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New York Times: “Two boys have been arrested and charged in a street attack on David A. Paterson, a former governor of New York, and his stepson, the police said. One boy, who is 12, was charged with second-degree gang assault, and the other, a 13-year-old, was charged with third-degree gang assault, the police said on Saturday night. Both boys, accompanied by their parents, turned themselves in to the police, according to Sean Darcy, a spokesman for Mr. Paterson. A third person, also a minor, went to the police but was not charged in the Friday night attack in Manhattan, according to an internal police report.... Two other people, both adults, were involved in the attack, according to the police. They fled on foot and have not been caught, the police said. The former governor was not believed to have been targeted in the assault....”

Weather Channel: “Tropical Storm Milton, which formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, is expected to become a hurricane late Sunday or early Monday. The storm is expected to pose a major hurricane threat to Florida by midweek, just over a week after Helene pushed through the region. The National Hurricane Center says that 'there is an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and wind impacts for portions of the west coast of the Florida Peninsula beginning late Tuesday or Wednesday.'”

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Washington Post: "Americans can again order free rapid coronavirus tests by mail, the Biden administration announced Thursday. People can request four free at-home tests per household through covidtests.gov. They will begin shipping Monday. The move comes ahead of an expected winter wave of coronavirus cases. The September revival of the free testing program is in line with the Biden administration’s strategy to respond to the coronavirus as part of a broader public health campaign to protect Americans from respiratory viruses, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), that surge every fall and winter. But free tests were not mailed during the summer wave, which wastewater surveillance data shows is now receding."

Washington Post: “Comedy news outlet the Onion — reinvigorated by new ownership over this year — is bringing back its once-popular video parodies of cable news. But this time, there’s someone with real news anchor experience in the chair. When the first episodes appear online Monday, former WAMU and MSNBC host Joshua Johnson will be the face of the resurrected 'Onion News Network.' Playing an ONN anchor character named Dwight Richmond, Johnson says he’s bringing a real anchor’s sense of clarity — and self-importance — to the job. 'If ONN is anything, it’s a news organization that is so unaware of its own ridiculousness that it has the confidence of a serial killer,' says Johnson, 44.” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: I'll be darned if I can figured out how to watch ONN. If anybody knows, do tell. Thanks.

Washington Post: “First came the surprising discovery that Earth’s atmosphere is leaking. But for roughly 60 years, the reason remained a mystery. Since the late 1960s, satellites over the poles detected an extremely fast flow of particles escaping into space — at speeds of 20 kilometers per second. Scientists suspected that gravity and the magnetic field alone could not fully explain the stream. There had to be another source creating this leaky faucet. It turns out the mysterious force is a previously undiscovered global electric field, a recent study found. The field is only about the strength of a watch battery — but it’s enough to thrust lighter ions from our atmosphere into space. It’s also generated unlike other electric fields on Earth. This newly discovered aspect of our planet provides clues about the evolution of our atmosphere, perhaps explaining why Earth is habitable. The electric field is 'an agent of chaos,' said Glyn Collinson, a NASA rocket scientist and lead author of the study. 'It undoes gravity.... Without it, Earth would be very different.'”

The New York Times lists Emmy winners. The AP has an overview story here.

New York Times: “Hvaldimir, a beluga whale who had captured the public’s imagination since 2019 after he was spotted wearing a harness seemingly designed for a camera, was found dead on Saturday in Norway, according to a nonprofit that worked to protect the whale.... [Hvaldimir] was wearing a harness that identified it as “equipment” from St. Petersburg. There also appeared to be a camera mount. Some wondered if the whale was on a Russian reconnaissance mission. Russia has never claimed ownership of the whale. If Hvaldimir was a spy, he was an exceptionally friendly one. The whale showed signs of domestication, and was comfortable around people. He remained in busier waters than are typical for belugas....” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: Oh, Lord, do not let Bobby Kennedy, Jr., near that carcass. ~~~

     ~~~ AP Update: “There’s no evidence that a well-known beluga whale that lived off Norway’s coast and whose harness ignited speculation it was a Russian spy was shot to death last month as claimed by animal rights groups, Norwegian police said Monday.... Police said that the Norwegian Veterinary Institute conducted a preliminary autopsy on the animal, which was become known as 'Hvaldimir,' combining the Norwegian word for whale — hval — and the first name of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'There are no findings from the autopsy that indicate that Hvaldimir has been shot,' police said in a statement.”

