As we wait for the results from the last round of Wisconsin recall elections, something needs to be said about the fundamentally nutty state of our Narrative. Example the first: How did so many “Christians” end up marching under the sign of the Serpent? And how come nobody’s noticed?

Cry Havoc and Let Slip: My Riotous Life by Clancy Sigal “Whatever ends your from put your ballys on link up and cause havic.” – Blackberry message from a London rioter I’m a veteran rioter. My first, at 15, was when – for racial solidarity and sheer adrenalin rush – I jumped aboard a motorized cavalcade of Jewish tough guys roaring off my Chicago turf into a nearby Italian-American neighborhood...

Nothing sinister here. Oh, wait. Today is International Lefthanders Day, which I urge you happiness with. Vive la Gauche! It bespeaks the fundamental cussedness of lefties (and leftists and southpaws) that it was immediately spelt two different ways: ‘Lefthanders’ and ‘Left-Handers.’ This is innate in the leftie soul, since all of life is, to a lefthander (of which, you might have deduced,...

Thirty-seven, thirty-seven, thirty-seven. Today, 37 years ago, the 37th President, Richard Milhous Nixon, resigned in his 37th address from the Oval Office. I happened to catch, by accident, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All The President’s Men, in the wee hours this morning. I had not known of the anniversary, and, as per usual, all the “premium” channels were filled with crap, dreck...

There are times I want to grab some tea party folk by the neck and try and shake some sense in them. Many of them are, indeed, unreasonable and illogical. Advocating not raising the debt ceiling, forcing the government to cut about 40% of the budget in one year, may not be terrorism but they might as well support detonating an atom bomb in New York City considering the similar effect it would have on the economy....

Going Forward: More Fiscal Stimulus or Debt Reduction? by Steve Suranovic As we come out of the debt ceiling debate in the US Congress and face the prospect of a world economy that seems destined to remain in the doldrums for some time to come, the debate over what to do next is heating up. Should we ignore the budget deficit and debt issues and go all in for anther massive government spending program to kick...

Hiroshima Day seems as good a day as any to drop a bomb. [Note: written on August 6.] James and Eric O’Keefe, from the Right Online 2011 Dinner in Minneapolis (the competing “convention” to the Netroots Nation — formerly Daily Kos — Convention that Andrew Breitbart crashed in Mid-June, at the height of his ‘Weiner Attack.’ (via Gateway Pundit, who states “no...

The New Era of Hostage Politics by Michael Winship When I arrived in Washington this past Sunday, just as the debt ceiling crisis was approaching its climax, all the flags surrounding the capital’s Union Station stood at half-mast. I blackly joked with my brother and sister-in-law that maybe they’d been lowered to mark the death of the New Deal. (In fact, they honored the recent passing of former...

The Great Concessionair by Will Durst Sorry if you settled into your recliner ready to enjoy the blessed silence destined to descend on the political playing field in the aftermath of the Debt Ceiling Death Match. Lasted as long as the life cycle of an adult mayfly. That momentary, blissful peace was rudely broken by a cacophony of squeaks and grunts and shouts as each camp tried to out-blame the other for...

Sterling coverage by the Klanspersons at Faux Nation. Here’s the headline and picture: August 05, 2011 Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs And, just in case you didn’t get it, these n-words was p**n on the good ol’ Yew Ess Ay. Check out the URL address:

To understand the attack on Wisconsin, we need to perform a little “thought experiment.” Take this test with me, OK? (You, too CNN.) Here, in fig. 1 is Frank Zappa: Now, who is this in fig. 2? (Take your time. Relax. Focus. Concentrate.)

I’m not going to warn you or say “I told you so.” I’m going to tell you the Cassandra was a seer in Troy who was cursed to see the truth but that no one would believe her. 29 OCTOBER 2010 · 5:49 AM Enter Title Here (conclusion) Like I told you at the beginning, the Koch machine is going for a hostile takeover of the Republican party, and by their mantra ye shall know them: “limited...

