ZOMG!! We must think of the children!! New Jersey police and Dept. of Children and Families officials raided the home of a firearms instructor and demanded to see his guns after he posted a Facebook photo of his 11-year-old son holding a rifle. “Someone called family services about the photo,” said Evan Nappen, an attorney representing Shawn Moore. “It led to an incredible, heavy-handed raid on his house. They wanted

— Which, as it happens, turns out to be a promise for insanity, if we buy the colloquial definition of insanity as repeating the same action over and over and over again and expecting different results. From Extrano’s Alley, in November of 2012: Thanks to a link at The Gun Wire, I see the “New York Times” has an unsigned op-ed titled ‘Promises on Gun Control.’ I will not quote

protein wisdom:  “‘the fuck?  Did you like, miss the ‘autopsy’ report put out by the Bushies for the Bushies that counsels Republicans to embrace the Bushies — and in so doing, ditch the hateful racist misogynistic homophobic nativism (and Asian animus) that for too long has passed for conservative “principle”?   Did you miss the call to eschew the  fringe extremist constitutionalists and fetishizers of small government in order better

Compare and contrast. As it’s all the rage these days, allow me to try my hand at the new “compassionate conservative,” GOP establishment “autopsy” game:  first, I hereby re-brand John Boehner “Barack Obama Light” — though not for lack of tanning.  Second,  I hereby re-brand the GOP House leadership, which on three occasions recently caucused with Democrats against its own majority, and has scrapped the Hastert Rule (which I’ve re-branded