(Photo-Extreme Sheepherding) I posted Dancing with a Snake last January about the scenarios made possible by Sarah Palin's stoking of embers embedded in the darker recesses of American culture. Toxic Distraction provided additional material on the thinking having roots in the Confederacy and like' [...] 
Perhaps intentionally, the implications of the successful infiltration of a White House State Dinner by the uninvited and unbelonging have not been fully expressed. The event exposes an outrageous lack of security for America's first African American President, the object of intense hatred and bitter resentment among' [...] 
An optimist might have hoped that the explosion of information technology would lead to a period of truth and enlightenment as the ability to confront lies and distortions increased. Sadly, the ability to proliferate total fiction has outpaced that of the truth. Naturally, we see this displayed [...] 
Everyone knows Sarah Palin's book came out today. Walmart and Amazon are already selling it for 50% off. But wait, there's more! For $8.10 at Amazon, you can buy The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book. Actually you can't, for while there are ample copies' [...] 
Lindsey Graham is one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress, but that hasn't kept him off the list of GOP officials facing possible Scozzafavacation. Who will run against him remains to be seen, but the executive committee of the Charleston County Republican Party formally censured' [...] 
An anonymous commenter posted the following recently about a Sarah Palin appearance in Wisconsin.
Emerging high on the of list of moderate Republicans facing possible Scozzafavacation is Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who is seeking the Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez. Last week the Family Research Council PAC and now the Club for Growth announced they are backing [...] 
(Pope Benedict XVI at Auschwitz) Once a Catholic priest, author James Carroll's faith in authority was broken by the Vietnam War. He left the church and began a rigorous study of the history of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism, distinguishing an extraordinary story that' [...] 
At the behest of Rep. Michele Bachmann (Kook-Minn), House Republicans joined the teabagger crowd on the West Front of the Capital yesterday for a hate fest about health care reform. In addition to waiving the usual signs depicting Obama as a clown, monkey, Nazi, etc., the teabaggers [...] 
