Boy howdy, The Dick’s lesbian daughter and her “partner” done pizzizzled off The Parents Group. I hate to actually excerpt anything from this release because it’s all so good, but let me see if I can find an especially juicy bit. Ah, here’s one: If the Vice President and his wife Lynne are joining their daughter Mary in playing this
Read moreIn my series of posts on the whole melamine poisoning issue recently you might recall me breaking off the term “e Coli conservatives” in talking about how our regulatory function has been co-opted by people who see protecting industry as a more important calling than protecting, you know, us. Well, y’all are gonna love this latest development. U.S. government fights
Read moreVirek must have seen it too; he screamed, and Baron Samedi, Lord of Graveyards, the loa whose kingdom was death, leaned in across Barcelona like a cold dark rain. – William Gibson, Count Zero I miss Hunter Thompson. Always, but especially on days like today, where I’m contemplating what the Democratic leadership has done to the sense of relief I
Read moreFor a few moments there it seemed like the new Dem “leadership” had really gotten its act together. Now, though, it begins to look like they’re the very gutless dupes that Republicans have been telling us they are for so long. They have “reached out” to President Bush, and using a mandate backed by a good 70% of the public
Read moreTo some extent, science has always been more shaped by political realities and pressures than we usually admit. After all, science is “objective,” done properly, and when we look at a scientific study we like to think we’re looking at the best approximation of fact and truth possible at the present moment. Of course, this is hardly so. Say you
Read moreI doubt we’ll get the comment approved. But here’s what I submitted to the God’s Hitlist page at Shelley the Republican: Seriously, this is all pretty offensive. I’ve turned this godforsaken site inside-out and can’t find a single mention of either me or Scholars & Rogues, and I promise you, God hates us a lot worse than he does some
Read moreOkay, first Mitt made up some wack story about 7-year French marriage contracts. Then he made up that Sueng-Hui Cho shot up Virginia Tech because of video games and the devil rock. (Link.) Now his magical mystery tour takes on foreign policy: Saddam had WMDs but he hid them in Syria. Okay, okay – Saddam may have hid WMDs in
Read moreHere are 15 words that ought to get your attention: “…salaried Elections Division employee who had a side-business of selling voter data to Republicans…” Props to Square State for staying on top of this one. A few S&R folks live in Colorado, so this is closer to home for us. But if it’s happening here, what are the odds it’s
Read moreMitt Romney said a couple curious things Saturday. Fortunately for him, he did so at Regent “University,” which isn’t a place you’re likely to encounter a lot of critical thinking. The most entertaining assertion was this bit: “It seems that Europe leads Americans in this way of thinking,” Romney told the crowd of more than 5,000. “In France , for
Read moreI have to admit to a bit of conflict here: Bush threatens to veto expansion of hate-crime law — The long-debated bill would expand the federal law to include violent acts motivated by a victim’s sexual orientation, gender or disability. WASHINGTON — The House, defying a fresh veto threat, passed legislation today to expand the federal hate-crime law to include
Read moreOne of the reasons our mission here at S&R is as broad as it is – our writers address cultural forms like literature and popular music as well as the hardball political issues that directly shape our public lives – emerges in part from my own feeling that too much politics is tough on the soul. It’s necessary, of course,
Read moreTom Schaller has a fascinating take today on the evolution of the political center. To use his analogy, it’s evolved from a one-humped camel to a two-humped dromedary, statistically speaking. The one thing media talking heads agree upon is that the center prevails. Turn on almost any of the nation’s political talk shows and pretty soon somebody will say how
Read moreThinkProgress has compiled a compelling side-by-side numbers chart comparing the sitch in Iraq today with where it was when Dubya pulled his little Top Gun stunt and declared victory. Warning: these numbers aren’t pretty.
Read moreThe melamine-spiking story continues to build, and so far nothing about it offers any reason for comfort. HorsesAss offers a mortifying blow-by-blow here, and after reading it you have to wonder not whether you have Chinese melamine in your system, but how much. He also points to the curious tone and timing of a joint USDA/FDA release that tries awfully
Read moreNothing’s quite as entertaining as watching a politician being flogged to death with his own words. Courtesy of FromtheRoots.org, we have Jim Inhofe (R-OK) then: Our intelligence system has said that we know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction — I believe including nuclear. And now:
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