Thursday, December 5, 2013

Last Call: Nelson Mandela, Dead at 95

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Finally put your burden down, Madiba .  The rest of us will carry it on together. Mr. Mandela’s quest for freedom took him from the court ...

Keep On Losing, Boys

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Meet Official GOP Black Spokesguy(tm) Orlando Watson, who keeps on proving exactly why I'll never vote for the current incarnation of th...
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The Existence of Privilege

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Jonathan Chait actually does a very good job of explaining the modern Republican mindset on race, President Obama, and American society: ...
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StupidiNews!

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Organizers say fast food workers in 100 US cities will walk off the job today to advocate raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Last Call For Don't Like It, So Sue Me

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How long before Orange Julius and company are forced by the Tea Party to take this tack against President Obama ? Republican lawmakers ba...

Detroit Rock-Headed City

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In a pretty awful decision, the federal judge in charge of Detroit's bankruptcy case has ruled that in spite of the state's constit...

Another Milepost On The Road To Oblivion

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This is the first sentence of Peggy Noonan's latest WSJ column/screechfest against President Obama , entitled "Low-Information Lead...

StupidiNews!

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Over protests from prosecutors and some of the relatives of victims, selected 911 calls made in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre a year ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Last Call For The Red Stick

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The latest example of the post-Katrina permanent minority underclass in Bobby Jindal's Louisiana?   The rich, white area of Baton Rouge ...

All The Ladies Say What?

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Ryan Cooper over at Washington Monthly makes a number of points on how the GOP could very well come to regret the Hobby Lobby SCOTUS case a...

Meanwhile, In Syria...

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And while the chemical weapons are being dealt with, the much larger problem of the Syrian civil war and millions of refugees remains, the U...

StupidiNews!

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National Transportation Safety Board officials say the Bronx commuter train in Sunday's deadly derailment was going 82 miles an hour t...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Last Call For Papal Bull

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Ross Douthat, conservative columnist for the NY Times and self-styled modern right-wing Catholic, has decided that Pope Francis's recent...
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General Austerity And Major Cutbacks Meet Private Sector

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The NY Times editorial board has tossed a few at the austerity dartboard and has decided that the real problem with Pentagon waste is all th...
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Going Sane In The Ukraine

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Things are getting rather interesting in Russia's neighbor to the west, as tens of thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets of Kiev t...