Per aspera

Jesus Christ.
(via Unqualified Offerings)
UPDATE:  Robert Farley at LGM has a slightly longer and more thoughtful response than I:
Long story short, it’s quite likely that an invasion would cause a lot more people to die than are likely to die sans intervention.
The idea of a threat of an invasion in order to force SLORC compliance with international […]

I’ve heard a disturbing number of people, all of whom I know to be otherwise sane, tell me that they think John McCain would make a good President, or even tell me that they might vote for him. This is nuts. He would be an awful President. Of course, you wouldn’t know […]

The only thing more annoying than Joe Lieberman himself is his conceit, which many people indulge out of habit, that he is some kind of “centrist.”  Perhaps if we think of the political spectrum as a series of rings surrounding a cavernous abyss (or perhaps a pit like the Sarlaac), then Lieberman and McCain can fairly […]

Today is the anniversary of The Moominite Terror Attack, when Boston authorities shut down half the city in order to “detonate” a few dangerous looking Lite-Brites, and apparently, some civic-minded locals decided to commemorate our Day that Will Live in Mockery.

Awesome post about Obama, Clinton, and South Carolina at Jack and Jill Politics.
The Media’s Three-Fifth’s Compromise
What upset me was the dismissiveness towards the South Carolina Primary.
A prevailing attitude comprised of, if Barack Obama wins South Carolina:
1. He only won because he’s Black
2. It doesn’t REALLY count as a win because of the sizeable […]

All my Michigan Democratic peeps (do I have any Michigan Democratic peeps?), you know what to do.
(I believe this was all Kos’ idea)
(via Making Light)

Sam Adams is on the terrorist watch list?

Sam motherfucking Adams?
This isn’t my America.

When it comes to health care, conservatives use policy the way pick-up artists use astrology: It’s something to talk about while they try to screw you.

-Ezra Klein

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In which Jay Smooth at Ill Doctrine reveals that professional wresting is a more reliable source of news than CNN. Not a joke, and illustrative of a larger issue in civil society: you can’t trust the news. Not only will they […]

Kevin Drum has announced the winners of the Golden Wingnut award, for the all-time wingnuttiest blogpost. N.B. that first place went to a guy who used to call himself “Hindrocket.” Since most of you don’t spend nearly as much time on the Internet as I do, you might be slightly perplexed by the […]

Also via Avedon, Jay Rockefeller, Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, lies to try to get the Get Out of Jail Free Act passed for the telecom companies who helped the Bush administration illegally spy on Americans without warrants, from its beginning (it turns out that the Bush administration - and this is true, I am not […]

Jay Smooth, of Ill Doctrine and hiphopmusic.com, has a theory about Bill:

From Media Matters, via Atrios, whose excerpt I’m just going to copy:
O”REILLY: Now, how do we get to this point? Black people in this country understand that they’ve had a very, very tough go of it, and some of them can get past that, and some of them cannot. I don’t think there’s a black […]

It’s the only explanation I can think of.
That, or she’s a terrible, terrible, professional writer.

From a WSJ/NBC poll:
More Americans express doubts about a candidate who served in Bush’s cabinet (59%) than one who is gay or lesbian (53%).
(via Shakes)