Father Benedict Groeschel calls Jerry Sandusky a “poor guy” and adds this (via Atrios): “People have this picture in their minds of a person planning to – a psychopath. But that’s not the case. Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the …
Archives for August 2012
Always, Always, Always the Victim
Actually, the only coordination was when the RNC worked with the media to allow Ryan to speak before a nationally televised audience. As predicted, he then spent his time in the limelight lying his ass off, and this is what happened: An army of fact-checkers swarmed around Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech last night, and the …
This is why we still need the Voting Rights Act
Federal court rejects Texas voter ID law WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court has ruled against a Texas law that would require voters to present photo IDs to election officials before being allowed to cast ballots in November. A three-judge panel in Washington ruled Thursday that the law imposes “strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor” …
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Go local
More disgusting attempts to target groups of voters and deny them the right to vote: Nearly a third of people whose citizenship and right to vote were questioned by Colorado’s secretary of state are actually U.S. citizens, election officials said Wednesday, prompting Democrats to question the motives behind the effort to clean up voting rolls …
Let me step into your erotic zone
My favorite idiotic description of Ol Blue Eyes’ star turn last night: With a solid delivery of a well-crafted address, Ryan was able to touch conservative erogenous zones on President Barack Obama’s record while retaining an appearance of Midwestern reasonableness that centrist voters could find appealing. If I’d written this as a joke, it would …
Skylark
This song has been stuck in my head all week. I like Ella’s treatment, though Aretha has an interesting take on it, as does KD Lang. Have you anything to say to me? Say it in this open thread.
Faint Signs of Life
It’s similar to the way you’d treat a toddler who kept his pull-ups dry during the night, but James Fallows and Jay Rosen are both lauding the efforts of mainstream press in calling the Romney/Ryan campaign lies for what they are. I don’t want to praise with faint damns: some of those pieces are very …