No, really, State Representative Alan Dick (who apparently is a Dick in the worst sense) is just terribly worried about… wait for it… his peace of mind, for which he feels he must subject women to insane regulation. From The Mudflats: And if you’re not fully convinced yet that Alaska is the next front in [...]
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Alabama Sinks Deeper Into The Sea Of Stupid
February 2, 2012
Alabama Republican State Senator Shadrack McGill is doing his godawful best to make the State of Alabama the dumbest place in America. His clever two-pronged attack involves using the Bible to justify keeping the pay of teachers low, while using bogus logic absent fact to justify raising his own pay. The world stares in silent, [...]
Racial Division: Republicans In The South, Via England
January 19, 2012
There’s a good piece in The Guardian about racial prejudice being used by Republicans to foster racial division in South Carolina. Naturally we have to read a well written and researched article like this in an English newspaper because the American press won’t touch it. Just like the fact that more whites get food stamps [...]
Arizona Bans Shakespeare From Schools; Join Next Week’s Book Burning In Phoenix
January 13, 2012
And that’s not the worst of it. From Salon: Another notable text removed from Tucson’s classrooms is Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest.” In a meeting this week, administrators informed Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any units where “race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes,” including the teaching of Shakespeare’s classic in Mexican-American literature courses. [...]
New Hampshire: Religious Idiots In The Legislature–Republicans, Of Course
January 12, 2012
Here’s another argument for requiring educational, intellectual, and emotional testing of people who want to serve in public office. A Republican (of course, again) is sponsoring a bill to force the teaching of creationism in school classrooms, which is not unusual from the intellectual Neandertals on the right, but this one has an ugly twist [...]
Parsing The Romney Coronation Speech In New Hampshire
January 11, 2012
A while back I read a piece somewhere explaining why political candidates do try to keep their campaign promises. Unfortunately I didn’t note the address and can’t cite it. But it made a respectable case against the common wisdom that such promises are lies from the outset. So assuming there is some truth to what [...]
Are You All Comfy About Politics? Get Over It!
January 6, 2012
Over at the Washington Monthly there’s a series of articles under the main heading ‘What If Obama Loses…’ You need to read these. You really need to read them. Really. The Tea Freak Rethugs really really don’t want you to read them. They don’t want you to know what they have in store for the [...]
How to remember the Republican candidates’ stands on the issues
December 29, 2011
Rick Perry: Take away the hair and there’s nothing there. Ron Paul: No government, that’s all. Blacks and gays against the wall. Mitt Romney: There he is! No, he’s there! Oh oh, he stole Rick Perry’s hair! Michele Bachman: She’s all Biblical, really just like Shariacal. Jon Somebody: If you can’t remember his name, [...]
Republican Presidential Candidates Defined
December 5, 2011
For quite a while I have cast about in my mind for a simple, inclusive way to define the current crop of Republican candidates for the party’s Presidential nomination. And this morning, while for some dysfunctional reason thinking about Bill O’Reilly, I stumbled upon the best definition up with which my aging, fevered brain has [...]
