Winners Free speech is only defensible when it is not libel, defamation or injurious to another human being. Goldwater’s attack was a baseless assault on other humans already called indefensible…
Suddenly I have reason to like the pop queen. Or at least her Israeli fans. In a newly launched Facebook page, Israeli fans of U.S. pop megastar Madonna are pleading…
Aw the south, Florida in particular. Mmm, smell the get away with murder, or at least beating one’s wife, aroma about the place. Judge John Hurley handed down this ruling…
Ever wonder what kind of person leaves all those disgusting, ill-informed comments on blogs and news sites, mostly it seems at least in North America, in support of the Conservatives…
Former Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra sees nothing wrong with his video depicting an Asian-American woman talking broken English in the manner of say how 30’s movies depicted Chinese people. You…
Psst. Know anybody who knows anything about PR, handling the public and not creating shit storms? Komen is looking for a new “Director of Public Policy”, likely to replace the…
Erickson’s infamous “Trike Force” in action. Erick Erickson’s peculiar form of crazy is legendary. If they had a Museum of Fucked Up Bloggers, he’d be the All Star MVP of…
“Hey Turd Blossom, catch that Dirty Harry flick. Man, that Eastwood is a mofo.” “Uh-huh”. Karl “Dirty Tricks” Rove is upset that director/actor Clint Eastwood appeared in a Super Bowl…
You have to be a really far-gone wingnut to fall for The Onion jokery. But if the subject is abortion, as the recent Komen-Planned Parenthood kerfuffle has shown us, there…
During a Super Bowl party I attended yesterday, there was much grumbling about the Canadian station not airing exclusive new ads debuting during the big game on US networks. We…
“Hi folks, this used to be Israel. Or, was it Iran? I forgot. Oh well. Where’s my paycheque?” Or, more like an Israeli attack on Iran. The money quote: War…
When Blade Runner was released in 1982, I became a little obsessed. I saw it dozens of times and effused to anyone within earshot what a forward-looking film it was.…
All I can say is that Arizona must have a lot of white people. A lot of old, rich white people. How else could the governor get up in the…
“Look ma, I just ate Texas.” I kid you not. A human, also a CNN contributor and red state blogger, wrote that. I’m not kidding you!! Honest. This is not…
Ross Douthat is the New York Times angry young evangelical blogger, brought in to balance the Washington Post’s progressive blogging voices, Greg Sargent and Ezra Klein. Running out of cogent…
Who’s goose stepping now, WSJ and National Review? One of the most amusing repercussions of the Komen implosion and the causal reaction of hundreds of thousands of individual voices, including…
Polarizing 60’s radical mayor Tom Campbell has died. Nobody has paid much attention. That’s because the Rob Ford inspiration was a raging right winger and hater of all things non-conservative.…
Sitting back after the dust has settled on Susan G. Komen’s awkward about-face (which is actually no about-face at all but a bit of temporary cover), one thing has become…
Sometimes I feel bad calling conservatives names and pointing out their rank hypocrisy, greed and utter self-absorption. Then I see something like this. Here’ GOP presidential wannabe Rick Santorum lecturing…
Wow. This kind of switch rarely happens. Note that such about faces are rarely for altruistic purposes. They usually reveal an untenable position that can no longer be held (aka…
