Ortho-ducks in a Row

In the ongoing battle to roll back the Enlightenment we have two stories that suggest that certain folks on either side of the world would really get on. So allow me to affect this meet-and-greet. In Israel a group of ultra-orthodox men have given themselves the mission to help people who are different to be … Read more

Person of the Day: Clarence Thomas

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ethical conduct is under a cloud. Aside from this knee-jerk ultra-Right  judge being the most incurious of jurists (he hasn’t asked a question of a litigant in years!) he is also under suspicion of some ethical code violations which, if true, could be disqualifiers. He is suspected of having failed to … Read more

Person of the Day: BRAVEHEART

In the crashing, burning finale to the House Radicals’ ploy to trash the compromise on the payroll tax cut and burn the country, all for the sake of  ideologically-based hatred of Obama and all things government, the stand-out loser is John Boehner. Days ago his crazy Tea Party caucus was praising him to the skies, … Read more

Person of the Day: Denny Rehberg

In the space between savage, deadly mining culture and reason stands  Denny Rehberg. Challenging John Tester for the Montana US Senate seat this man is a poster boy for what’s wrong with American politics. Opposed to almost every mining regulation, advocating for a scorched-earth approach to coal production, the man is flying on wings of … Read more