Who could have anticipated that right-wing bigoted bullcrap, would be revealed to be bigoted bullcrap? Other than those that actually gave more than a seconds thought to the matter?

Erick Erickson, a man who’s penchant for creative thought was imprinted upon him the day he was named, recently decided to reply to #OccupyWallStreet by creating a counter-group “We are the 53%”. All based upon the kind of solid economic analysis you’d expect from a right-wing blowhard. Which makes this poll finding, all the more ironic and humorous.

Noted stereotype-enforcing businessman Herman Cain recently proclaimed that African-Americans are brainwashed into voting for Democrats. because some black people won’t even listen to someone who appears to be a conservative or a Republican. I call that brainwashing. Because it couldn’t possibly be a rational individual choice driven by observation. Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, [...]

Reading the news today is like watching a bad disaster movie. As you shout at the screen for the characters not to open the hatch that will flood the ship, they open the hatch.

The default crisis was sort of like this, with one big difference. A disaster movie “works” because the audience knows something the characters don’t: there’s death behind that hatch. That’s not true of the default drama.

The two speeches of Obama then Boehner do explain how we’ve come to this point.

Right-wing media completely wrong about phony outrage that gets lots of media coverage. So, everything is back to normal.

Actually, the problem is, while Rush may be used to downing ribs with that many calories, the rib–yes one rib– enjoyed by the First Lady at Kelly Liken in Vail, Colorado with her daughters, while tasty, carried less than half that caloric load.

Glenn Beck and his co-conspirators are at it again, this time demonizing an elderly college professor who is now being threatened with physical violence by Beck’s fans.

Yesterday was a day full of anniversaries and remembrances…and deliberate re-writing of history. So just another day at FoxNews.

There was a frightening heaviness to the days following the Tucson shootings. Some years ago, Italo Calvino perfectly described the feeling I had last week: At certain moments I felt that the entire world was turning into stone: a slow petrification, more or less advanced depending on people and places but one that spared no [...]