New York Times: Botswana's “President Mokgweetsi Masisi grinned as he lifted the diamond, a 2,492-carat stone that is the biggest diamond unearthed in more than a century and the second-largest ever found, according to the Vancouver-based mining operator Lucara, which owns the mine where it was found. This exceptional discovery could bring back the luster of the natural diamond mining industry, mining companies and experts say. The diamond was discovered in the same relatively small mine in northeastern Botswana that has produced several of the largest such stones in living memory. Such gemstones typically surface as a result of volcanic activity.... The diamond will likely sell in the range of tens of millions of dollars....”

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~~~ Guardian: "On a distant reef 16,000km from Paris, surfer Gabriel Medina has given Olympic viewers one of the most memorable images of the Games yet, with an airborne celebration so well poised it looked too good to be true. The Brazilian took off a thundering wave at Teahupo’o in Tahiti on Monday, emerging from a barrelling section before soaring into the air and appearing to settle on a Pacific cloud, pointing to the sky with biblical serenity, his movements mirrored precisely by his surfboard. The shot was taken by Agence France-Presse photographer Jérôme Brouillet, who said “the conditions were perfect, the waves were taller than we expected”. He took the photo while aboard a boat nearby, capturing the surreal image with such accuracy that at first some suspected Photoshop or AI." 

Washington Post: “'Mary Cassatt at Work' is a large and mostly satisfying exhibition devoted to the career of the great American artist beloved for her sensitive and often sentimental views of family life. The 'at work' in the title of the Philadelphia Museum of Art show references the curators’ interest in Cassatt’s pioneering effort to establish herself as a professional artist within a male-dominated field. Throughout the show, which includes some 130 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings, the wall text and the art on view stresses Cassatt’s fixation on art as a career rather than a pastime.... Mary Cassatt at Work is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through Sept. 8. philamuseum.org”

New York Times: “Bob Newhart, who died on Thursday at the age of 94, has been such a beloved giant of popular culture for so long that it’s easy to forget how unlikely it was that he became one of the founding fathers of stand-up comedy. Before basically inventing the hit stand-up special, with the 1960 Grammy-winning album 'The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart' — that doesn’t even count his pay-per-view event broadcast on Canadian television that some cite as the first filmed special — he was a soft-spoken accountant who had never done a set in a nightclub. That he made a classic with so little preparation is one of the great miracles in the history of comedy.... Bob Newhart holds up. In fact, it’s hard to think of a stand-up from that era who is a better argument against the commonplace idea that comedy does not age well.”

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The Commentariat -- May 6, 2013

Katharine Seelye of the New York Times: Caroline "Kennedy bestowed on [Gabrielle] Giffords the Profile in Courage Award in a small ceremony on Sunday afternoon at the [John F. Kennedy Presidential] Library. The award is given annually to someone who demonstrates the kind of courage that President Kennedy highlighted in his book 'Profiles in Courage,' which praised eight senators who risked their careers by taking principled stands on unpopular positions." ...

... They're Sick & They're Armed. Benny Johnson of BuzzFeed: "The National Rifle Association has asked a vendor at its convention to remove a target that resembles [President] Obama from its booth, a worker told BuzzFeed. The company, Zombie Industries, sells a range of three-dimensional 'life sized' targets that 'bleed when you shoot them.' The Obama likeness has been on display for two days, but was notably absent on Sunday.... When asked if the Obama likeness was intentional the worker said, 'Let's just say I gave my Republican father one for Christmas.' 'They are just scared some liberal reporter will come by and start bitching' another booth worker said to men gathered around the booth. 'But ya know, he does look very familiar.'" ...

