Of course he is, because this is America, and anyone can become president here, as long as they curry enough favor with enough billionaires…and America also has plenty of crazy billionaires. Cruz is just the first to officially announce his candidacy, and pretty soon Huckabee and Rand Paul and Rick Santorum will come along and we’ll have enough clowns to start a circus.
But as for Cruz…I’ll just let Charles Pierce tell you about him.
In 2003, a reporter asked candidates for the mayor of San Francisco questions from the Voight-Kampff test. Most of them failed.
I’ve been reading the Ferguson report. It’s a horror. Every page documents an appalling violation of the whole purpose of having a police force: these people weren’t there to serve and protect, they were there to skim off as much cream from the community as they could. This wasn’t a police department, it was a racist extortion racket, oozing corruption.
There’s an effort to get Lego to put out an HMS Beagle kit. It’s beautiful! All you have to do now is go vote for the Beagle (no cost!), and if it gets enough support, they’ll come out with a set and instructions to build it.
David Petraeus has made a plea deal on the charge of revealing secret military plans to his paramour/biographer, and of lying to federal investigators. He’s getting off with a trivial misdemeanor rather than getting strung up for treachery. Popehat has a few things to say about that.
I knew she would. You can read her post about her speech at CPAC right now.
After my post yesterday about Mike Cernovich’s idiotic recommendations — he claimed, and I quote, If you’re a straight man, you will not get HIV
— he’s been firing back pathetically.
He tried to argue that global warming is a hoax, because it snows in February.
