Just got an email from “Ryan Bacon,” the erstwhile moby / troll who, we kinda figured out, is that little anime freak who draws the space titties and hides out on deviantART as “Edgeling.”  If you recall,  once I booted him off the site,  he began emailing me a bunch of anti-semitic garbage — which stopped, once I started referring to him by the name “Joel.”  Whether or not that

Today, at TPM: “This court would not only have to stretch, it would have to abandon and completely overrule a lot of modern precedent, which would do grave damage to this court, in its credibility and power,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D), a former attorney general of Connecticut. “The court commands no armies, it has no money; it depends for its power on its credibility. The only reason people obey

Iconography!

In North Carolina this time! And no.  I wasn’t, either. So.  As the list of participants is strikingly similar to that of BlogCon 2011, I can only conclude that I evidently didn’t make such a great impression in Denver.  Or else I was completely forgettable.  Kinda like my blog, after c.  2008-9. Either way. — Not that I could have gone anyway:  my wife is expecting our second son on

You just thought I did because you are all racist haters who are too stupid to understand the nuances of my non-blaming of right wing whites for the perpetuation of dangerous stereotypes that, because they are perpetuated and given political legitimacy by racist hatey right wing bitter clingers, may have lethal consequences. Which is not the same as blaming any of these white right wing racists and their covert, dog-whistle

Wow. Keep in mind as you read that this is a SCOTUS Justice — one who, had she not been elevated to the Court, might well have been the person arguing this case on behalf of the Obama Administration. Here’s the exchange with Paul Clement, attorney representing the 26 states, who was giving his oral argument: Mr. Clement: “Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the court.  The constitutionality of

…Along with the NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus, etc. “So much hate,” he says. Reached for comment, President Obama’s black half was reportedly outraged by this pussy-ass cracker’s presumptuousness. While his white half, truth be told, kinda sees the old dude’s point. (thanks to JHo)

ABC News released police station surveillance video of George Zimmerman supposedly showing his lack of injuries — the suggestion being that the original police reports, statements made by the police, etc., and subsequent narrative of events offered by the police and prosecutors office were all either false or, at the very least, embellished.  And this, in turn, would suggest a grand and orchestrated conspiracy that began either before the first

CNS: Rep. Trent Frank (R.-Ariz.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, says Congress should hold a hearing to examine the inadvertantly recorded remarks in which President Barack Obama asked outgoing Russian President and soon-to-be Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to ask incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin to give Obama some “space” because he will have “more flexibility” after the November presidential election here in the United States. Franks described