Month: January 2015

William Rivers Pitt Should Stop Wanking

So I guess I’m a little late to the party, since the 2015 SOTU is SOOOO last week, but I feel like I need to respond to William Rivers Pitt, who wrote: It was a fine show on Tuesday night, a masterful performance, and a...

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Bad Investment

These guys don’t really mind all the negative publicity they get for throwing their money around our political system. That’s obvious. The conservative Koch brothers’ political network plans to spend $889...

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Libertarians Prefer Clarence Thomas

In the January/February issue of the Washington Monthly, attorney Michael O’Donnell has a piece on the differences between judicial conservatives and libertarians. It’s part of a review of two new books on the...

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The GOP Base is Nuts

I pretty much ignored the Iowa Freedom Summit this weekend because I needed a break from stupid shit, but it was quite the spectacle. Mike Huckabee’s performance was emblematic of the rampant lunacy and incoherence on...

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