En Tequila Es Verdad

Even when I was a kid, I knew I was lucky. I had a middle-class family in a prosperous country. Sally Fields used to come on the teevee soli...

It may seem bizarre that in the land infamous for a dry sense of humor, satire is banned. But politicians in both Great Britain and Ireland,...

My darlings, please take one minute and go sign Bernie Sanders's letter to President Obama : So, today, I am asking the American people...

The party of "life" strikes again: House File 1467, which ought to be called "Shoot First," will be heard in the Hous...

This is how easy it is to steal an election: Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections. ( h/t via Suzanne )

I'd meant to get the next Oregon Geology post up, but instead have spent the past several days watching in bemusement, sometimes in horr...

Right, then, ladies.  The Cons in Congress, together with a handful of despicable Dems, have decided we must have rape babies .  Observe : ...

Saw this at Digby's after I'd written the previous post : All over TV today, I'm hearing the gasbags fret about the fact that ...

So David Dayen wrote this article right after the Giffords shooting, taking the WaPo out to the woodshed and administering some tough love f...

There has long been a horrible concern in the back of my mind: that this country, founded on violence, couldn’t get away from violence.  How...

When Jerry Coyne said , While it does seem that this kind of violence is whipped up more by conservatives than liberals (viz. abortion-doc...

In my home state of Arizona, a man loaded a gun, picked up a knife, and went to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's first Congress on Your Corner ...

Finally ! I am petty much dying of shock, because somehow, six Senate Republicans managed to do something right for a change.  Drugs?  Bl...

I've been trying for several days now to figure out how to capture my outrage in words, but it's impossible to do it.  Let's jus...

Oh, the humanity!  Poor Andy Harris.  He's discovering two important things: that guvmint-run health care is a desirable thing, and that...

Lately, our own George has been on a political roll.  It's about enough to make me put on a cheerleading outfit and jump up and down, be...

In this column , pointed out by my dear Paul .  So spend the time you would've spent reading a post by me and go read Glenn's instea...

Not to be missed .  Especially if, like me, you love watching David Broder get the crap kicked out of him.  Wot an asshat. For those who...

Because if it was a massacre, Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell would've ended up added to our list of national embarrassments. ...

I have to go to bed early so that I'm nice and fresh for fending off used car salesmen in the morning.  I haven't yet decided how I...