One sympathizes, but Hollande should really have resisted the temptation to kick Le Pen and co. out of what was among other things a free speech rally.

Sometimes it seems like only the fascists have any kind of long game.

Well, middle long.

Justice Kennedy's brain = Warner Brothers' Wackyland. Thoughtless racism included.

The Hastings affair has my neck hair's attention.

Delillo's Underworld looks at the Cold War and its gradual unraveling as a sort of mass trauma followed by a mass convalescence. Seems like the terrorism/counterterrorism era proceeded similarly, but at four or five times the speed - though of course we're susceptible to a relapse, just as there were a couple of those during the Cold War (and I ( Read more... )

Goldman Sachs has HOW many vice presidents?

I was thinking the other day that the Breitbart story would end in murder-suicide. But I was wrong. Because I'm a liberal.

I'll try to number movies till that falls apart ( Read more... )

Calming mantras:

Half a percent less white every year.
Half a percent less religious each year.
Two percent less anti-pot every year.
More than two percent less anti-gay by the year.

Lately anyway. Don't question it.

Canada's knockoff of our Thanksgiving happens six weeks earlier so they have no buffer against creeping Christmasism - the red and green stuff starts popping up right after Halloween. Kind of makes me think that we could chill out the 18+ month American presidential election season if we supplanted it with some other event, like by moving ( Read more... )

So does this finally mean it's Romney or are they not yet out of morons?