Glimpses Into the Wingnut Mind
British journalist Johann Hari went semi-undercover aboard the National Review’s annual cruise, which presumably attracts their most extreme right-wing readers.
I am standing waist-deep in the Pacific Ocean, both chilling and burning, indulging in the polite chit-chat beloved by vacationing Americans. A sweet elderly lady from Los Angeles is sitting on the rocks nearby, telling me [...]
Florida Representative Arrested for Solicitation
Senator John McCain can’t catch a break. His campaign appears to be falling apart, his South Carolina chair was arrested on drug charges, and now this from Florida (State) Rep. Bob Allen, co-chair of McCain’s Florida campaign:
“‘How about across the bridge, it’s quiet over there,” Florida House member and state co-chairman for Sen. John McCain’s [...]
Your Honor, Gay Marriage Violates My Client’s Right to Hate
No, if you don’t like teh gay, and are frightened by the idea of gay marriage, you probably shouldn’t be practicing law in Massachusetts. That isn’t stopping Stephen Dunne from suing after failing the bar exam:
On June 25, 2007, Dunne filed a federal complaint after failing his Massachusetts bar exam with a score of 268.866 [...]
Arrrrrr!
It’s the twenty-first century. Civilization goes global, instantaneous communication links us ever more tightly, and…piracy is on the rise?
There were 85 attacks on ships in the April-June quarter, up from 66 in the same period a year earlier and from 41 in the previous quarter, the London-based International Maritime Bureau said through its piracy reporting [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East, 1970: “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed”
We Get Links…
Heh. Someone hit hit this blog in a search on “spanking.” I’m afraid that I’ve severely disappointed someone!
I appear to be in no immediate danger of being rebranded.
Tempest in a Teapot
But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. —Thomas Jefferson, 1782
Today’s Christian supremacists, though, eager to establish a state religion, are quick to reinvent Jefferson:
On Thursday, a Hindu chaplain from Reno, Nevada, by the [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“We cannot misuse him enough.” —Merry Wives of Windsor, 4.2.94
So What?
Four years late, President Bush seems nearly ready to acknowledge that someone in his administration leaked the name and identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson—thereby compromising all of her work, and endangering the lives of agents and informants—to the press:
A reporter brought up Bush’s decision to commute the prison sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed (Corporal Punishment Edition)
Frank Zappa, featuring Steve Vai: “Stevie’s Spanking”
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