Is there a more disgusting vicious vile political operative alive than Mary Matalin? Despicable shitbagges like her make me want to believe in god, heaven, and hell.

I have to say, I am fucken shocked that the Rays are pretty much out of it, and the Orioles are taking it down to the wire with the Yanks. One month ago, I would have bet strongly on the opposite. Although I guess this was sort of predictable with the Rays very shallow batting.

The subclass of the very rich who mooch the most via the tax absurd treatment of capital gains and carried interest, such as hedge fund managers, venture capitalists, and other “investors”, have captured *both* political parties. The only way the capital gains tax and carried interest exemption will ever be made fair by treating those …

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Historiann is posting an interview she conducted with women’s history great Mary Beth Norton (third part to be posted tomorrow). The whole thing is worth reading for a fascinating account of the early days of the development of women’s history as a subfield of history and of women’s fight to break into the history profession …

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Whatte the fucke is uppe with this right-wing loonie obsession with Obama’s college transcript? These deranged wackanauts seem to think they contain some kind of MASSIVE BOMBSHELL THAT WILL DESTROY THE LEGITIMACY OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY. What do they think? He got a C+ in freshman calculus or something?

Can someone please explain to me what the fucke possible positive purpose could ever be served by fucken FOREIGN SERVICE DIPLOMATS spewing gibberish on goddamn motherfucken twitter????? I mean seriously. Isn’t the basis of diplomacy that you communicate using carefully worded detailed statements arrived at only after careful deliberation? And isn’t the entire purpose of …

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Here’s a nice one. Clueless racist misogynist white d00d “libertarian” asshole high-school debate-team CHAMPEEN! Here is a sampling of his debate-team CHAMPEEN rhetoric: We are great at tearing down our opponents’ arguments. Was I being unreasonable? Please let me know. Huh, I know a few black people. Again, if you’re disallowed from doing the work …

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