Orem, Utah Minor League Team Cancels "Caucasian Appreciation Night"
File this one under "Ya THINK?"The Orem Owlz are a minor league baseball team affiliated with the LA Angels of Anaheim. Orem is one of the whitest cities in Utah. Anyway, they had scheduled a...
View ArticleBill Kristol Weighs In On The Confederate Flag: What Could Go Wrong?
The Left's 21st century agenda: expunging every trace of respect, recognition or acknowledgment of Americans who fought for the Confederacy.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 23, 2015I don't think...
View ArticleThe Unfathomable Self-Loathing Of Clarence Thomas
Psychologists would love to study him Forty-eight years ago, his marriage would have been declared illegal and he very probably would have been jailed. One hundred years ago, the thought of him being a...
View ArticleIt's That Time Again...
Seriously guys. We have two great candidates, light-years better than anything the Republicans can unearth from under a rock. We really don't be needing to have these pie fights.You want to talk about...
View ArticleBREAKING: Federal Judge Orders Alabama Comply With Supreme Court
Shazam!BOOM!Y'all means ALL, Alabama. There it is in black and white. The order that Roy Moore said he was waiting for, the order that Governor Bentley said he was waiting for, is now here. Shit just...
View ArticleSaturday Classical Music Opus 7/4: Music For The Royal Fireworks
Today is the Fourth of July, where fireworks are the preferred way to celebrate. Fireworks have been used for celebration since the Seventh Century, when they were invented in China.It has been a Grand...
View ArticleWe're Missing The Boat Here
There's a scene in The Blues Brothers where Curtis admonishes the boys to"Slide on over to the Triple Rock and catch Reverend Cleophus. You boys listen to what he's got to say."And further on, Curtis...
View ArticleWhat If She Were Hispanic?
Outside of Donald Trump, the only thing on Fox or Right Wing Hate Radio these days is the Kathryn Steinle story--the one where the undocumented immigrant who had previously been deported several times...
View ArticleThe Daily Kos "Purity Wars" As Seen By The Right
How many times have we seen paragraphs like the following here?If you are a [progressive], and if you believe that the way to reform American public policy is to elect [progressives], and you arrived...
View ArticleSantorum Froths At Walker Over Marriage Equality
This one is pretty nasty, even for The Frothy One:In an interview with the Daily Caller, Perennial Presidential Also-Ran Rick Santorum was going about his usual spiel of gay-bashing, saying that while...
View Article"War Is The Only Language Men Listen To"
So goes one of the most powerful lines from the trailer to the upcoming movie "Suffragette", out this October in theaters.There is a deep profundity in that statement.We like to think we have moved...
View ArticleThe Big Money Wants Trump Gone, But What About The Base?
So, the big donors in the Republican Party are starting to speak out against Trump. They REALLY REALLY don't want him on the debate stage. At all. And as you know, as goes the money, so goes the...
View ArticleBernie Sanders Just Broke A Promise
Well, he and almost every other Democrat in the Senate.Why, oh why can't they get it right on education?The Senate was going through its vote-a-rama on amendments to the Elementary and Secondary...
View ArticleGuess Who DIDN'T Condemn Trump For His Statements On John McCain?
Because I'm just that loathsomeYep, that guy.On a day in which the entire Republican Establishment, plus assorted members of the Clown Car of Crazy are piling on The Donald for his remarks about...
View ArticleWill The Nominee Come To NN16?
So that happened.For the second year in a row there have been interruptions at major keynotes at Netroots Nation. Last year the Vice-President was interrupted by an organization made up of DREAMers....
View ArticleOur Schools Are Becoming CIA Torture Chambers
Psychologist Marty Seligman “whose work formed the psychological underpinnings of the Bush administration’s torture program”. Everyone has heard of KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) schools. They are...
View ArticleSSDD: White People Do Hateful Racist Stuff, Get No Punishment
Same stuff happens every day.Remember this story back in January?Some 57 charges of child abuse and assault reportedly will be filed against the drunken hockey fans who subjected 57 American Indian...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner? v.9.52: The Sacred Fire Pit
NOTE: This is a yearly diary to herald the beginning of Summer and the glorious outdoor cooking traditions summer brings. It's late July and it's hot. Hot and humid. Too hot to cook inside. It's...
View ArticleSetting A Narrative: "Ashamed To Be A Conservative"
As we all know, the Conventional Wisdom in an election is to "play to the base" for the primary, then "shift to the center" for the general election. We see all the Very Serious People spend endless...
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