[I know it’s been covered, but bear with me. I posted this morning and then got annoyed at all the keening about his death. Hence the update that’s not really an update to this crowd. -ABLxx] I think Matt Osborne sums it up perfectly: I am not celebrating the death of Andrew Breitbart. I do …
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This is how realignment happens
Not with a bang but a whimper: In terms of electoral realignments, the election of Barack Obama may rather most closely resemble the election of Richard Nixon. That’s not a bad thing, either. Richard Nixon was the beginning of the conservative realignment. […] Perhaps Barack Obama will not realize the desires and natural policy outcomes …
Oink: Limbaugh Demands that Sandra Fluke Post Sex Tapes Online
Limbaugh is so disgusting that he’s not worthy of my contempt. As such, I write this post only to demonstrate how deliberately manipulative (and wantonly dickish) he is, having managed to convince right-wing assclowns like Patricia Heaton (who knew she was such an asshole?) that Fluke wanted birth control to have more sex, when in …
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Excellent Obit From Frum
I really don’t have anything to say about the passing of Breitbart other than I am really sad for his family. These poor kids just lost their dad. I don’t see any purpose in getting my jollies trashing the guy as he is dead and can no longer defend himself, and I really think that …
They weren’t invited to the debate
We’ve heard an awful lot from the really loud, really powerful public moralists so maybe we should hear from some quiet dissenters: At a Jesuit institution in Ohio, though, some members of the faculty and staff have joined the debate, signing a letter urging the university’s president to accept the Obama administration’s compromise on contraception …
My Fresh Hell
I heard this song in the grocery store several days ago, and it has been banging around my cavernous head ever since: I don’t particularly hate the song, but 48 hours of anything IS TOO MUCH. I’m hoping if I share this earworm, one of you will get it and it will leave me. You …
Root For Injuries
This is like a Browns/Cowboys Super Bowl, and I’m just rooting for pain: Billionaires Charles and David Koch filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Cato Institute in a fight for control of the influential libertarian think tank. The complaint centers on the the handling of the shares of William A Niskanen, a former chairman of …