According to the LA Times:
An Orange County lawmaker [Mike Duvall] who inadvertently broadcast explicit remarks about his sexual conquests over an open microphone during a lull in a Sacramento hearing abruptly resigned from office this afternoon.
The famously conservative Republican Assemblyman was just having a little pre-hearing banter about his sexual exploits with a couple of [...]
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Republicans Are In Bed With Utilities Lobbyists? (It’s Too Easy)
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics
Tags: adultery·California Assembly·conservatives·hypocrisy·idiocy·KCAL·lobbyists·Mike Duvall·NY Times·OC Weekly·Orange County·political scandal·Republicans
Poor Jonah
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Supreme Court
I feel sorry for Jonah Goldberg, a man caught between two worlds. He wants desperately to be accepted as an intellectual by smart, serious people, yet he also wants to get rich selling books to very stupid people. So he ends up doing things like writing a book where he calls liberals Nazis [...]
Tags: abortion·Ann Coulter·conservative logic·Emily Bazelon·eugenics·Jonah Goldberg·Liberal Fascism·NY Times·Oliver Wendell Holmes·organic food·Rush Limbaugh·Ruth Bader Ginsburg·three generations of imbeciles·weathermen
More Palin!
July 6th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Ross Douthat had a column in the NY Times this morning bemoaning the sexism and elitism motivating the media’s treatment of Sarah Palin. As Adam Serwer points out, this follows a pattern of conservatives suddenly caring about issues like sexism whenever a Republican is affected. (Bonus points for the Futurama reference).
This discussion demonstrates [...]
Tags: Adam Serwer·conservative logic·conservatives·John McCain·NY Times·Ross Douthat·Sarah Palin·sexism