Month: August 2012

RAPEpublicans Methodology

Do I even need to go into how much the recent attacks on women have triggered me and mine?  Do I even need to explain how much fury I try to keep at bay so I can go to work, make dinner and …. fall asleep. This is not...

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GOP To Make Windy Pitch to Women

The latest update from the National Hurricane Center projects that Isaac will become a hurricane later today and hit the southeastern Louisiana coast near New Orleans sometime tonight. The storm surge should be 6 to 12 feet in...

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Stealing the Election

The Republicans aren’t fooling anyone. The Denver Post reports: Of the nearly 4,000 letters mailed this month by [Colorado] Secretary of State Scott Gessler to suspected noncitizens — asking that they prove they are...

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Tomorrow’s Convention Speeches Today

And by tomorrow I mean next week. Earlier this year there was a fair amount of chortling (by Republicans) and hand-wringing (by Democrats) over the Obama campaign’s inability to decide on a slogan for its re-election...

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Syria Punished for America’s Failure in Iraq

On Informed Comment, Professor Cole makes a summary of the Syrian rebellian and the increase in atrocities by the Assad regime. The Age of Mass Killing Comes to Syria & France Pushes Gov’t in Exile In recent months,...

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