Given the California electorate, whoever replaces Barbara Boxer should be someone around the Elizabeth Warren/Sherrod Brown wing of the Democratic Party. Of course. many of her likely replacements would likely be be far worse than Boxer. At the very least, can you people not elect...
Month: January 2015
It is 23°F and SEK is rolling home from the store with a car full of cat litter and sushi when he spots his HAT-HATING NEMESIS wearing a hat while taking out.
Linda Greenhouse states what should be obvious about Sam Alito: Conservatives are confident that unlike Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who committed the unpardonable sin of saving the Affordable.
I suppose if one is going to raise a breed of cattle created by the Nazis, one should expect it to be a killer breed.
Some stuff for your reading pleasure: Adam Elkus on what it means to say a terrorist attack was "sophisticated." The Revolution as a drinking party. I highly recommend this debate.
In addition to the wars on Social Security and math, let us not forget the War on Women: Never ones to waste a second in their unending quest to fuck.
Ah, the first day of a unified Republican Congress. For the first day, this means a war on Social Security benefits for the disabled and math. It's only a matter of time before we get the "Stealing Candy From A Baby Act of 2015," with...
Horrifying. ...some useful background here. ...Pierce.
Being in East Coast exile, nothing bothers me more than the mediocre and overpriced beers I am forced to drink. In Oregon, a $4 beer is normal, a $5 beer.
If there's one thing we can all agree on in this polarized political environment, it's Kirby Delauter. Hopefully we can all find more time to discuss Kirby Delauter. No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle. Even... and I want to make...
There is some sentiment that the atrocious William Giraldi piece discussed yesterday was "satire." Any maybe it was so intended, but this really doesn't make it less sexist or poorly.
I'll leave my annual rant about the idiocy of the BBWAA to a separate post, so I can congratulate Pedro Martinez's induction to Cooperstown. (I'm beginning to think I was.