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Saturday’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, featuring a deluded Glenn Beck cheerleading his equally deluded if devoted followers, wasn’t really a rally, not like you and I understand rallies to be. It wasn’t political, Beck insisted — calling on his followers not to bring signs so as to avoid the racist bullshit his folks generally bring with them...
It’s too late, baby
Carole King wasn’t singing about the fight to save our democracy, but she might as well have been. It finally hit me this weekend, a whirlwind of a weekend it was, that it really is too late.
I see no signs of the Obama administration getting a clue, ditto the Democrats in Congress. Even our beloved progressives are too busy dissing Obama to affect any real change, not that we could even if...
Is he serious?
Michael Brown, former FEMA director, obviously thinks he didn’t do enough damage to New Orleans back when Katrina hit, so he’s doing his radio show (isn’t that what all useless Republicans end up doing — the ones who can’t get gigs lobbying?) from the Crescent City for the anniversary of his greatest failure. I guess there’s just nothing else to say but … Heckuva...
What conservatives don’t know can hurt you
Some of what conservatives believe defies logic. OK, a lot of it does. But far too much of it defies the truth. And I can’t figure out if they’re willfully lying or if they just simply don’t understand.
I suspect it’s both — their “leaders,” if, by leaders you mean craven hypocrites who would sell their mother and infant children if it kept them in power, know...
Dear conservatives who think the founders were conservative:
What part of “fought a revolution” and “created a revolutionary form of government” actually fits with the definition of conservative?
Just wondering,
Nunzia
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The reality of being Sarah
I seriously don’t want to write about Sarah Palin — mostly because I’d like to avoid the chorus of “Why does Sarah Palin frighten liberals so much,” since she doesn’t — but she just won’t go away. Besides, something hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks the other day, and after I cleared the rubble and dressed the cuts and scratches, I knew I should...
Ugly Americans
Mostly, I understand the idiocies and incoherence of the right. I think it’s a load of bullshit, but I understand how they get to these places of pure stupidity. I also understand that it’s their choices that led them there — their completely wrong choices, their frightened and combative decisions on dealing with a changing and complex world.
It’s all about trying to make things...
Out of touch with reality
One hundred rightwing bloggers were asked to list their 25 worst people in American history. Forty-three responded. FDR (3), Barack Obama (2), Ted Kennedy (7) and Lyndon Johnson (7) are all worse than Timothy McVeigh (9). Margaret Sanger is just as bad (11) as John Wilkes Booth. Woodrow Wilson and Benedict Arnold are equally bad (5). And the No. 1 worst person to ever live in the Unites States of America...
Compassionate conservativism at work
From Miami Herald editorial cartoonist Jim Morin, more conservative values.
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2 sides to every story
There are two sides to every story, or so the conventional wisdom goes. And if you watch or read or listen to my colleagues for any length of time, you’d think that was exactly true.
But the second side to that story — that there are always two sides — is that there rarely is. Most of the time, there are multiple sides to every story, and sometimes — more often than you’d...
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