Total inability to connect with reality. Which is also known to the APA, as psychosis.

I wish I were a) so willing to spend half my day making a point, or b) half as good at making one, as the Slacktivist.

The "commendable" (read: hateful, fearful, and probably insane) Rep. Bachmann of Minnesota (note to self: never trust anyone from Minnesota ever: some of them voted for her. Better safe than sorry.) seems to interpret the "public option" currently under debate on the Hill as being "let's take all the worst aspects of the current healthcare system ( Read more... )

Passing on Palin?! They could plate her microphone and chair in pure 24-carat platinum and fill her green room with Perrier Jouet in an endlessly-running bubble bath, and they'd still make out like bandits. Hundreds of thousands of deluded simpletonsdevoted listeners would be riveted to every syllable of rambling drivel that meandered its way out ( Read more... )

Fact 1: Sarah Palin is anti-authoritarian. This one is kind of tricky, because she and I may well have less and more complicated definitions of authoritarian, respectively, but I will try and rebut. Her focus on personal leadership, and personal loyalty to that leader by his followers, marks her thinking as authoritarian. (ref.: Read more... )

He attempts strenuously to prove so here.

I'll let him speak (in this case write) for himself.

Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, and Glenn Beck blame everything on illegal immigrants. The tide going out? Immigrants. Lampreys invading the great lakes? Immigrants (obviously.) Rain the day after you washed your car? You bet: immigrants.

So how is it news that a strain of flu which apparently originated in Mexico in the real world would prompt those ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we bought with $10 billion worth of abstinence-only "education."

Gives the term camel jockey an almost too-literal meaning.

For a good American, a true patriot, and a friend to sailors everywhere.