On a cold nasty day in March

"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace"

Saint Francis of Assisi

Sco is a daddy!

here is the link:

All the best from Elias Nugator for his dauntless wife and ten blessings as well for his son!

Coulter fires off the 21st Century "F-Bomb"

and comes in for the usual handwringing.
I'm not gonna noodge her about the first amendment, I will note that plenty of smug feckless assholes in that hall roundly cheered & laughed when the alleged columnist called John Edwards a faggot.

Romney wins...

this weekend's CPAC straw poll that is....

Ghod can you imagine how much ass the Former Viceroy had to kiss to pull this off?

One thing I will say about the Right Wing, they know how to overlook the utter lackey-dom of a potential nominee, cringing and toadying is no bar to high office for today's wingnuttery.

Whenever things go wrong for U.S. Conservatives

in the democratic arena they almost invariable compensate their battered egos by raising up the blood cry for radical privatization.
Such is the case today with Jeff Jacoby in the Sunday Globe who is astonished to discover that thanks to the Parker versus Hurkey decision public school curriculum is set by elected school boards and not by pettish parents incited by columnist to mob rule.
Class size in the Commonwealth is what? twenty three pupils per teacher, imagine trying tot each to such an unruly cohort and reach some accord with twenty three sets of parents on what shall be taught?
No, there is a reason why democratic bodies constrained by law and tradition control schools...anything else is sheer chaos.
If Jeff and his friends wanna opt out then there are hundreds of private schools out there to choose from.
Let them set up a scholarship program for junior conservatives or stop whining and start their own damn school.
Well of course, then the cry goes up as to why they should be taxed for schools they don't use and often revile?
Wa-al shit there I have no answer, other than to say trillions in public debt has been authorized in my name on behalf of a war I consider useless...so there is plenty of pain to go around.

Tantrum on the Right

Richard Viguerie, longtime conservative fundraising whiz and chairman of something called "conservativeHQ.com" has emitted a sort of death scream of rage at the current crop of trimmers and dishwater moderates currently contending for the GOP Presidential nomination.
Apparently everyone in the running has some diresome black mark down against them...some of this is relentlessly lame issue politics at it's most miniscule and self defeating.
The fact that these yobs can't even get behind a useless grinning wingnut like Sam Brownback because of his slight deviations on immigration is a telling thing about the current state of conservative politics in America.
These guys are so dreary,fussy and whiny...the whole movement seems to be up past it's bedtime.
Normally fault lines like this would be good news for us liberals, however this is Richard Viguerie we are talking about, the biggest wingnut drama queen in DC.
The man got his start with the American Independent Party in the salad days of George Wallace and ever after liked to periodically threaten the GOP with a ultra-ringht wing third party movement if they strayed from the conservative line.
This sounds like the same old same old...their very strategic disaffection won't amount to much I assure you.
They've had a hard year, they wanna rest up for a bit and get some big name candidates to grovel that is all.

Arthur Schlesinger is Dead

The heaven's do quake.

Ah but Artie had some class now didn't he?
Authored several seminal works of history, founded the Americans for Democratic Action, served President Kennedy as an advisor and acted all his live as a lonely prophet for the coming age of liberalism.
If he had a fault it was in his plaintive insistence that a second new age of reform and renewal was right around the corner.
He spoke much of a pendulum effect in politics that only seemed to swing ever rightward in my lifetime. If the man was ever out of step with his times, it is only because we have left the age of rationality behind us and entered into a new era of synthetic facts and public propaganda. truly how can a historian ever compete with the vices of an entire epoch?
Ah but forgive Artie his little faults, he was among the first of America's serious post-war "celebrity intellectuals" (along with perhaps, William F. Buckley) and after all anyone who earned the hatred and contempt of the aforementioned Buckley along with Allen Drury, Gore Vidal and Dalton Trumbo had to have done something right.