Scandalized

You want to talk about some tough fuckin' breaks? I guess the House Republicans can scrap those fantasies about impeachment based on high crimes and misdemeanors.

Who's watching? Who cares?

Conservative pod people often cite the popularity of Fox News, the big fish in the tiny pond of cable news networks, to validate their peculiar opinions as truth. Fox News has a current daily viewership of 1.8 million, with a prime time viewership of 2.8 million. Putting things in perspective, there were over 129 million votes cast in the 2012 presidential election, about 60.9 million of which went to Willard Romney.

The 2.8 million Fox News evening viewers are therefore equivalent to about 2.2 percent of the American electorate, and only about 4.6 percent of REPUBLICAN voters.

Fox News watchers are a tiny minority in this country, even among conservatives. Get over yourselves, pod people.

Now in Sessions

Rep. Pete Sessions is the definitive example of the risks of inbreeding.

Sorry, Pete. Republicans lost the election because the national basic stupidity rate is hovering around 48 percent. In your district, though, the rate's much higher. About 58 percent, in fact.

Free wisdom

As a rule of thumb, never turn your back on ANY religious fundamentalist regardless of which holy book he carries around.

Added 8:34 AM Friday 3 May: Ed Kilgore has some reactions on a similar topic.

Pound sand, Rick.

According to an AP article by Jim Vertuno I read today, Rick the prick won't be kicking ass and taking names around the state legislature this session. In Texas, good news is hard to come by these days, but in a small way this qualifies as good news.

Scared Stiff

Ed Kilgore of the Washington Monthly writes about the extent to which the Republican Party relies on fear-mongering tactics. The only people buying the shit they're selling are people who are scared shitless.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear." 

William E. Gladstone (British Statesman)

Bomb-Free Zones

Bombs don't kill people. People kill people. What happened in Boston shows why we shouldn't restrict the right of law-abiding citizens to carry explosives.

Trump cards

There were already hundreds of reasons to despise Donald Trump, but here's one more to add to the list.