Andrew Breitbart Dead: Conservative Blogger Dies Suddenly At 43

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and journalist, died suddenly on Thursday morning[.]

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The world has a little less hate in it today, and I am as unsympathetic to this bigot’s death as I will be when others of his ilk like Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, et al meet their maker. Good riddance Breitbart, you bigoted piece of shit!

For those of the mindset that think one should not speak ill of the dead it is obvious that I disagree. I do not believe that one who spent a lifetime spewing bigotries should somehow have bestowed upon them a modicum of respect simply because they met their maker. No, the only place one should find sympathy for someone of Breitbart’s character should be in a dictionary, somewhere between shit and syphilis. [MSH]

The Electoral Wasteland

In barely a century’s time, the population of the United States has more than tripled, to 313 million. We are a clattering, opinionated cluster of nearly all the world’s races and religions, and many of its languages, under one flag.

You would not know any of this looking at who is voting in one of the strangest presidential primary campaigns in history. There is no other way to put this without resorting to demographic bluntness: the small fraction of Americans who are trying to pick the Republican [i.e., Reactionary] nominee are old, white, uniformly Christian [i.e., willfully ignorant literalists] and unrepresentative of the nation at large.

None of that is a surprise. But when you look at the numbers, it’s stunning how  little this Republican [i.e., Reactionary] primary electorate resembles the rest of the United States.  They are much closer to the population of 1890 than of 2012.

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Where Are the Women? (Video)

[Thursday, 02.16.2012] on Capitol Hill, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform assembled a panel to discuss the birth control mandate in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The panel consisted of eight male anti-choice, anti-contraception religious leaders and one female anti-choice witness. None had health credentials. . . .

California [Reactionary] Darrell Issa chaired the panel, and because [Reactionaries] hold a majority in the House, he was able to choreograph the entire proceedings. He thoughtfully assembled a diverse group of men who don’t necessarily have any real, fact-based reason to oppose birth control except for the fact that it made them feel icky. Invited to testify were five men. And no women. The whole thing was, to put it as succinctly as possible, depressing as fuck.

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