The Onion is superfluous [Darleen Click]
Depressingly not parody When the doctor holds your child up to the harsh light of the delivery room, looks between its legs, and declares his opinion: It’s a boy or a girl, based on nothing more than a cursory assessment of your offspring’s genitals. Biological sex is opinion? Tell me again how it is that conservatives are sneered at as “anti-science”? With infant gender assignment, in a single moment your
The blue pill [Darleen Click]
Related — IWonPenPhone whines about how hard it is to be The Prez. Maybe he thought a crown and scepter were involved? “They don’t do anything! Except block me! And, and, and call me names.”
IRS Combined timelines: the scandal is in the details
I meant to post this the other day, but life got in the way, and for that I apologize. From an email sent me by our own estimable geoff B: Below I have put together 3 different timelines of the IRS scandal from the Senate Finance committee, CBS news, and Discover the Networks plus the image timeline from Doug Ross […] All the timeline after 5/17/2013 is from the Discover
PC-Obsessed Writer Outraged Military Uses Indian Names For Its Attack Helicopters…
Oh for fuck’s sake. Not to keep beating this horse, but it’s always about language. And that’s because language controls thought and thought, when driven to consent, either affirmatively or through tacit surrender, secures power, from which all else derives. Nobody pretending to outrage over this gives a tinker’s damn about Native American dignity. They care about controlling language and by doing so, controlling thought and collecting power. There’s nothing
About that 9-0 ruling about Obama’s unconstitutional recess appointment
Yesterday, when the news broke, I was a bit, shall we say, blase, about the whole thing — my attitude toward the decision being that it doesn’t much matter, because in our current political climate laws are either ignored, rewritten, or upheld without regard to their constitutionality. And it turns out that further digging, courtesy of Mark Levin last evening, reveals that the decision, while it acts as a rebuke
BREAKING: Enough improper votes to overturn a Cochran “victory”?
I don’t know, but there may be enough evidence and resulting unease to secure another run-off, if the political pressure mounts. And let the NRSC and the US Chamber of Commerce come right out up front and use money donated by Republicans to court liberal Democrat voters then. That’d be a hoot to watch, don’t you think? (thanks to DarthLevin)
Have you heard this?
Via Mark Levin: 1/3 of the money spent in primaries against conservatives / constitutionalists / TEA Party candidates has been spent by the US Chamber of Commerce. Establishment Republicanism and corporatism go hand in glove, it seems. Though today it doesn’t wear the same name as it did when, say, Mussolini was all into it. Probably because today it wears an American flag pin on its lapel.
My response to the GOP pragmatists
I wrote this originally to Adjoran and Dana in the comments to TOM’s post on Cochran’s “victory,” but I want it placed here for the record. Adjoran wrote: Seems to me Cochran WAS as good as buried, but somebody dropped the ball. Somebody tried to play dirty, and it blew up on them. It’s a bit late for that side to complain about rough politics. This is, of course, the
Everything you need to know about the GOP establishment, contemporary American politics, a de facto one party ruling class system, and the death of representative government — all in under 140 characters
The single thing keeping this Tweet from being an utter, crystalized bit of metaphysical perfection is that the number turned out to be 45, and not — as Douglas Adams would have had it — 42. Which to someone of my mindset is a crying shame. But it is what it is. (h/t TOM)