POLITICAL PLAYTHINGS

In free enterprise America, you can go shopping for and purchase an angry mob. I don’t mean just a few “action figures,” either.

Fruits Of Teh Crazy Tree

Mugshot of Jared Loughner after massacring  six and wounding fourteen When asked if his daughter, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), currently in a medically induced coma after taking a bullet to the brain,  had any political enemies, Spencer Giffords replied: “Yeah, the whole Tea Party.” While at present there is no direct line of evidence linking Jared Loughner to the Tea …

“exremism” ® us UPDATED

So how far do Americans let these sociopaths go? You know the answer to that as well as I do: somebody must die a senseless death at the hands of one of these intraspecies predators.

Republicans Eating Their Own

Gays and Muslims and Compromisers, oh my! Well, February is rapidly approaching and with it the next edition of the Conference of Conservative Political Action Committee, aka CPAC. We’ve enjoyed covering the Wingnut Woodstock conferences here at US.; see here, here, and here. But a dark undercurrent is roiling ‘neath the Winger Sea, a rip-tide that could rip this year’s …

Limbaugh’s Last Discharge

Thanksgiving for Comedian/Bloviator Rush Limbaugh wasn’t anything special— just his usual ugly and debased spewing.

EVOLUTION IS A MYTH, OR: RETROGRADE STUPID

One half the world is grasping eagerly for the light of truth and the facts of scientific discovery, while the other half languishes in the arms of ancient superstition and but thinly disguised magic.

RAND PAUL: UNPLUGGED & UNHINGED

Why do I get the feeling that this guy is juggling hatchets inside his head?