... Joe Coscarelli of New York: in his NRA keynote speech, Glenn Beck "included an image of Michael Bloomberg looking uncomfortably similar to a Nazi." Bloomberg is Jewish. With photo.

... New York Times Editors: "A continent removed from Washington’s shameful resistance to new gun controls, California has just enacted a law that will speed up the confiscation of firearms from an estimated 20,000 people who bought them legally but were later disqualified because of a conviction for a violent crime, a finding of mental illness or a restraining order for domestic violence. The law, signed Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown after passage by the Democrat-controlled Legislature, is a sign that enlightened lawmaking unhindered by gun lobby scare tactics and Capitol Hill filibustering is possible in American politics."

Fox ... Henhouse. New York Times Editors: "Mary Jo White, the new chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has gotten off on the wrong foot. Last week, in her first commission vote, Ms. White led the commissioners in approving a proposal that, if finalized, could leave investors and taxpayers exposed to the ravages of reckless bank trading."

Obama 2.0. Charlie Savage of the New York Times. Billionaire Penny Pritzker's family finances & her supervision of a failed bank are bound to come up in her confirmation hearings. President Obama has nominated her for Secretary of Commerce.

Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times: "There are steps Obama can take [to ease the situation at Guantanamo]. He can appoint a successor to [State Department negotiator Daniel] Fried, whose job has been empty since last year, and resume finding new homes for released detainees. Even better, he could appoint a high-level deputy for Guantanamo -- Vice President Joe Biden, say, or retiring FBI Director Robert Mueller or even former CIA Director David H. Petraeus -- to negotiate a solution with Congress, which has been more trouble than most foreign governments. And he can begin sending detainees to Yemen and Afghanistan, both of which say they are ready to receive them. None of those steps alone will result in the closure of Guantanamo.... But reducing Guantanamo's population would solve a big chunk of what has become an apparently insoluble problem."

Scott Shane of the New York Times: "Aware that intensified American counterterrorism efforts have made an ambitious Sept. 11-style plot a long shot, Al Qaeda propagandists for several years have called on their devotees in the United States to carry out smaller-scale solo attacks and provided the online education to teach them how.... The Boston Marathon bombing -- which the authorities believe was carried out according to instructions ... posted online -- offers an unsettling example of just how devastating such an attack can be, even when the death toll is low. It shows how plotters can construct powerful bombs without attracting official attention. It offers a case study in the complex mix of personality and ideology at work in extremist violence. And it raises a pressing question: Is there any way to detect such plotters before they can act?"

** Frank Rich: "The party on the brink of destroying the Voting Rights Act reminds us that Republicans were really the great civil-rights leaders all along."

Retro Romney -- the Amazing Animated Way-Back Machine! "Find a Mate and Procreate." CW: I would be remiss if I didn't link Mitt Romney's advice to graduating college women, which Kate M. called to our attention in yesterday's Comments thread. Kristen Gwynne of AlterNet has kindly provided video of Romney's commencement address you may want to share with all the young women you know. It's 1964 all over again! ...

... Meanwhile, for those not into the Retro Romney Prescription for Female Fulfillment -- over at the Washington Monthly, Kathleen Geier explains to dummies the need for over-the-counter access to Plan B contraception. The particular dummy Geier addresses here is the WashPo's Kathleen Parker, who has pulled out all the usual "reasonable" objections to girls' access to Plan B. ...

     ... Update: also see Patrick's addition to Geier's takedown in today's Comments.

It's "Apologize for Gay-Bashing Week." Kevin Cirilli of Politico: "Howard Kurtz took to his 'Reliable Sources' show on CNN on Sunday to apologize for his 'inexcusable' erroneous report last week about NBA player Jason Collins and for a string of past mistakes that the media critic admitted he was sometimes too slow to correct. During Kurtz's extraordinary 15-minute long confession of journalistic sins, he repeatedly said he's learned a lesson and promised to double- and triple-check all his facts in the future.... It was a humbling appearance for someone who was once regarded as the nation's leading media critic." (See yesterday's Commentariat for context.)

