The St. Petersburg Times blog brings us this priceless piece of politica: The act of bestiality is a step closer to becoming illegal in Florida now that a Senate committee voted to slap a third-degree felony charge on anyone who has sex with animals. Florida is one of only 16 states that still permi...

The Republican party continues to try and define, by trial and error, what constitutes permissible public criticism of the Bimbaugh. The current focus is on how muted the criticism must be before the Bimbaugh decides you don’t need to be slapped back into place. Lindsey Graham offered up this ...

I think I’m finally in sympathy with those who believe that the White House is orchestrating this whole Rush Limbaugh media flap thing. Take what Limbaugh ended up saying yesterday: Rush Limbaugh carved a new notch in his ever-expanding belt of tastelessness when he predicted Sen. Ted Kennedy ...

A controversial auction yesterday in New York of personal items belonging to Mahatma Gandhi has resulted in a bizarre outcome. The items up for auction, “owned by James Otis, a Los Angeles-based pacifist and documentary filmmaker, include Gandhi’s 1910 Zenith pocket watch, steel-rimmed e...

I like Keith Olbermann’s name for the ugly-ass racist hatemonger: Boss Limbaugh. What’s missing, though, is the right note of affection, so I’m going to affectionately contract it to “Bimbaugh”. I also want to be sure I strike a properly respectful note, given his enorm...

Michael Steele groveling at Rush Limbaugh’s feet on Monday was pathetic enough: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainerâ€� whose s...

(1) First came Bushworld attempts to suppress public scrutiny of questionable decisions taken in the name of national security, most of which involved violence to the constitution and/or other laws of the land. Then came multiple instances of the Obama administration’s full-throated support of...

Paul Krugman seems to have really nailed it when he described today’s Republican party as “the party of Beavis and Butthead”: Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become...

It’s getting so that this kind of thing hardly qualifies as news any more: The Justice Department is defending a provision in a 2008 surveillance law that provides legal immunity to telecommunications companies that cooperated with the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance progr...

A lawyer for Guantanamo detainees is alleging that abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office: Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office as prison guards “get their kicks in” ...