The Voracity of Hope

[ludickid]

So, here we are.

After years of ambiguity over the direction Barack Obama was taking as president, after months of nausea at the repulsive tactics his Republican opponents and the inexplicable support for Mitt Romney (the most worthless presidential candidate of my lifetime), after weeks of stress headaches whenever there was chatter about poll

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[uvula_fr_b4]

>>The forces of old and evil received what might have been their strongest rebuke when it came to the fate of ugly, mean men who have appointed themselves the definers and defenders of rape: Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Roger Rivard, Joe Walsh, Tom Smith, John Koster, and Paul Ryan himself

Hanna Rosin in Slate's "Double XX" blog yesterday had a worrisome coda to the Todd Akin loss:

"Akin seems to have either tied or won the white-woman vote, according to CNN. That is not a misprint, and we can’t really explain how or why that happened. Chalk it up to the meth labs."

Man. I guess that's what they mean by the belt buckle of the Bible Belt....

[lurkerwithout]

Thoughts on Puerto Rico?