"The Chutzpah Caucus." Paul Krugman: "... if you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama, seven left office with a debt ratio lower than when they came in. Who were the three exceptions? Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes. So debt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.... Here we have conservatives telling us that we must tighten our belts despite mass unemployment, because otherwise future conservatives will keep running deficits once times improve." ...

... In a Washington Post op-ed, Larry Summers defends his friends Carmen Miranda Reinhart & Ken Rogoff: his defense -- yes, they fucked up, but the policymakers who heeded them should have known better: "The authors of [austerity] policies chose the policies first and then cast about for intellectual ballast." Summers also makes the valid points that even accurate statistical models aren't sacrosanct, & policy decisions should never rest on a single academic study.

What Warren Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting.

Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog comments on the news (see also today's Ledes) that the U.N. has evidence it was Syrian rebels, not the Assad government, who used chemical weapons in Syria.

Lindsey Boerma of CBS News: "'Everybody in the mission' in Benghazi, Libya, thought the attack on a U.S. consulate there last Sept. 11 was an act of terror 'from the get-go,' according to excerpts of an interview investigators conducted with the No. 2 official in Libya at the time, obtained by CBS News' 'Face the Nation.'" With video.

I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years. I further think that he is going to run for president, and he is going to create something. -- James Carville, assessing Ted Cruz on the teevee yesterday

Congressional Race

Sanford Has the Momentum. Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling: "PPP's final poll of the special election in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District finds a race that's too close to call, with Republican Mark Sanford leading Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch 47-46. The 1 point lead for Sanford represents a 10 point reversal from PPP's poll of the race two weeks ago, when Colbert Busch led by 9 points at 50-41." The election is tomorrow.

Local News

Florida, Where the Legislature Is Even Worse than the Governor. Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post: Florida "lawmakers adjourned Friday after passing a budget that does not include funding for a Medicaid expansion. Unless the Republican-controlled legislature comes back for a special session later this year -- which some Democrats are calling for -- Florida will not expand Medicaid in 2014. In Florida, where one in five non-elderly residents lack insurance coverage, the consequences are especially large: An estimated 1.3 million Floridians were expected to gain coverage through the the Medicaid expansion."

News Ledes

New York Times: "The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China's military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map 'military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.'"

AP: "The White House asserted Monday that it's highly likely that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, not the rebel opposition, was behind any chemical weapons use in Syria. Responding to weekend airstrikes in Syria, the White House also reiterated its view that Israel has the right to protect itself against weapons that could pose a threat to Israelis."

New York Times: "Giullio Andreotti, a seven-time prime minister of Italy with a résumé of soaring accomplishments and checkered failings that reads like a history of the republic, died on Monday, Italian news agencies said. He was 94 and lived in Rome."

The Hill: "United Nations human rights investigators said Sunday they have gathered testimony from outside Syria suggesting rebels, not Bashar Assad's regime, may have used chemical weapons."

Reuters: "Israel sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that its recent air strikes around Damascus did not aim to weaken him in the face of a more than two-year-old rebellion. Officials say Israel is reluctant to take sides in Syria's civil war for fear its actions would boost Islamists who are even more hostile to Israel than the Assad family, which has maintained a stable stand off with the Jewish state for decades."

AP: "Bangladeshi police are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily built factory that collapsed nearly two weeks ago after the wife of a garment worker crushed in the accident filed a complaint. The legal development comes as officials said Monday that the death toll from the country's worst industrial disaster had reached 645."

AP: "At least 15 people died in clashes Monday between police and Islamic hardliners demanding that Bangladesh implement an anti-blasphemy law, police said. A police official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said eight people, including two policemen and a paramilitary soldier, were killed in clashes in Kanchpur just outside the capital, Dhaka." CW: once again, religion is used to distract people from actual problems.

AP: " The uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev arrived in Massachusetts on Sunday to arrange for his burial, saying he understands that 'no one wants to associate their names with such evil events.' Ruslan Tsarni, of Montgomery Village, Md., and three of his friends met with the Worcester funeral home director and prepared to wash and shroud Tsarnaev's body according to Muslim tradition."

