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Because This Is A Thing That’s Okay

Not that I’m saying that the Tea Party may contain an incredibly disturbing psychosexual undercurrent focused on fetishizing powerful women that are still ideologically beholden to them, but fuck it, I am. Add this to list of bizarre and unusual campaign trail antics: at last week’s Tea Party Express rally…

The resentment orchestra

Susan Jacoby has a fun response to the idiot parade claiming that there’s such thing as a “feminism” that opposes basically all the things that feminists stand for. (Though I am considering, if this doesn’t die down soon, starting an evangelical church dedicated to believing that there is no god…

Announcing The New Tea Party Mascot: Slow Moe, The Tired Randian Squirrel

The New York Times did a profile of one of the Tea Party movement’s leaderless leaders, Keli Carender (warning: link to interminable blog). As we all know, the Tea Party has no leaders, which means that everyone in the Tea Party is simultaneously totally fucking awesome and persona non grata.…

No True Teabagger

Melissa Clouthier writes what’s become the standard Tea Party trope: the Tea Party is not responsible for anyone associated with the Tea Party, because no Tea Partier ever has to be associated with things they don’t like. In fact, it’s the central tenet of the Tea Party movement: no Teabagger…

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