I have to join the chorus. This

His entire career is attributable to his mom. He was almost 30 years old and was working as the "Vice President" of her tiny company -- with no political or writing background -- when he leveraged his mom's sleazy involvement in the Lewinsky sex scandal and her contacts with the right-wing noise machine into a job with National Review, to which he has clung ever since.

is so sharp and so hilarious. And finishing it off with "to which he has clung ever since"? Oh, the loud shriek of laughter that had been threatening to voice itself with every word came bursting forth with that final redoublement!

Goldberg will have no riposte for that. That jackass.

at sig.

Now I have to work on a pic of Goldberg that will live up to his description here. That will be hard....

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If only I lived in NYC or Washington, DC and not this crappy midwestern town, I could apply for that job with Glenn. So disappointing.

Also disappointing is this letter. Maybe this is how you are supposed to write a letter to the President, and maybe you cannot use the harsh language that reflects what everyone really feels, etc., etc., but this language puts me off a bit.

From Joe Solomonese, who leads the Human Rights Campaign, one of the LGBT rights movement's most prominent groups, to Obama, about the appalling brief in defense of DOMA:

Last week, when your administration filed a brief defending the constitutionality of the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act,”[1] I realized that although I and other LGBT leaders have introduced ourselves to you as policy makers, we clearly have not been heard, and seen, as what we also are: human beings whose lives, loves, and families are equal to yours. I know this because this brief would not have seen the light of day if someone in your administration who truly recognized our humanity and equality had weighed in with you ....

Eh. I don't know if Solomonese felt he had to behave as if craven political calculus didn't have anything to do with it. I guess I would fail at being diplomatic, though, because I would not want to give Obama the benefit of the doubt. His behavior in this area is a sickening failure.

Very Clockwork Orange-esque. Niiiiiice.

except maybe for a nice plate of spaghetti and meatballs with heaps of parmesan cheese on top...

so I would say, run for the hills.

This guy wants to keep you perpetually at arm's length, because he wants to be in some kind of triangle where he is the ultimate object of desire for competing women, just beyond your reach, never quite allowing himself to be possessed, but keeping that tantalizing possibility in your sights. Don't mistake that email for simple honesty and openness. Creepy? Yes. And manipulative.

The liberals should shut up because they are traitors.

Trans: The liberals should shut up because they use those facts (which, as Stephen Colbert has pointed out, have a liberal bias) to try to make us look like we are lying like sacks of shit.

Bill Maher, on Countdown tonight and on Real Time's New Rules last Friday, has characterized Obama as timid and lacking any real political will, saying that he suspects Obama will cave in to corporate interests on health care, as he has on all important issues so far. Bill pointed out that he is sick of seeing Obama selling himself all over the place on TV to maintain his popularity, while not carrying through on any promises.

What is interesting about Bill's comments is this: Bill said that in the past, whenever he offered any criticisms, even mild ones, of Obama on his show, the whole audience booed. But this time he got a lot of applause. I hope this is a sign that the ranks of the Obama-apologizing shoe-worshipping jackasses are shrinking, at least a little.

I have to give Bill a lot of credit. He can be maddening sometimes, especially when it comes to women or Israel or national security issues, but he has always been willing to say unpopular things, despite being in a business where he needs to keep up ratings. So, go Bill.

Hiding Information from Foreigners Who Would Become Inflamed and Harm The Troops; or, Making It Normative To Keep Disturbing Information from Americans so They Remain Complacent about Perpetual War and Continue to Worship The Troops.

again claimed the distinction of Worst Person in the World on Countdown:

Goldberg...defending the far right despite its enabling of such terrorists as Scott Roeder and James van Brunn, writing that perhaps the left is responsible for van Brunn, because, "after all, for years, mainstream liberalism and other outposts of paranoid Bush hatred have portrayed neoconservatives, usually code for conservative Jews and other supporters of Israel, as an alien pernicious cabal."

...this is the first time I have heard [neocon] associated with any religious or ethnic group...the thought never occurred to me until Mr. Goldberg raised it...Neocon may indeed be code, but for belligerence, pig-headedness, stupidity, wasteful indifference to human life, and especially, as Mr. Goldberg's qualification for the title, paranoid!

(Pic of Jonah at sig.)