…but it’s, like, over 100-years old, to boot! Grow up, fetishists. The height of sophistication is admitting that the government is restrained by nothing, really — and that we all know it. (h/t sdferr)

Washington Examiner: Jared Loughner, the gunman charged with wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and murdering six others in Tucson on Saturday, held bizarre beliefs about “conscious dreaming” and government mind control imposed through English grammar. No serious person would connect his belief system to a mainstream political ideology. But then there’s New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. He places the blood libel of blame for the Tucson murders squarely on

Aid and comfort: Some Republicans responded with indignation—why should the alleged act of an apparently deranged young man with a record of barely coherent, and only vaguely ideological rantings get charged to their account? Others acknowledged what they called an unavoidable reality—flamboyant or incendiary anti-government rhetoric of the sort used by many conservative politicians, commentators and tea party activists for the time being will carry a stigma. A senior Republican

But it’s the Tea Partiers who are craven, intolerant, and dangerous. Just so you know. Remember: dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Unless crazed extremist rightwingers who actually believe the Constitution “binding” (I mean, come on. It’s over 100 years old, for Chrissakes!) are doing the dissenting. Then it needs to be stamped out by, say, the Fairness Doctrine, or some kind of new legislation that would eliminate the

via Trace Gallagher, being interviewed by Sean Hannity. Not sure what’s going on here, but I thought it worth mentioning. Also worth mentioning: Giffords is able to move and respond to simple commands (Gallagher intimated on both on the left and right side) suggesting that she’s able to process language (her eloquence brain seems unaffected) and retains gross motor function. Developing…

As a rough estimate, about 51,999,999 households, responsible for the legal care of 259,999,999 guns, did not shoot up a political meetup at a Safeway this weekend — despite the climate of overheated political rhetoric and conservative-bred HATE that practically compels them to do so. You’re welcome.

Bullitt, Hot Rock, Friend of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, The Deep, Eyewitness… They don’t make ’em like that anymore. And don’t even get me started on Mother, Jugs & Speed…

Tommy is Rae Dawn…: Is America becoming less politically stable? A glance at some foreign newspapers would certainly give that impression. This is an important economic question. The global primacy of Treasury bonds and the dollar stems mostly from the nation’s massive economic might. But confidence in U.S. political stability also plays a role. The shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, though tragic, shouldn’t alter those perceptions — unless freedom

So says Pennsylvania’s Bob Brady who, in response to the Arizona shootings, plans to introduce a bill that would ban heated rhetoric and symbolism that, well, some interpretive community (presumably made up of those “reasonable people” who happen to be in power at any given time, having weighed all the pros and cons of determining how their ruling might payoff politically) determines is threatening. Having myself been told that my

Quick! We must act now! Maybe later, when the smoke clears, we can ask Congress for our freedoms back. I’m sure they’ll happily comply.