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The true incivility
Yesterday for RH Reality Check, I wrote a piece about how civility is really impossible in political discourse for those who political opinions are uncivil. I'm sick of how the focus on "incivility" has been around the least toxic aspects of our political discourse, namely joke-telling and an unwillingness to…
Barders and birthers
Update: Correction. The blogger was Dara Lind, filling in for Adam while he was out. Thanks to Adam Serwer for making my day by drawing the parallels between the Birthers and people who believe the conspiracy theory that there are "questions" about Shakespeare being the man who wrote Shakespeare's plays.…
David Brooks, Moment of Truth
Based on Monday’s column, a projection of “moderate” conservative Brook’s column a few years hence. It was a season of constitutional perestroika. Last fall, the Simpson-Bowles governmental commission released a bold report on how to avoid the continued suffrage of non-land-owning Americans. For a few weeks, the think tanks and…
Ritalin would bring an end to blogging
Many of the ideas I get from blogging are due strictly to what is probably a low-grade, undiagnosed form of ADD. I’m constantly jumping back and forth between Google Reader, Twitter, and whatever long form articles I’ve pulled up to read. Seriously, if I want to just buckle down and…
Why on earth is the President talking to *women*?
Once again, I’m forced to question if conservatives are capable of remembering that they gave women the vote nearly a century ago. The new faux scandal on the right is that President Obama is going on “The View”, and the reason that this is supposedly a disgrace is pretty blatantly…
Dan Choi and James Pietrangelo subpeona the President: ‘we were following your orders’
Brass ones, I tell you. This is going to be interesting. The Politico has the PDF of the subpoena. Ben Smith: The gay soldiers arrested outside the White House protesting “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will annouce today that they’re demanding that President Obama testify in their trial on minor civil…
I Am Not Afraid To Look Racism In The Face And Dodge The Issue Entirely By Commenting On Its Pores
If there’s one Republican in this country I have sympathy for, it’s South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. Two men are claiming to have had affairs with her, both of whom are about as credible as a four year old who has no idea how all the cookies disappeared and…
President Obama: A Transgender Veteran Is Not An ”Impersonator,” ”It,” Or ”Shim”
NOTE FROM PAM: Autumn Sandeen, a contributor at the Blend, was one of those arrested last week during a civil disobedience at the White House where they handcuffed themselves to the fence to protest the President’s lack of initiative to urge Congress to repeal DADT this year. While in the…
Fundies don’t really believe this stuff
Here’s the question I had to ask myself when reading this news article: when people say they think President Obama is the Antichrist, are they fucking around with the pollsters? For instance, if Gallup called me and said, “Do you think Newt Gingrich is the Antichrist?”, I would not be…
CNN Poll: Majority Don’t Think President Deserves Second Term
Who’s surprised at this news? Probably all of the people who keep telling us that they’d be satisfied to wait through the end of a second term for pro-LGBT legislation (or just insert your long-ignored progressive cause here) to be passed and signed by President Obama. Do you think Barack…
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