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Some people are just born to be a walking homage to irony.  I just never figured they’d have slavering groupies who took them seriously.  Andy Kaufman excluded.  Naturally.

But, you know:  what difference does it make?  People are dead!  Don’t you wingnuts care about dead Americans — or is it all just about apportioning blame with you people? Ambassador Stevens would be appalled that you have decided to use his death to go on one of your vast right wing conspiratorial witch hunts.  Were that beautiful, loving man still here — and not dead, moldering in the ground,

Yesterday, I called it Stalinesque.  Today, ALG’s Robert Romano has his say, bringing links to bear: Remember the 2009 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a memo on supposed right-wing extremism? It was the one that defined the ideology as “groups, movements, and adherents that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority” and “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such

Here’s the vote.  Only 19 Senate Republicans and no Senate Democrats voted to refuse to give advanced arms, from F-16 fighter jets to tanks, to a country whose putative leader is a Jew-baiting member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Joining the Democrats and the majority of GOP Senators in opposing the Rand Paul bill was AIPAC. Not surprisingly, many conservative mouthpieces are willing to give cover to the likes of John

So you see, when Obama said that the price of your policies will go down and that those who like the coverage they have will be able to keep it, what he really meant — and one can forgive him for the inexactitude of his language, leading to his having been taken out of context, probably by Bush — was “fuck you, suckers.” In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the

— Which just happens to be my birthday, as well.  Yay, me! Now, aging generally puts me in a foul mood, I won’t lie.  But this past year saw the birth of my second boy and the continued growth of pride I feel in my first, so I can’t feel anything but joy today, despite my determination to feel really shitty — not only because I’m getting older, but because