Don't let foolish pride tempt you to meet Nuggett for a friendly game of pool at some redneck/biker bar in Spittle County!

They'll find your corpse duct-taped to a tree, naked, with a broken pool cue sticking out of your ass and "libtard" scrawled on your chest with a felt-tip pen.

You must be the only person alive who hasn't seen "Deliverance"!

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

· Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Consider that, in its haste to restore funding for abstinence advocacy known to be ill-advised and ineffective, our native criminal class is only following a core doctrine: If It's Not Gonna Work, We'll Pass It!

It's the same principle guiding the No Insurer Left Behind debacle, putting the Wall Street crime syndicates out of business, and winning the Good War in Afghanistan.

The list could go on and on, but I'll end with the War on Drugs.

True for ya.

Although around here, almost anything can be turned into whine.

The Nugget/Trout dialogue is reminiscent of the alleged miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes.

It starts out with only two, but within Glenn's sanctum sanctorum, in the end it proves sufficient to feed the multitudes.

Hmmm, Grayson must be related to comic-book superhero and crimefighter Dick Grayson, aka "Robin".

And speaking of dicks, I understand that Rep. Grayson has angered the Gorgon Pelosi by refusing to attend free snivelling sessions offered by Senator Dick Durbin, an accomplished virtuoso of cringeworthily pathetic public apology.

Rumor has it that when Pelosi was informed by Durbin that Grayson remained inexplicably recalcitrant, she waxed wroth to such an extent that Durbin began blubbering uncontrollably.

It will indeed be interesting to see whether Grayson can catch a rising wave of public dissatisfaction with our corrupt and malignant political duopoly and ride it to a position of leadership.

The Feingolds and Kuciniches are all very well and good, but Grayson may be a bellwether for the return of an extinct species: a Democrat with attitude.

That's good, since Iranians aren't Arabs.
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I don't know, or care, which of the killfiled made the comment that prompted your response.

But they exemplify the "foggy impression" noted below:

Nothing we haven't watched, or not-watched, a million times: a perky, attractive, superficially articulate newsreader breathlessly summing up the overall Official Spin: Prez gets tough on sinister Iran after Iran is caught red-handed by US intelligence agencies operating a secret nuclear facility.

It's the kind of news report that one imagines multiplied a thousandfold, blaring out and half-heard in noisy bars from coast to coast, and leaving people with a foggy impression that those treacherous A-rabs are acting up again and begging for another pre-emptive smackdown.

Gotta do it to them before they do it to us, see what I mean?

Did you include Hoyer because of this?
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Hoyer throws cold water on Dodd's telecom bill

By Eric Zimmermann - 09/29/09 11:59 AM ET [link@sig]

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) threw cold water today on attempts to repeal immunity for telecom giants that participated in Bush-era warantless wiretapping.

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and a handful of prominent Democrats said yesterday they would introduce legislation to strip telecom giants of immunity for possibly violating customer privacy by providing information to the government without a warrant.

But Hoyer seems uninterested in pushing the legislation through the House.

"I don't think revisiting that issue is going to get us anyplace," Hoyer told The Hill today. [...]

Next he'll want to give personhood to pets and farm animals!
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Why not? Most likely he's already given them the best years of his life, if ya catch my drift.

Well done, as usual.

However, IMO your Pelosi needs work. At first I mistook her for a slightly older Hillary wearing a brunette wig.

I'm fully sympathetic that one is unable to fully gaze upon Pelosi, lest one be turned to stone. Even a glimpse of the alabaster edifice of her pancaked and Botoxed brow makes me go stiff in all the wrong places.

On second thought, this is good enough for gummint work.

Glenn, just off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure Viggo Mortensen would be willing to serve as a teevee stand-in for you.

Viggo would just have to be wired up with one of those gizmos Dubya wore during his debates with whoozis.

It's such a win-win approach! "Hardball" appearances alone would skyrocket, even if Tweety has to be double-diapered for the occasions!

They'd all hang harder than winsmith on your every word.

Or: We Must Think of the Pre-Children!
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Franks is more full of beans than humanly possible here.

I wish I could say that it's surprising that he would even be elected village idiot, but it isn't.

The line from Randy Newman's naughty "Rednecks" comes to mind: ♪ he may be a fool, but he's our fool... ♪

I know I've occasionally been severe with bernbart-- Bernbart Classic®, at least, not the literate, logical, even reliably informative Bernbart Zero® persona who checks in from time to time.

But I have a decided soft spot for Bernbart Creole.

Don't ever change. ♥

Leaving aside the anachronism, Roy Cohn was, if anything, the Bizarro World version of Glenn Greenwald.

...there is no counter argument to dementia.
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The fact that you had this flash of insight at the end of your screed is hopeful. It's still a baby step, but it's an important one.

Now, on to discover your personal path to rehabilitation! For some, it's "talk therapy"; others find that medication helps them to get out of their own way. Or maybe a felicitous combination of both.

Keep us posted, and good luck.

Without oversight, insurance companies will continue to exploit American consumers
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To repurpose Natty-J's comment:

That's his job, nimrod.