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“No good faith discussion is possible under the current regime of relentless and partisan dishonesty; no clear and public principles can be known when the real mainsprings of Republican thought are cloaked in the pretext of originalism. Instead we have a game of endless Calvinball”

who lubricated the present that it slips so easily into the past?

a bit racy!

so many places to go with that metaphor…

maybe the answer to the riddle of theodicy is just a really bad prompt.

laissez-faire ≠ liberalism

However.

practically Straussian.

there are no deals, commitments are meaningless, but the ironclad principle of the new diplomacy is if you flatter him and make him look good he just might be nice to you. whoever you are. and if you give him an opportunity to look good, if he can take credit, he might do whatever you’d like done.

Many of the worst crimes are perpetrated —by purposeful arrangement—in third countries. Auschwitz wasn’t in Germany. “Extraordinary renditions” weren’t to the United States. A green light into black holes. www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co... ht @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com @jamellebouie.net

no pain no gain

checking is for libs. you can just do things.

whenever i hear the expression "drill baby drill", i think of the dentist.

you scared me for a second there. i favor the oscar just for the relief i am now experiencing. let him have the nobel peace oscar.

i have one, and worry very much about that, however far-fetched some may take it to be.

well if brutally put.

remember when we used to worry about "loose nukes"?

America is admired for its openness and calm self-assurance.