Jason Alexander, on the Aurora Shooting. Fantastic response.
This looks to be some excellent reporting, and it clears up a lot of misconception about the Fast and Furious scandal:
Quite simply, there’s a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands… But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn.
I didn’t catch this when it first happened last week, but OH MY GOD.
Yes, yes, I think he did almost say what I think he did. Fuck this guy and everyone who looks like him.
You got my vote.
Doonesbury takes on the Texas Legislature: pure unadulterated brilliance.
What’s even funnier is the way most newspapers are underscoring their irrelevance by refusing to publish the strips this week.
Who is Robert Reich? He’s a very smart fellow. And he draws really well, too.
Hmm. I think I might install this and use it on Wednesday (when other, larger and well-know sites will be down in protest): SOPA Blackout Plugin.
File this under Right On: Can Montana get away with defying the Supreme Court?
“Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created a legal fiction which forces people—human beings—to share fundamental, natural rights with soulless creatures of government.”
Douchebagsayswhat?
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum singled out blacks as being recipients of assistance through federal benefit programs, telling a mostly-white audience he doesn’t want to “make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.”
CBS News found that of the people on food stamps in Iowa, only nine percent are black — and 84 percent are white.
Seriously, this asshat is gaining in the polls.