Let’s just throw out there that I am a straight, able-bodied white dude from a comfortable background who missed the time when Jewish people needed their own clubs to eat or play golf by a solid generation and a half. So I apologize in advance for pointing this out like I just discovered Brooklyn or …
Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh and a Kel-Tec 9mm
The above graphic is an actual thing someone created for Rep. Steve Crisafulli, who will be Speaker of the House in the Florida legislature next year. The future speaker commemorated the upcoming birthday of Baby Jeebus by bragging on Twitter that the state’s wingnut-supermajority legislature retained the law infamous for allowing a deranged serial domestic …
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Hindsight is a Bitch
At least one person in Florida has the good common sense to demand that George Zimmerman wallow though his shitty existence without having a bunch of guns to make his dick feel bigger: At a bond hearing on Tuesday, prosecutors in Seminole County alleged that former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman had choked his girlfriend …
Second-Degree Murder charge
Detroit: After a two-week investigation, the prosecutor here charged a white suburban homeowner on Friday with second-degree murder in the killing of an unarmed young black woman. The prosecutor rejected the man’s assertion that he had been acting in self-defense when he opened his front door and fired a shotgun at the woman through a …
The Last Word on Cohen
TNC takes on the apologists at the WaPo: I read the entire column. I saw the preceding grafs where Cohen offers a rough history of the Dixiecrats and segregationists wing of America. And then I read this: Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled—about …
Sick Bastards
Via Florida Today: Zimmerman’s lawyer to speak at Viera event O’Mara’s speech, raffle of pistol and Bible expected to draw big crowd George Zimmerman’s defense attorney will be the featured speaker at a Gun Rights Preservation Forum next month in Viera. The Nov. 4 event, organized by the Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida, …
Open Thread: Only in America
Per Dave Weigel, tomorrow’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on stand-your-ground laws (which would have given Rep. Louie Gohmert a chance to question Trayvon Martin’s mother) have been postponed due to the Navy Yard shooting.