Fox News is Shocked to Find Negroes In the White House

Possibly in an attempt to distract people from Paul "Soylent Green is Yummy" Ryan's doomed attempt to paint AARP as the new ACORN, Fox is busy whipping up another nontroversy of falsehood, deception, confabulation, and mendacity into a puffy, puffy souffle. They are pointing out, once again, in case any of their pasty white audience had nodded off, that there are (gasp) Negroes in the White House!

You must see the deflating of that souffle by the estimable Jon Stewart here. Watch all of it, because it is a thing of beauty. Also, a nice piece of commentary by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

I don't talk much about race, because as a shockingly white girl of Irish/Scandinavian stock, I always worry about falling into that liberal trap of feeling qualified to speak with authority about something that never really was a part of my experience. But lately, it seems like the right has decided that calling people "racist" is far more egregious than actually being racist and gleefully participating in all stripe of blatantly racist pastimes. But, man, they've blown their dog whistles so long and hard that, at this point, all the dogs have passed out. So here's some advice, Republicans, if you don't want to be tagged as fucking racist motherfuckers, stop acting like fucking racist motherfuckers.

Nancy Pelosi Will Both Drink Your Milkshake and Kick Your Ass

From TPM, this is all kinds of hilarious. The gist?

Panic ensued. In the House, legislation passes by a simple majority of members voting. The Dems took themselves out of the equation, leaving Republicans to decide whether the House should adopt the more-conservative RSC budget instead of the one authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. As Dems flipped to present, Republicans realized that a majority of their members had indeed gone on the record in support of the RSC plan -- and if the vote closed, it would pass. That would be a slap in the face to Ryan, and a politically toxic outcome for the Republican party. So they started flipping their votes from "yes" to "no."

The only thing that would have been better was if the Dems had surreptitiously tied all the Republicans shoelaces together so that when the fact that they had been badly played finally dawned on them, they could have leapt from their seats in a rush to change their votes and instead fallen down and begun writhing manically like glossolalia-possessed loons on the dusty floor of a Pentacostal revival tent.

The clown car, it is truly bottomless.

Fuck You, Republicans. Again.

No. Really. Fuck you. I've had enough of your bullshit. Now that you've grown weary of pushing teachers and firefighters down the stairs, trying to abolish kindergarten, fighting tooth and nail to make sure that loving adults can't form legal families, giving big industry carte blanche to poison the food, water, and environment and serve endangered species as hors doevres, destroying poor women's access to healthcare, you would think you'd have run out of ways to screw everyone. I mean, there must be a line somewhere. Even Hitler liked dogs. But no, there are still new depths to which you're willing to sink.

How about handicapped kids? Why, the don't contribute anything to society. And they're already born, so they're not tender little feoti anymore, so who gives a fuck?  Lazy little slackers, they'd probably just take that Special Olympics funding you're taking away and blow it all on T-bone steaks and big screen TVs. I ask you, are there no workhouses?

Elections have consequences, bitchez.  And for anyone who votes Republican, I hope you enjoy it when they get around to fucking you over, because have no doubt, you are on the list. It's just a matter of time.


You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

Play the Pipes Lowly

It's been all kinds of awesome to see the clips of the Wisconsin protests this last week, especially the police and firefighters, who were exempted (for now) from the most Draconian proposed rights rollbacks. But the thing that gets me every time is the Drum and Pipes Corps. Blame it on my my Scots-Irish heritage, but the bagpipes always make me a little misty.