In Which Bristol Palin is Sorely Ill Treated; and we all Smile With Delight

This is the must-read editorial of the year so far.  Frank Bruni takes Bristol Palin and the whole hypocritical, self-righteous wing of the Republican party to task.  His abhorrence of Little Miss Palin seems unquenchable.

Bristol Palin

so perfectly distills the double standards and audacity of so many of our country’s self-appointed moralists and supposed traditionalists: hypocrites [...]

Marriage Equality, President Obama, and Freedom of Religion

“…I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married,” President Obama

I had started down this path earlier this week in response to Vice President Joe Biden’s comments from Sunday May 6th edition of Meet [...]

Fox News Lives Down To All My Expectations

Epic.

Oh but wait… It gets better.  Fox Nation has a participation policy that reads

Fox Nation is opposed to “excessive government control of their lives” apparently with the caveat that it doesn’t apply to women or gay Americans wanting the same rights as everyone [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Obama Endorses Marriage Equality

WOOT!

OBAMA: I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen [...]

The Left Triumphant!

In Europe, at least.  France has a new Socialist President, François Hollande.  While the Euro traded lower this morning (no surprise), the opposition in Germany, both politically and to the ongoing austerity pact with France, was energized.

Ms. Merkel’s political opponents, though, seemed cheered. Sigmar Gabriel, head of the opposition Social Democrats, said on Monday [...]

Free Market Capitalism

On The Absurdity of Domestic Labor

Some people have all the luck…  The conjuring trick that is domestic labor!

But the brouhaha over Hilary Rosen’s injudicious remarks is not really about whether what stay-home mothers do is work.  Because we know the answer to that: it depends. When performed by married women in their own homes, domestic labor is work—difficult, sacred, [...]

Misinterpreting the Decline in Teen Birth Rates

As usual, conservatives don’t understand how to analyze data outside of their ideological frame.  Take the decline in teen birth rates, for instance.

Some voices on the right unconvincingly assign credit for the latest change to abstinence-only sex education, even though the percentage of sexually active teenagers has remained fairly constant. Besides, some of the [...]

The Rude Pundit is Rude… He’s also right.

Lee Papa, aka "The Rude Pundit"

Damn.  The Rude Pundit does not care for the Ann Romney kerfluffle…

Fuck her. And fuck everyone, from the Obama administration to Fox “news” numbskulls, who piled on what Democratic strategist and CNN contributor Hilary Rosen said on Wednesday night. Rosen didn’t say a goddamned thing that was wrong when she offered [...]

The National Paper of Record Smacks Scooter Around… Again

The editors at The Gray Lady don’t much care for the way Scooter is running Wisconsin as a division of Koch Industries and they let him know.  They find it remarkable that, facing an unprecedent uprising against his administration, he carries water for Team War on Women.

The most recent [outrage] came last week, when [...]