If there’s one thing that drives me crazy, it’s the parochialism of the so-called elites.  While it’s undeniable that affluent people tend to live along the coasts or in selected suburban counties ringing cities throughout the country (Arapahoe County, Colorad; Oakland County, Michigan; Collin County, Texas; etc) I always take issue with the fact that [...]

Via Joemygod, Maggie Gallagher (the obese homophobe with face-smushing hair no producer should permit on television or in public) sort of got her main thesis zapped by, of all people, Lou Dobbs.  He asked her how, exactly, does the existence of gay marriage harm a straight couple’s union?  She couldn’t come up with an answer, [...]

Remember when it was a huge deal for pro-McCain preachers–or, for that matter, anyone–to refer to Obama by his full name, emphasizing Hussein?  It meant you were playing up the association that the he was a closet Muslim Manchurian Candidate (a Uighur Candidate?) or at least was “Palin pallin’ around with terraists.”  (Or the Antichrist.)
OK, [...]

Check it:
Others speculated that Ms. Palin, eying the White House in 2012, plans to complete and then hawk her memoir (for which she reportedly had been seeking a seven-figure advance) and also increase her visibility along with her war chest by accepting lucrative speaking engagements — activities not so easily managed by a chief executive [...]

Weird.  The highest-ranking Green Party officeholder in the US, a State Representative named Richard Carroll, is becoming a Democrat.  There are no practical consequences to the switch, because the chamber in question is 72-28 Dem.
I figured, oh, it’s probably Vermont or Alaska or New Mexico.
It’s Arkansas.  Carroll is a former boilermaker (an occupational term only [...]

I appreciate that he’s a genius, and it’s totally fine to vote Republican when the Democrat on the ballot is Rod Blagojevich, but Nate Silver really fucked up here.  (It’s so intense he even got Glenn Greenwald to Twitter about something for the first time since Nov. 6).
It seems to have started off as some [...]

For years, there has been a plan to build a huge wind farm in Nantucket Sound, equidistant from Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket island and mainland Massachusetts. It has been the target of fierce NIMBYism, almost certainly from people with second homes who think it will mar the view (of el mar). Also something about [...]