Palin and Clyburn add fuel to raging fire with “blood libel” and intellectual deficits

I’m just going to summarize what I said in the comments because I’m still on an iPad app and it’s not designed for mini novels. Regarding Sarah Palin’s video this morning, she was defiant. I found it decidedly unhelpful. I was waiting for her to acknowledge that conservatives may have gone too far. I didn’t [...]

Descent into madness

The New York Times: The account by Mr. Loughner’s friend, a rare extended interview with someone close to Mr. Loughner in recent years, added some details to the emerging portrait of the suspect and his family. “He was a nihilist and loves causing chaos, and that is probably why he did the shooting, along with [...]

Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!! Obviously the news is still mostly about the Arizona tragedy and all the political and social issues being talked about. Let’s take a look at a few articles on the subject to see what’s new there. First as was mentioned yesterday, those crazy Westboro Baptist Church religious nut cases plan to protest the little girls [...]

Jon Stewart comments on the Arizona tragedy

TDS, posted with vodpod Comedians and clowns get serious sometimes.

Blogging Rules

I need a little help here. I’m trying to come up with a list of rules for blogging. So far I have three four five six seven eight nine: 1. It would be irresponsible not to speculate. 2. Jumping to conclusions is good exercise. 3. Anyone who disagrees with me is a troll. 4. It’s [...]

Tuesday: Guns for everyone (and bullets for every gun) edition

As realists we know that here in the United States we aren’t ever going to outlaw private ownership of guns. But, you might (realistically) think that this Tuesday morning — nearly 3 days after the terrible shooting in Tucson — there would be a steady stream of articles calling for more serious regulation of the [...]

Another half-million hits

  Sometime yesterday (today for us people on the left coast) The Confluence passed 10.5 million hits (that’s “page views” for Kreepy Kevin and his half-wit followers.) We passed 10 million back on October 18th, so we’re maintaining an average of 2 million hits annually. Our traffic is actually up a little from last summer, [...]

Who do we blame for THIS nut?

HuffPoop: Shawn Christie, Alleged Sarah Palin Stalker, Reportedly Causing New Concern In Alaska Shawn Christy, a 19-year-old Pennsylvania teenager who has had a restraining order issued against him by the former Alaska governor, is causing anxiety in the Frontier State with reports that he has planned a visit to Wasilla. TMZ reports: 19-year-old Shawn Christy [...]

WWHD?

I should have written a post about this earlier because I really don’t like the meme “politicizing a tragedy” and you won’t hear me using it. The reason you won’t hear me using it is because words like “politicizing” are cooked up by operatives at the speed of light and are used to short circuit [...]

Politicizing a tragedy

This is wrong: One veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated rhetoric for the shooting, said President Barack Obama should carefully but forcefully do what his predecessor did. “They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia [...]