If you think 2nd Amendment goes past “security of a free State” to cover individual self-defense, you aren’t a “strict constructionist”.

The US may have lost, but we’re still willing to gut education and welfare to preserve our military empire. Suck on that, rest of the world

This Times piece linking pot dispensary to “57 homicides” is weak. Unsupported insinuation based on a logical fallacy. http://bit.ly/aPVYkn

If we waited for the “free market” to determine when discrimination should end, today wouldn’t be Juneteenth.

Is Downtown Los Angeles on fire yet?

Nice to see the artists on Bravo’s new show take brave stances against television and consumerism. So insightful and original.

Memo to Tea Partiers : The 2nd Amendment gives you the right to own a gun. Assassinations and bloody coup attempts are still illegal.

GOP Senate candidate advocates assassination, condoning “Second Amendment remedies” to “take Harry Reid out”. http://bit.ly/ccwe66

Based on the background noise, I think the World Cup has been attacked by a giant swarm of bees.

My favorite stand-up comic @PFTompkins has an hour-long stand up special tonight on Comedy Central. Watch it and then go buy his albums.

@marcambinder It’s not a question of “all”, but “any”. Can you name one? Your childish defense of the indefensible is really sad to watch.

Meg Whitman didn’t bother voting for 20 years, but knows enough about policy and governing to run California? No more newbies, please.

It’s funny how candidates who vow to run the government “like a business” always seem to back GOP policies that would run the “business” into the ground and enrich their cronies. Any chief executive who promised to shrink the market share of the company and intentionally reduce the company’s earnings would be laughed back down to the mail room, but the standard conservative tropes of shrinking the size of government and cutting taxes are like red meat to “fiscal conservatives”. Any CEO who ran a company the way candidates like Meg Whitman promise to run government would be a massive failure.

Being a “CEO candidate” isn’t about balancing the books and restoring fiscal responsibility, it’s about making sure rich people get to keep as much of their money as possible, even if it means destroying programs that help children and the poor. That’s how Carly Fiorina did it, cutting tens of thousands of jobs at HP, making the company lose 60% of its value, and securing a $42 million dollar payday for herself. That’s how bank CEOs do it too, bringing the world economy on the brink of a depression, but rewarding themselves with fat bonuses for doing such a great job begging for taxpayer money. CEO’s have a cavalier attitude towards success and tend to take unnecessary risks because, screw it, companies come and go. They get paid either way.

Why anyone would favor this sort of approach to governing is beyond me.

Carly Fiorina cut tens of thousands of jobs, made HP lose 60% of its value, and got a $42 million bonus. She’s a GOP hero.

Gotta love that Republicans consider one of the “Worst American CEOs of All Time” a good candidate for Senate http://bit.ly/9XRmOn