Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Affordable Care Act came courtesy of a surprise flip by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. Today, everyone's scrambling to write SCOTUS fanfic about why it happened — what he was thinking, whether or not he really thought the individual mandate should be upheld,…
"There are few attacks more viscerally terrifying than rape," writes Tiger Beatdown's Sady Doyle in the Guardian's Comment is Free. Sadly, that means that conservative pundits tend to relish using the term to describe any act they disagree with.
The New Yorker's Kelefa Sanneh profiles talk radio host Michael Savage, a homophobic, punk-loving, affirmative-action hating paranoiac who seems — almost refreshingly — to be made up of 100% real bile.
The news is out, and the news is that Sarah Palin's admittedly great suits cost Republican Party donors $150,000. Are they worth it? Plus, more conservatives jump on the "Colin Powell only did it because he's black" bandwagon, including Michael Savage, who knows that "they" don't like us white people anyway. Latoya…
Barack Obama's already left Berlin, but the pictures remain. The last time I personally saw the Victory Column, I was 20 and in the midst of Berlin's enormous gay pride parade. Watching young men puke in the bushes while people passed by in front of a stone column was way less impressive than seeing a…
