That’s the good news. The bad news is, they were likely shitfaced when they came up with the data, and on a Leaving Las Vegas, cirrhosis-crazed bender when they finally got around to publishing it. Not that such revelations should deter you from following their advice. I mean, global climate change, right? So you see? There’s precedence for blind faith!

I’m sorry:  but when you’ve pushed Chris Christie, or written to praise Mitt Romney’s conservatism and electability, you pretty much lose any credibility with those of us who still believe in representative government.  So it’s probably best not to try to pass yourself off as anything other than an establishment-humping book hawker.  Because we aren’t buying it. Just as we aren’t buying your books any longer. So does it surprise

“Stop listening to the evil assholes who, with their voices or their pens or their computers or their activism, continue to fight my attempt to fundamentally transform this wretched capitalistic country.  That flawed document you crackers all fetishize, the Constitution, and the rich white slave owners who drafted the ridiculous and largely obstructionist thing, would want you to do just that:  shut up and let the professional political class manage

And why is he “embarrassed”?  Because it turns out he’d formed his beliefs about the acumen of those who identify as TEA Partiers — he had expected them to be slightly dumb and not terribly scientifically inclined (and I’d add, probably RACIST!) — from reading the New York Times, or Politico, or the Huffington Post.  Which, that’s not terribly scientific now, is it? To his credit, however, the professor, Dan