John Plotz (He of the unfortunate last name...) sums up the judgement of Slate's political gabfest team in re: Hillary Clinton's recently released presidential campaign tocsin memoir.While the verdict of the panel (Plotz plus the estimable Emily Bazelon and beautifully-mothered John Dickerson) is of interest (they ultimately conclude that the book is intended to freeze the competition while Hillary mulls things over), the best moment yet to proceed from this literary event is (IMHO) the intrusion into R
A simple keychain flashlight? Maybe a maglight? A second bic ?(one to roast the glass pipe, one to see by...). But ya gotta burn down the whole fuckin' tree? Jeez!
""How do you prevent anyone from coming into a store, a Home Depot or anywhere else, and shooting anyone they want?"....Is this a question that answers itself, or what?
I'm sorry, this is just beyond absurd. As a former 16 year old high schooler, I am able, even at some distance, to discern the difference between victimization and the best thing that ever happened to a guy...
With apologies for in any way reprising those tasteless jokes which reference the alleged paucity of stray dogs in areas abutting budget priced chinese restaurants, I offer for the canny investor a convenient metric by which to know in advance that global warming's grip on the throat of humanity has inexorably tightened beyond repair. A leading indicator, if you will, of the food price apocalypse prophesied in the latest government climate change report.
First the driving skills go, then the dementia spreads....And the Lord God said, "Lo, I will smite that smarmy motherfucker right between the eyes, and so it was..."
Paul Fishman, US Attorney for New Jersey and therefor man tasked with sorting out the sundry Christie-gate's that have entertained us since the Fort Lee lane closure kerfuffle, was seen shopping at Morty's Big and Tall, in the company of David Wildstein, former caporegime for the man whose mob nickname is "Big Chicken" (h/t Charlie Pierce)
Amidst the constant despair over the stupidity and gullibility of the American voter, is it possible that between the constant lies about Obamacare and the bloviating and obvious idiocy of the chickenhawks re: Ukraine, and, now, the news that Hobby Lobby finds it convenable to its religious promptings to own stock in real (as opposed to fake) abortion drug makers, is it possible that the Repugnants will finally sink under the weight of their own bullshit?
Faced with the policy conundrum that is posed by the choice of directing public funds towards free childcare or prison for mom and institutionalization for kids, Arizona makes the predictable and catastrophic choice.
Let's call this the Peyoteros revenge, or "unintended consequences bite", shall we.
Now, I am, of course, appalled (as would any right thinking person be) that the societal benefits of co-payment free birth control and insurance coverage for medical advice about the same) should be undercut by a law specifically intended to vindicate the influence of religion in the sphere of secular behaviour.
Since the vicious nature of President Putin recently served as the major premise of a deconstruction of Edward Snowden's claims to virtue, I offer for discussion, (especially from NCD and RMRD), an alternative view of the wily KGB Colonel...
We on the left who despise Rahm Emmanuel for his corporatist roots, his dismissive attitude towards the grass roots and his cramped and limited vision of political struggle, used to inveigh, inter alia, against his reported advice that health care reform should have been left until the shambles of the Great Recession had been remediated.
From our perch 5 years out, does he not seem prescient?
