Okay, I’ve been going on for the last few days about the academy and isolation from public life. But, holy crap, here’s a Brown Graduate student who got the NRA kicked out of Rhode Island in his third year in the program!
Derp-tastic fact check on whether Arizona anti-gay bill is discriminatory edited from “true” to “somewhat true, somewhat false.”
Paula Deen: “I feel like ‘embattled’ or ‘disgraced’ will always follow my name. It’s like that black football player who recently came out.” For true.
Jon Stewart congratulates Arizona: “You’ve made yourself too homophobic and dickish for professional football.”
New documents show Bridgegate figures Wildstein and Kelly joking about creating traffic problems in front of the house of a Rabbi who was on Wildstein’s s*#t list. “He has officially pissed me off,” Wildstein tells Bridget Kelly in one text. “Flight to Tel Aviv all mysteriously delayed.”
This just in from the Justice Department:
During his regular morning meeting with senior staff, the Attorney General began experiencing symptoms including faintness and shortness of breath. As a precaution, the Attorney General was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center to undergo further evaluation. He is currently resting comfortably and in good condition. He is alert and conversing with his doctors. Additional information will be provided as it becomes available.
What explains Jan Brewer’s transformation from anti-immigration scourge to right-wing-bucking proponent of Obamacare and gay equality?
Seth D. Michaels points out that, even if they didn’t contain a smoking gun, the Scott Walker emails reveal who we all thought he was.
According to the GOP’s new tax plan, it’s OK to raise taxes on the rich so long as they live in blue states.
I think we can now say with some confidence that the effort to rebrand anti-gay bigotry as ‘religious liberty’ has turned out to be a fairly epic debacle. Not just in Arizona where it’s now dead as legislation but in other states as well and even in the larger context of the evolving national conversation about equal rights and dignity for the LGBT community.
As we noted yesterday, as Brewer flew home from Arizona there was an almost comical run for the exits by various supporters and quasi-supporters trying to get out from under legislation that a growing body of people saw as silly, mean-spirited, economically damaging and completely needless. Brewer herself was compelled to say that she had yet to see a single instance of anyone’s religious liberty being violated.