I wonder if it occurs to right-wingers that most of the early white settlers to these fair shores were fleeing religious persecution and religious wars. William Penn, for example, was expelled from Oxford, disowned by his father, imprisoned in the…
Category: Wankers
Look at This Fool
Check out this genius: [Richard] Malley was arrested in August 2013, when he and two other members of a “Minuteman militia group” were scouting for smugglers in the desert area near Gila Bend. Malley mistook an undercover Sheriff’s deputy for…
Responding to William Rivers Pitt
So I guess I’m a little late to the party, since the 2015 SOTU is SOOOO last week, but I feel like I need to respond to William Rivers Pitt, who wrote: It was a fine show on Tuesday night,…
The Balls on These Guys…
The right’s outrage du jour is that President Obama is visiting India instead of traveling to Poland for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will be representing the administration at the ceremony, which is…
This is Not Parody
This is real, not for The Onion: Just before she heads to Iowa for the first major conservative showcase of the 2016 election cycle, Sarah Palin said “of course” she’s interested in the 2016 presidential election. “Yeah, I mean, of…
Why the Hate for James Taylor?
I once spent a couple of interesting nights with James Taylor’s daughter (with Carly Simon) who was friends with an old girlfriend of mine. That’s my only connection to their family, although I did get some scoops on the whole…
Bob Menendez Can’t Find the Hymnal
The president called out Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey in front of the entire Democratic Caucus yesterday, and Menendez didn’t like it. Their face-off occurred behind closed doors at the Hilton in Baltimore, where the two-day Senate Democratic Issues…
Dr. Ben Carson is a Scoundrel
I have a lot of negative things to say about Dr. Ben Carson but my understanding is that he was a tremendously talented pediatric neurosurgeon. And when you are separating conjoined twins or performing an hemispherectomy, it seems to me…
That’s a Toesucker
Dick Morris started an anti-Hillary political action committee and literally no one donated one red cent. Seriously.
If the NYPD Wants to Play That Game
Another way of making Zandar’s point is to ask whether or not anyone would notice if the New York Police Department suddenly reduced its overall arrests by 66% and its issuance of traffic citations by 94%? And, if not, would…