UPDATED BELOW We begin at the periphery of the chain-reaction: Dave Blount / Moonbattery: NASA Data Confirm Global Warming Is a Hoax The atoms keep smashing — as with all chain-reactions, eventually damping down to zero, dependent on confinement and density as to the when but not the what. But when we trace the reaction back to its source, we find that the headline bears very little resemblance to...

With apologies to Abraham Lincoln, that is the harsh reality facing the Republican Party as it looks into an abyss called 2012. Having learned none of the lessons from its loses in 2006 and 2008 elections and having misread the victories of 2010 as a mandate, the GOP is not only no closer to recapturing the Senate and White House than it was a year ago, it is considerably further way. That is no mean feat,...

WARNING: VIDEO AT THE END OF THIS PIECE MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME VIEWERS. Something about my Nick Gillespie post (appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time on HBO this weekend) struck a nerve among “libertarians” on YouTube. What’s the big deal? Aren’t the Kochs our benefactors? This is nonsense! Harrumph. Harangue. Harass. But there IS something fundamental in not revealing who Nick...

James Fallows sounds upset that bloggers jumped the gun in speculating that al-Qaeda or Islamic terrorists were responsible for the attack in Oslo yesterday: No, this is a sobering reminder for those who think it’s too tedious to reserve judgment about horrifying events rather than instantly turning them into talking points for pre-conceived views. On a per capita basis, Norway lost twice as many people...

Today, the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War actually begins — not that you’d know it from the coverage. It was hotter than hell today at Manassas National Battlefield Park, in Prince William County in Northern Virginia. According to the (Manassas) News & Messenger: Manassas, Virginia 99° Feels Like: 105°. The Civil War started in earnest one hundred fifty years ago, today, with...

Perhaps the finest moment in the life of our species. Forty-two years ago today, on a hot summer evening. A species from this planet …

If ever was there a watermark for just how low in the cesspool we’re mired, the latest iteration of “Atlas Shrugs, Part I” is surely it. Consider the bizarrely plastic “screengrab” that Faux Nooz™ used to illustrate a ‘borrowed’ Reuters story and a ‘borrowed’ blog story: This is Faux Nation’s plastic notion of an Audio-Animatronic® ‘screengrab’...

Let me warn you up front: I don’t pretend to have the answers here, and if the question is too disturbing, or you’d prefer to chase butterflies through greener pastures, well, I don’t blame you. But we DO have a problem and it DOES need a solution. Let me tell you a story about a little petty larceny — the larceny of memory, not of dollars. There was a man who served in the Civil War....

A tale for summer travelers and debt limit fulminators. Sometimes, things are not necessarily as they appear, and anger is often misdirected by misconception. Monument Valley Monument Valley National Park Once upon a time, my wife and I ventured in our Western travels to see Monument Valley, that place made legendary by a gazillion John Ford/John Wayne westerns as “THE ARCHETYPAL WEST,” so much...

While we’re debating what to cut and why, here’s a little bit of privatization that seems to have been overlooked in the ongoing gush of patriotism and the fact-checking of Founding Fathers and British warning riders and suchlike. Once upon a time, I went to Philadelphia, and I couldn’t sleep. I took a walk, and, blogging from the “guest” computer by the check-in desk in the wee hours of the...

What do you do with a busted Murdoch What do you do with a busted Murdoch What do you do with a busted Murdoch Earl-aye in the mor-nin? YouTube video here Astonishing as it is to believe, Rupert Murdoch’s organization finally managed to commit an act of sleaze so egregious that it even offended public morality. Ironic, that. You already know the tale: after a long, burgeoning scandal in England, the...

The only difference is that nobody’s shooting: the secessionism is the same. Just ask the citizens of Minnesota. The free “Right Wing Doonesbury” doesn’t even bother with humor on July 1. “When the just say ‘no’”??!? Paranoid marxo-nazi fantasies are “just”??? But forget the idiocy of an unfunny comic strip predicated on “attractive young adults”...

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend. You know what THAT means.