the head of the Obama administration’s auto task force has been accused of paying more than $1 million to an aide to New York’s former comptroller in a bid to win a lucrative deal with the state pension fund. Steven Rattner was an executive at the Quadrangle Group, a private equity firm, until he left this year to lead President Barack

A follow-up to Jeff’s post from yesterday, John Ziegler talks about his ordeal at USC, where he attempted to interview people going to the awards ceremony for Katie Couric for her stellar work interviewing Sarah Palin.  Fascism with a frowny face. David Thompson also posted on the subject yesterday, a short bit worth your reading. Clearly, the USC Campus Police were impressed by the DHS warning about dangerous right-wing extremists. 

Hmmmmmmmmm . . . I’m pretty sure I side with Glenn Beck on this.

May I raise a practical question at this point? Are these the kinds of “moderates” we’re supposed to be trying to win over? These? These? Also, are we going to do “Stonehenge” tomorrow? Face it: At some point you just have to point and laugh at midgets clad in tights dancing around a wrongly-scaled hunk of styrofoam to the plaintive pluckings of a lyre. And fuck ’em if they can’t