The ever-stupendous Confederate Yankee (shorter version):

Even though the murderer called himself a “confederate” and wrote a four page letter saying he was motivated by his hatred of liberals and gays, since the killing was in a church we can still pretend the murder has nothing to do with the intolerance and prejudice I and other Rightwing nutjobs embrace. And, btw, if any of you are harboring similar thoughts, make sure your shotgun’s magazine is filled to capacity.

I just don’t know how Gomer missed the fact that killer had an arrest in California, and avoided the inevitable conclusion that he was some kind of atheist liberal communist.

Or, attention Kathryn Lopez.

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Sadly, No! sums up Dan Riehl nicely with this:

Really, you just gotta read that post and stare in awe at the remarkable amount of delusion he displays. When Republicans are winning elections, that’s proof that all Americans are hard-core right-wingers. And when Republicans get their asses kicked? Well, that’s just further proof that Americans are hard-core right-wingers!

But I just wonder what’s up with randomly hyphenating words, like T. Herman Zweibel?

While the GOP is imploding, the neo-liberals (who are really anything but liberal) that comprise the Left, better be careful about over-estimating their draw.

Americans reject the Left more than they do the far-Right. Recent election results may spell trouble for a currently misguided GOP. But they still speak volumes in support of a traditional America.

And that is much more akin to genuine conservative-thinking than that of the new libs we see in the blogosphere. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen much genuine conservatism from the GOP in a while either. And there-in lies their problem.

Has Dan gone ga-ga staring at the cathode-ray tube?

Against hippies, Islamunists, libruls, Democratics, Defeatocrats, Abortocrats, and Toilet sex.

On Second Life. Hysterical.

Be sure to scroll down to the pic of the Larry Craig Center for Family Values.

Hillary vs. Obama, Sadly No! vs. Lambert, Corrente vs. Talking Points Memo, Kos, Americablog, etc. . . .

Oy!

Wolcott, again:

Fox News ran a one-hour special last night on General Petraeus that I somehow managed to miss through sheer dint of effort, though I hear that the scene in which Julie Banderas washed the general’s feet with her hair had a tender, sultry lyricism seldom seen in a cheapo documentary.

Goddamnfucking James Wolcott does it again:

Yes, Mitt Romney’s smile is as phony as everything else about this self-constructed android, his “sunny disposition” simply another subroutine downloaded in the lab, but it’s there, it’s operational, it signifies Reaganesque Optimism with only minor hints of facial strain.

I think it was Keith who famously said, “I don’t have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with cops.”

Or something like that.

Today, the web (webosphere?) reports that an anti-smoking drug (Chantix — it sounds like an American Idol almost-finalist) also helps with alcohol addiction. Apparently, smoking and drinking are often associated and … fuck, just read the story.

eCanadaNow, one of 100s of sites to carry the story decided to illustrate the report with this picture:

And their point is … ?

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SteveAudio, Los Angeles blogger and all-around nice guy, has expanded his blog to a group effort to accommodate three new bloggers. You can find his blog here, as well as on our world-renowned blogroll, which is over on the left right side of this page.

Steve was long on our blogroll on the now-defunct Martini Republic, and SteveAudio is always worth a read.

P: I like his blog, but his use of political anonybloggers is quite disconcerting.

RM: Just for the record, the rest of us (presumably) can discern our left from right. But as I understand it, this kind of rank disorientation is common among gutless, anonyblogging weasels.