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“Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.” Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
Well, frumps, I’ve been trying to lay off Glenn Beck for a while because he’s just such a sorry little man, but every once in a while [...]
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The Party’s Over
Well, frumps, I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later: Glenn Beck is feeling his oats and is going all political activist on us. Maybe it was the success of his 912 Project’s Million-or-so Wingnut March on Washington, or maybe it was the warm fuzzy rush when Candidate Doug Hoffman cited [...]
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Well, frumps, I must say that one nice thing about conspiracy theories is that they have a relatively short shelf life. Maybe that has to do with the emotional intensity that adherents are willing to invest in a particular theory; perhaps they fizzle out from sheer exhaustion – or boredom.
Experts argue about why we concoct [...]
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Well, frumps, it’s not often that we get a chance to sit in on a live Glenn Beck mentoring session but, thanks to the folks at Think Progress, we have a rare opportunity to do just that. The NY-23 special election may be over, but Glenn Beck has made a decision to stand by his [...]
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Well, frumps, lest you have any lingering doubt that the GOP is in critical condition with only a 50-50 chance of survival, we can now turn to Bill Kristol’s prognostications on the future of the Republican Party. If Bill says it’s going to survive and thrive, you can be fairly sure that it will be [...]
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Well, frumps, this is some sort of bumpy roller-coaster ride we find ourselves on. Yesterday I wrote about my sense that there was a growing movement, even among Republicans, toward disassociating from some of the right wing extremism that has plagued us since last year. As elated as I was yesterday morning, by last night [...]
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Well, frumps, it appears that we have an official outbreak of sanity and truth-telling in politics – fancy that. That is not to say that this unusual ailment has reached epidemic proportions but it’s noticeable enough, I think, that we can take heart that we are not on the big toboggan to hell. As we [...]
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