Which, for me, presents a simple solution: have it tattooed on your neck. That’s been my plan for a while now. And I think it may just be time to do it. As Squid has pointed out on several occasions here, the rattle snake is a gracious creature, its rattle acting as a warning to those who may wish to continue invading its space or poking at it with a

Sometimes in order to be seen as transparent, it’s best to bury those things that, were they released, would create the kinds of problems that transparency can sometimes create — particularly when reality resists your will, and engages in institutionalized racism in order to thwart your altruistic plans to save Americans from their own stupidity and lack of deference to their betters. Freedom would be cool and all; unfortunately, it’s

Ezra Klein, at the Netroots conference in 2008, talks about the the deceptive strategy underlying ObamaCare. Bringing me to an important point about these types that isn’t much discussed:  for all their talk about community, they literally step over each other to lay claim the certain ideas or arguments — and in fact are so intent on making sure their intellectual fellow travelers recognize them for their unique genius that

“Obama In Straightjacket Costume Gets Employees ‘Sensitivity Training’“. Sometimes you have to destroy the first amendment in order to save it.  For the right people.  

It’s like contributing to Thanksgiving, only instead of having to eat dry turkey or some godawful cream corn casserole, you don’t. You’re welcome! update: I realize the site was out for a bit, so that might explain the slow month thus far. Another explanation is that, unlike Sally Fields, you’re just not that into me any more. Which is cool. Either way, thanks so much to those who’ve pitched in.

Sometimes you have to destroy the first amendment in order to save it. For the right people.

Just in time for a day that pays homage to nightmares, national or otherwise. (h/t Glenn Reynolds)

Here. In the United States of America. Sure, fine. But they have the right motives for their fascist behavior, namely, the Greater Good. And if individual Americans continue to presume they are free to break from the goodliness of the community and express their own thoughts, in direct defiance of the wishes of the benevolent State, should they not be called out for such a deliberate attempt at undermining the

But then, that’s only a problem because the great unwashed don’t know what’s best for them.  That’s Obama‘s job. No, really. It’s right there in the Constitution — or at least, it would be, were the old racist thing not such a flawed document, written by withered white men who knew little about sacrifice or creating a sense of community.  

Avik Roy, Forbes: Obamacare’s disruption of the existing health insurance market—a disruption codified in law, and known to the administration—is only just beginning. And it’s far broader than recent media coverage has implied. […] If you read the Affordable Care Act when it was passed, you knew that it was dishonest for President Obama to claim that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan,” as he did—and