The barista that made my coffee this morning forgot to put sweetener in it and didn’t put in enough cream. Consequently, like my morning coffee, I am now bitter.
On another note, it’s a pain to add the names and sites of each source to each link, so unless the author is notable I’ll be sticking with just links or an additional site credit.
- Ed from Gin and Tacos talks about the impending Affirmative Action case before the SCOTUS.
- Allen West believes there are 80 Democrats in Congress that are Communist Party members. Allen West can go fuck himself, right up his Joe McCarthy-lovin’ ass. Charles P. Pierce chimes in.
- Newt Gingrich’s campaign is broke. How broke? He can’t write a $500 check to get on the ballot in Utah. Note: this is not to be confused with ethically broke, which Newt has been since 1997.
- One of Sherriff Joe’s prosectuor proteges has been disbarred in Arizona. I can’t wait for the Feds to throw Sherriff Joe’s racist ass in jail.
- “Can Romney pivot? How?” the Washington Post asks. “He can’t, because his base will literally eat him alive.” I reply.
- NYMag’s Dan Amira covers James O’Keefe’s latest stunt, in which he commits voter fraud on camera, and why this exercise is utterly pointless. If there’s anyone that belongs in Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison, it’s James O’Keefe.
- Governor Sandwiches is caught in a big old lie. Oh, I’m sorry, “exaggeration”. Charles P. Pierce weighs in.
- Doghouse Riley talks about John Derbyshire and calling a racist spade a racist spade.
- Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi expresses his disappointment with the recently passed JOBS Act.
- Rick Santorum drops out, thus making Mitt Romney the Presumptive Nominee until Grifter Gingrich and Crazy Uncle Liberty hit the bricks too, at which point he becomes the actual nominee. Charles P. Pierce opines.
- Charles P. Pierce likes the fiery partisan version of Obama; I do too.
- Charles P. Pierce covers the ongoing George Zimmerman drama.
- NYMag’s Jonathan Chait reports on the bogus PPACA-Deficit study.
- MotherJones’ Kevin Drum talks about Rick Warren’s comments that helping the poor isn’t Christian.
- The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf notes that the Right only sees a racial obsession on the Left, but not in themselves.
- Lessons from Rick Santorum’s campaign from The Atlantic’s Conor Friedsersdorf and Molly Ball.
- Hold on to your butts, Congress is about to get more divided.
- Congressional Birthers are back. Gee, I can’t imagine why.
- James Fallows pushes back on false equivalence and the filibuster.
- A Kentucky Democrat pushes back on Mitch McConnell.
- George Zimmerman is apparently taking legal advice from Sean Hannity and not his attorneys. This won’t end well for him.
- Condoleezza Rice wonders “I don’t know when immigrants became the enemy.” Gee, I have absolutely no idea. Let’s ask your former boss and his chief political adviser, who got him elected twice as well as a whole bunch of Congresspeople beating up on every minority in the book.
- Rep. Dan Benishek gets scolded by old folks for supporting the Ryan Budget. Dealing with angry old people isn’t so fun, now is it Dan?
- The Governor of Tennessee is going to sign the Tennessee Monkey Bill into law. Well, since the Supreme Court is going to revisit and reverse every other major decision made over the last two hundred years, we might as well revisit the Scopes Monkey Trial on the way too.
- Ohio Governor John Kasich speaks heresies, says there’s a problem with our climate. Local GOP responds by putting fingers in the ears, going “LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU”
- Teen pregnancies higher in states with abstinence only policies. File this under “Obvious conclusions to anyone with a functioning brain.”
- Al Jazeera covers Mitt Romney’s Mormon Problem. Also, everyone’s favorite conservative demagogues, the Koch Brothers.
