The California state Legislature has passed a bill that requires the state’s public schools to teach about the contributions that non-heterosexuals and non-gender-conforming Americans have made to the nation – and the wingnuts, predictably, are agog.

Funny, though, how it’s pe

It’s no shock to learn that embattled U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York, who perhaps has been attacked even more by his fair-weathered cohorts within the Democratic Party than he has been by the Repugnican Tea Party traitors, is going to resign.

How this helps the Dems I’m not

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Archie-Bunker-like bottom-feeding blowhard Andrew Breitbart claimed on Monday that he has an X-rated image of Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner that he has been withholding in order “to save his [Weiner's] family” – because Breit

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U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York tearfully admits at a press conference today that he indeed sent a crotch shot of his via Twitter recently. Like we really needed the admission.

And they won’t even have to give him

Weiner weirdness

This man-bulge may or may not be that of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, and this image may or may not have been manipulated. In any event, I’m pretty creeped out…

I don’t much care about “Weinergate,” but I did watch Rachel Maddow’s interview

So on the heels of a young gay man having beglittered Repugnican Tea Party presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich at a book signing in Minneapolis earlier this week, advising Gingrich to “feel the rainbow” and to “stop the hate” (see video grab above), the late

Even a casual political observer can see that it’s already over for Repugnican Tea Party presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich, who seems to have flamed out about as quickly as did Donald Trump (whose presidential aspirations, I’m guessing, never were serious).

The only question now is whe

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Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, wife Maria Shriver of the Kennedy clan and their four children, who now range in age from 13 to 21, are pictured in 2006. (Not pictured is the child, who now is at least 10 years old, that Schwarzenegger now admits he

I had thought that the Osama bin Laden assassination would have run its course by now here in the United States of Amnesia, but, with nothing else to replace it – except, perhaps, for the “news” that Bristol Palin’s facial appearance indeed has been altered, sh

Was this past weekend’s assassination of Osama bin Laden legal?

Unsurprisingly, in the articles that I’ve read online, Americans tend to say that of course it was — he was an “enemy combatant” with whom we were “at war”; U.S. Attorney General Eric Holde

One of the reasons that I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 was that I was sick and fucking tired of being embarrassed to be an American. Americans’ assholism was a condition that long preceded the theft of the White House by George W. Bush & Co. in 2000, to be sure, but t

OK, so first, we were told that Osama bin Laden was armed and posed an immediate threat to the U.S. Navy SEALs who shot him dead in Pakistan this past weekend.

Then, we were told that he wasn’t armed, but that nonetheless he still somehow was threatening to the SEALs

Wow. You expected this kind of shit from the unelected Bush regime, with its lies about and cover-ups regarding the Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman sagas, but you (or at least I) expected more from the Obama administration.

Until now I have held off on repeating any of the details that

I don’t shed a tear over the death of Osama bin Laden (in so small part because he’s been fairly irrelevant for years now), but you know, this return to the jingoistic stupidity that we saw in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, is unsettling. Luckily, no Americans have been