Puckered Gun Nutz by digby I surrendered in the gun wars a long time ago because, well, they won.It's pointless to keep banging your head against a wall. And frankly, I've come to appreciate the wisdom of giving the Bill of Rights an expansive reasding because it's more fragile than I thought. But I...

He Said Earmark by digby ...heh... heh. I'm listening to this ongoing nonsense about "earmarks" and "bridges to nowhere" in the stimulus package as the Beavis and Buttheads Republicans and their giggling fangirls in the media and it's frustrating. I noticed several days ago that Jack Cafferty actual...

The Continuing Assault On Reason by digby A few years back Al Gore wrote a book called "The Assault on Reason." I'm sure many of you read it. We were in the middle of that bizarroworld period after 9/11, when post-modern "conservatives" were openly admitting to creating their own reality: The aide s...

Moving On by digby It looks like the Religious Industrial Complex is swimming against a strong tide: The percentage of Americans who call themselves Christians has dropped dramatically over the past two decades, and those who do are increasingly identifying themselves without traditional denominatio...

Contract With His Pants by digby St John of Sedona has decided that what this country really needs is more inane ramblings from him about the economy: Sen. John McCain is putting together a major economic plan that will be structured, in some ways, off of Newt Gingrich's famous Contract With America...

War With Terror by digby Greenwald discusses the absurd Fred Hiatt column expressing outrage that Secretary of State Clinton refuses to condemn other countries for the very things the United States is known to have done. Read it an laugh at the sheer chutzpah of the village, as it insists that we ca...

Heckuva Job Randies by digby Years ago I used to argue deep into the night online with a real life Randian objectivist who truly believed that capitalism was not an economic system but rather a moral system. And following that belief he naturally considered the captains of industry and the Big Money...

Dots by digby Following up on numerous posts around the blogosphere this week-end about the banking crisis, here's a couple of other interesting tidbits to fill some gaps. There are far too many dots for my meager mind to connect at this point, but the picture is starting to get a little bit clearer...

Torture Talk by digby Greenwald notes that the British inexplicably believe that allegations of torture should be officially investigated. I just don't know what's wrong with those people: From the BBC: MPs have demanded a judicial inquiry into a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's claims that MI5 was complic...

Misdirection by digby I'm sure you all recall congressman Alan Grayson's tough questioning of Fed officials a couple of months ago in which he asked if they would be kind enough to provide taxpayers with a list of the specific institutions to whom the Fed was handing out money. You'll also recall th...