Amazing how a braying mob, political intimidation, and the word “racism” being thrown around, makes the evidence for guilt so much more compelling and convincing. This isn’t the country we’ve been taught to believe it is. Hell, maybe it never was.

I suspect it was the lack of berets, Burberry military jackets, and unholstered billy clubs that did them in. Denying the vote to other humans is unfair. And probably racist. And if it takes inventing prosecutorial powers and locking up some uppity honky mutherfucker to crystalize the points, than that’s something we should be prepared to live with in this, the United States of Benetton. (h/t JHo)

I’ll say it:  were the industrial revolution to try to take place today, we’d all of us still be living in log homes and crapping in ditches. CNS The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforced nearly $500,000 in fines and mandatory “environmental projects” on a school bus contractor for “excessive idling,” and as part of its anti-idling campaign to reduce the carbon footprint of school buses waiting to pick up children

And here I thought the “moral anus of the universe” was Newark. (via TRS; thanks to strangernfiction)

Why do I get the feeling that, could we see Karl Rove’s private whiteboard today, it would look something like this: 1. Get Romney the nomination by wiping out the conservatives, painting the small government message as extreme and fringe, and by manufacturing a sense of inevitability in his candidacy* 2. ?? 3. Profit!       4.  Snack cakes!  x3!