"Alabama's the Confederacy," Fran Liebowitz said on Real Time last year, correcting Bill Maher's assertion that it was the heartland. Its long association with slavery, racism, and pedophilic Senate candidates will take a long time to shake. Its current governor, Kay Ivey, ...read more
In a perfect world, Virginia's election for governor tomorrow, between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie, would not even be close. Gillespie has stoked the flames of racist Virginians with dog-whistle ads chastising NFL protestors, utilizing Latino gang members ...read more
Southern conservatives continue to rail against the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans because something something "heritage": The monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis was taken off its pedestal on his eponymous street in New Orleans early Thursday ...read more
From time to time, various countries have to deal with political movements that can only be branded as reprehensible. Fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and so on. And in most cases when those movements collapse under the weight of the oppression ...read more
By Bob Cesca: I hate to disappoint the 675,000 whiny diaper babies calling for secession in the wake of the election but, sorry, no matter how hard they stomp their feet and pout and fling their feces at the electoral map, demands for secession might as well be demands for ...read more
