I’m certainly not going to speak against Any Which Way You Can, which clearly provides the greatest chimp-Eastwood pairing we will ever see. And higher power of your choice knows that I would never say anything bad about a song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, not to mention one performed by either David Frizzell […]
Tag: wingnuttery
Looking at the posts readers had recently clicked on, I stumbled upon this. The Schiavo case is one of the more striking examples of all manner of wingnuts fomenting hysteria based on lies. And at the
I would have to agree that this effectively summarizes the Republican position. Restricting unnecessary medical expenses under Medicare — death panels! Providing health insurance to the working
After reading this, I can’t resist a quote from Brian Kellow’s excellent Pauline Kael bio. It’s particularly entertaining if chased with Simon’s witless-old-fart rambling about how there hasn’t been a good movie released since Chinatown: One evening that January she had shown up at the Brodway Screeing Room to see Paul Mazursky’s new comedy, Scenes […]
The 10th Circuit struck down the idiotic and flagrantly unconstitutional ban on “sharia” and “international” law passed by the fine citizens of Oklahoma last year. Good; I
Why won’t people leave kindly old Ron Paul alone? Elsewhere in “paleocon some people like kidding themselves about” news, Pat Buchanan has been suspended for expressing the same odio
Three New Hampshire Republicans have proposed an, um, interesting bill: New Hampshire Republicans are taking textual originalism to a whole new level: three lawmakers have proposed a bill that requires that all legislation find its origin not in the U.S. constitution, but an English document crafted in 1215. The bill reads: “All members of the […]
For some reason, every couple years a media outlet feels compelled to do a lazy puff piece on walking argument against nepotism Adam Bellow. The latest one is definitive because of the sheer densi
On trying to challenge Ron Paul in Texas. Obviously, Republican elites are starting to pay attention to these newsletters for opportunistic reasons. But is nonetheless true that he spent years publish
Minnesota’s gay and lesbian community responds to Amy Koch, the anti-marriage equality bigot who resigned her leadership position after engaging in a relationship with a staffer who was not her husband: “On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community’s successful efforts to threaten your […]
Obama is with us, comrades! However farcical things get in American political discourse, I do take a small measure of satisfaction in the fact that Sarah Palin is too lazy to run for president, and li
Jennifer Rubin is so hacktacular that Pareene’s extensive catalog doesn’t even have space for a particularly hilarious bit: she’s so in the tank for Mittens that she attacked Newt Gi