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@Kate––from yesterday and your reply to me: I agree and are aware of the many that are/ were in that situation. But I wonder if his so called "gay bashing" was more for boosting up his argument re: his economic position. When he was criticizing Krugman he lit on childhood trauma. We could call these kinds of efforts grabbing for straws I suppose. Anyway––I get your point and I'd love it if you were right.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPD Pepe

OH,NO! Mary has finally gotten James over to her snide side. How did she do it? No sexy time with me, sweetie, till you lean way over to the right? A Ted Cruz endorsement? Really, James? WTF!

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPD Pepe

I'm not sure Ferguson's sexual proclivities are of particular interest, except they do show how conflicted he is -- he is rabidly White-Amero-Eurocentric, yet he leaves his white wife & white children after knocking up a Somalian woman, whom he marries. He is supposedly best buds with Andrew Sullivan, yet he implies Sullivan's commentary is meaningless because, like Keynes, Sullivan is incapable of caring about long-term considerations.

What Ferguson has done for certain is staked out his island in the Lesser Academics. P. D. Pepe points out his attempts to win his lost argument by attacking the personal lives of his "opponents." This "consider the source" bullying snobbery probably worked for him when he was up against opponents who didn't match up to his fame or academic creds, but its ugliness becomes more obviously lame when attempted against prominent economists. Krugman doesn't know what he's talking about because he might have suffered some unspecified childhood trauma? That's convincing!

As Pepe wrote yesterday, Ferguson's views are not to be taken seriously. He's a fool, and a nasty one at that.

Marie

May 6, 2013 | Registered CommenterMarie Burns

On Kathleen Parker's column on the Plan B pill age limits, and Politico/Geier's deconstruction of Parker's arguments: I am sort of surprised that none of the Plan B analyses I have seen in the press have noted that, in Middle School, if kids want drugs, OF ANY KIND, some playground entrepreneur will supply them. But then you get quality control problems, black market pricing, and the risks of associating with criminals (or being one, depending on how your local laws are written). Logic would argue that if girls are probably going to get those drugs anyway, and the pills are safe (i.e. don't require a doctor's supervision), why encourage the illegal market, why not just remove the age limit?

This age limit policy is astoundingly stupid.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPatrick

Is it just me or does it seem like the NRA is doing everything it can to get people thinking about armed action against the government? And, if so, isn't that fomentiong a resurrection?

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterNancy

@Nancy. You mean "insurrection," not "resurrection." But, yeah, I think so. Shortly before he was installed as the new NRA president, Jim Porter said this:

"... that was the very reason that they started the National Rifle Association — it was to teach and train the civilian in the use of the standard military firearm. And I am one who still feels very strongly that that is one of our most greatest charges that we can have today, is to train the civilian in the use of the standard military firearm, so that when they have to fight for their country they’re read to do it. Also, when they’re ready to fight tyranny, they’re ready to do it. Also, when they’re ready to fight tyranny, they have the wherewithal and the weapons to do it.”

He is advocating for Americans to arm themselves with military weaponry to fight the U.S. government. Forget "tyranny"; that's "treason."

Jim Porter should be, at the very least, put on the terror watch list. And his status thereon should be made public. I don't see a real substantive difference between teaching radical kids how to make pressure-cooker bombs & urging radical men & women to obtain "military firearms" to "fight tyranny." And bear in mind that crazy Jimbo there already has a "standing arming" at the ready for tyranny-fightin'. It's called the NRA.

Marie

May 6, 2013 | Registered CommenterMarie Burns

Marie,

Regarding the terrorist Jim Porter and a large number of NRA (I liked Kate's appellation of Reptile Asshats) "executives", I can only guess that had his name been H. Rap Brown, Huey Newton, or Bobby Seale, the FBI, NSA, ATF and every law enforcement entity in the country, including boyscout troop neighborhood flashlight brigades, would have his name and picture up on the wall of "most likely to overthrow America with violence" posters.

Instead he gets invited to hobnob with the high and mighty, trade jokes about shooting Democrats with La Palin, and to slither onto the set of the Fuzzy Gregory's Rightwing Tiny Testicle Salon and Mendacity Bazaar.

