No. They’re going to vote it into law, and they’re going to vote it into law because of the deficits, not in spite of them.

So much of the political narrative last year was shaped by Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, Charlie Rose, Glenn Thrush. So much.

The Republicans are leading us ever closer to organized, mass racial violence in this country: not the ad hoc brutality that is the daily bread of so many people of color in America, but something more coherent, more reckless, more shamelessly terrifying, and more widespread.

One reason the Republicans are getting away with dismantling not only our democracy, but all of the regulations and protections it has enabled (from Social Security to public employee unions to fire safety regs) is that so few people are alive today who can remember the world as it was before.

“The dude” has been taking on Jeff Sessions and other members of this fascist administration in the US Senate: this is why they’re taking him down so gleefully. Few of his fellow-Democrats have stood up against these people like Franken has. He was even beginning to be discussed as a long-shot possibility for the veep…

I agree with this. I believe if we treat all violations as ‘felonies,’ rather than allowing for the possibility of ‘misdemeanors,’ we end up losing enormously—-we end up losing the argument, in fact.

Yes, of course, and a good and deeply depressing point. I didn’t mean to sound as though I was dismissing or trivializing your statement, which is right on target. I’m only noting that since we can do absolutely nothing about the grotesque Republican line of presidential succession—-it’s a real horror show, I totally…

Forget the presidency. We need to vote for Democrats in every other office, up and down ticket, from the lowliest local school board to our senators and members of Congress. This is how the Republican machine did it over a forty year period, funded by dark money and fueled by Charles Koch’s insane ideology: and boy,…

Look, anybody who didn’t know the day Moore hit the headlines that a whole lot of ugly stuff about Democrats—-some true, some stretching the point, some out and out corrosive Republican ratfucking bullshit lies from the right’s massive, dark-money funded Big Lie machine—-was going to spew up and fill one news cycle…

I’m all for holding Al Franken accountable. Although he denies his accuser’s account of what happened on the USO tour, he acknowledges that the photo is sickening. Let the investigation proceed. Let’s show that progressives mean what they say.

My mother had them—-had to lie flat on her back in a darkened, silent room until they passed, every movement and sound was excruciating, and even the slight elevation of a pillow would exacerbate the pain unbearably. Two of my friends had them as well: one of them would also break out in canker sores all over her…

One of the grotesque sideshows playing alongside the main circus is what it reveals about the right-wing hive mind. TMI. Y’all have some serious ethical and spiritual problems, and you don’t seem to understand how much you are revealing every time you open your yaps.

I must give this a listen, I come from a long line of very low brows.

Anthony Comstock wrote a book called Traps For The Young which is either insanely hilarious or hilariously insane, depending on your mood: it is full of obscure yet lubricious warnings about the evils lurking on all sides (birth control and gambling as well as sex toys and dirty books), just waiting to corrupt the…

I’ll admit it, I’ve told my family to make sure I’m actually completely dead before they do anything about the remains. In little girlhood, aged perhaps about nine, my best friend and I watched a horror movie about a man who was buried alive,and both of us had nightmares for weeks—our mothers were furious when they…

They’re doing all this shit to America because they’ve been bought and paid for by a band of grotesque old Bond villains (the fossil fuel heir and liver-spotted trust-fund brat Charles Koch, the loon tech billionaire Robert Mercer, et al) who fancy themselves to be Party Intellectuals and the Founding Fathers of a…

Thanks! I feel so reassured! (heh)

One thing that makes me really, really sad is that I won’t live to be as old as Methuselah, who—-the Bible tells me—-lived to be 969: because that’s about how long it’s going to take to fix the stinking, corrosive, rotten, grotesque, corrupt, polarized, hateful, miserable hash the fucking Republicans have made of our…

I’m assuming this vile girl—-nicknamed, I believe, “Breezy”—-loses her scholarship? at the very least? right away?