Various Republican flying monkeys are personally attacking a staffer who posed for a picture, because his picture was used in a promotion for the Heritage Republican health care plan that Republicans love. With, it probably goes without saying, plenty of gay-baiting, as well as uses...
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Has become more enchanting: New Mexico became the latest state to legalize gay marriage Thursday as its highest court declared it is unconstitutional to deny marriage licenses to gay and.
Many commenters had figured out that Mike Allen was going to be #1 on the hack list, but I have to say this exceeded high expectations comfortably.
I, personally, find the domestic arrangement of Sister Wives creepy at best. But prosecuting someone with one marriage license under a statute that forbids "cohabitation" seems like a straightforward violation of the 1st and 14th Amendments to me: Defending the statute, the state of Utah...
Lift a glass to a man who beat the odds. Added to satisfy Lemieux (and also because it's pretty great): Also:
Finally, Saint Maverick of Arizona gets some fawning coverage from the media. Whew. Now, maybe they can get to finally promoting that new Anchorman sequel.
Worth noting that today is the 69th anniversary of the notorious Korematsu v. United States decision, when the Supreme Court ruled for the acceptability of Japanese concentration camps. Early in World War II, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, granting...
Pareene really delivers the goods here: It seems a pleasant life to be a Columnist. He writes a few hundred words once, or at most twice a week. He’s paid.
Cities like Seattle and San Francisco are expensive to live in for a host of well understood reasons (desirable location, many high-paying jobs, geographical limits on growth). Another really important.
The disastrous experiment between San Jose State University and Udacity has basically ended after it turns out students fail in enormous numbers using MOOCs. “This is very much the end of the San Jose State-Udacity partnership for this pilot, and it’s really an attempt --...
On my twitter feed, someone alerted me to professional Green Laternite vastleft defending the idea that the ACA was, in fact, the same as the Heritage plan, because all political.
Speaking of the New Gilded Age, Michael Bloomberg sure is the perfect plutocrat/political leader for it: It was only a matter of time — assuming Michael Bloomberg couldn't run out.