Reminds me a bit of the Jerzy Kosinski film "Being There", wherein a simpleton gardener is mistaken for a political genius, booked on talk shows and invited to consult with the president on matters of national import. Except that Peter Sellers' character was a halfwit only wanted to watch TV and eat his lunch, not encourage dangerous cretins to parade around in public with loaded weapons, cartridge belts and bandoliers, like GI Joe fantasy action figures, chomping on a cheroot while unloading on librul traitors and the president, should he dare cross their slug-slimed path.

Certainly the first amendment protects this volatile incitement to rioting to a point, but they're getting awfully close to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr's yelling fire in a crowded theater test. Proclaiming "prepare to fire on traitors" to a group of drooling, hate-fed, guns n ammo idiots, itching to be let off the chain, is pirouetting on the knife's edge, if my opinion were to be asked, which it ain't.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

I've posted previously about seditioius, treasonous talk by some right-wing loons. The confederates were traitors as well. It was a mistake to allow senior Confederate officers back into society.

Anyway, on another matter: on the Sunday drivel shows, pundits such as Kathleen Parker kept to the tired old "the President needs to make Congress behave" and "Why can't he be more like LBJ?" Someone needs to send these peoplle back to high school and explain the Constitution again, preferably in very simple language, that the President is not a dictator, he is an equal to Congress who has no power to make Congress do anything if they don't want to. Give the President at least a 60 seat majority in the Senate and an overwhelming majority in the House and then he could be more like LBJ. Honestly, as my Grandpa used to say some of these people are just talking to hear their head rattle I can't believe they get paid.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterBarbarossa

@Barbarossa. I agree that remediation is an excellent idea. In addition, it would be helpful if there were a little critical thinking thrown in just for shits and giggles. LBJ was President over 40 years ago and we are in a radically different era. LBJ spent 14 years in the Senate , 10 of those years he was either the whip, the minority leader or majority leader. Prior to that, he was in the US House for 12 years. That's 26 years to collect all those penises that he liked to remind people were in his pocket. The tired old Obama-should-be-more-like-LBJ stuff is like comparing apples to church organs.

Oh and James Carville, speaking of finding a mate to procreate, married Mary Matlin. He lost his mind a long time ago.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterDiane

Diane,

Hear, hear. On all counts.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

When I was teaching and the term irony had to be explained I often used the example of the Chief of Police in charge of drug control came to our school to give a speech on the evils of drugs and their consequences, etc. The following week we read in the paper that this same officer was arrested for procuring drugs for himself. "That's, cool," the kids would say, "but that wouldn't ever happen, right?" (I taught in a mostly white, upper middle class community) "Wrong," I'd say and elaborate. Lo and behold today we have another perfect example: A military officer in charge of sexual abuse cases is charged with sexual abuse. Now don't that just take the cake.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterPD Pepe

PD,

The price of a recommendation for a turd like Cruz should be worth far more than sexy time. Carville, were he the staunch Democrat he has always pretended to be, who offered his approbation of a mendacious, scum sucking piece of shit like Cruz, should demand a Christian version of 73 virgins, or whatever the fuck it is, none of whom are as slimy as his wife. Or himself,

Pig.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

I think James Carpill has finally "come out of the closet" as HISSELF! I have never wondered why he married Mary Mandolin, because I think they are both ambitious scumbags. He was a Clinton insider, and in Joe Klein's book and movie, "Primary Colors," James was played as a wise-ass, druggie, fuck-around. He and BigDog had more than a little in common. Of course, since then--BillyBoy has reformed hisself, gone vegan and become a rich philanthropist and respected party elder--while James continues to play the low life character he truly is. Kinda like Ted Cruz, come ta think of it. Meybe he can be TeddyTurd's 2016 campaign manager.

May 6, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterKate Madison

Thanks, Marie. Sheesh, yes, I meant "insurrection" instead of "resurrection," as well as the correct spelling of "fomenting." Let me try that again: "fomenting an insurrection." Thanks for the catch. Proofread? Me? Why?

May 7, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterNancy
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