• February 13, 2012

arizona

So much for that new civility. [Daily Intel] UPDATE: The correction, which is somehow even worse:

Because a state lawmaker read “a magazine article on such practices in China and India,” Arizona is set to ban abortions made on the basis of the race or sex of the fetus. Not that there’s evidence women in Arizona abort a fetus based on its perceived race or sex; there isn’t. But this is [...]

A memorial to the youngest victim of the Jan. 8 shooting rampage in Tucson, Christina-Taylor Green, will include a twisted five-foot length of steel beam from the World Trade Center. The monument is a statue of an angel, to be erected in the outfield of her Little League softball field in a Tucson suburb. Umm. [...]

But, Arizona state senate president guy, how are we supposed to distinguish ourselves from the brown hordes? Are you saying they have the same status as white “Americans”? PEARCE: U.S. history, most of us weren’t around when the Constitution was written. But you remember we kind of existed before Congress, the states. We created the [...]

The Republican presidential race has barely even begun to receive any news coverage, but even that level of attention is bothersome to Sarah Palin, who is used to 50% of all political news being about her unemployed life. But Palin has figured out a way to redirect some of this attention back to herself without [...]

It seems we’re working on an “Arizona Trilogy” today, as part of “Trilogy Week” here at Wonkette. (Yesterday was “Americans Unleash Vile Hate On American Muslims” day. Did you enjoy that?) Anyway, the third of our Arizona Stories today concerns 575-pound Blair River, a shockingly fat person who occasionally worked as the spokesmodel for the [...]

No legislative body in WORLD HISTORY has compared to the greatness of the Republican/Tea Party-led Arizona state senate, which bravely responded to Jared Loughner’s slaughter in Tucson by creating an official state handgun and also legalizing loaded handguns at all public events. But the Arizona Senate Republicans have proved they stand for more than just [...]

Arizona’s Republican/Tea Party Senate is a semi-functioning real-life parody of Bloodsoaked Idiot America. This is the legislative body that responded to the awful gun slaughter of state politicians and citizens in Tucson by creating an Official Handgun of the State of Arizona. And now the same group of hate-filled dingbats has passed a bill legalizing [...]

That Arizona shooting? It was pretty awesome. A whole lot of people in Arizona seemed to like it, at least, because guns are cool. The type of gun used in the crime, a Glock, you will remember, suddenly became a very popular accessory that flew off store shelves. But perhaps here is some more evidence: [...]

The University of Arizona has a website, where you can find out “more” about its academics. Like this: It lists two separate “Dance” departments, but only has a single, combined “French And Italian” department. Oh, and they also have a “School of Dance” on top of it all. But if there’s one academic concentration that [...]

Can anyone take a guess as to who Arizona Republicans want to replace Jon Kyl as their next senator? No? Okay, close your eyes and imagine that a scary Mexican man with bloodshot eyes and cocaine pouring out of his orifices is pointing a gun at you and the only way to stop him is [...]

Are you a little worried about the lunatic anti-Mexican gangs of middle-aged white slobs “patrolling the border,” for America? You should be worried: The leader of an anti-illegal-immigrant group was convicted Monday in a home invasion that left a 9-year-old girl and her father dead in what prosecutors said was an attempt to steal drug [...]

Here’s an important development in the 2012 race to replace retiring Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl: Gabrielle Giffords can now speak, or at least lip sync and “verbalize” words. She is making progress. She is progressive. She delights progressives with her progress. So will Giffords hurry up and get in shape so she can run for [...]

Hosni Mubarak announced yesterday that he enjoys being a rich dictator and is not interested in resigning so just deal with it, causing widespread grumpiness and serious blue balls throughout Egypt. And today we learn that the Egyptian army supports Mubarak’s decision to serve the rest of his term. Weak, weak sauce. Meanwhile, army leaders [...]

Oh good gravy, one of those celebrity teevee shows has an EXCLUSIVE video of somebody walking around while Bristol ‘n Tripp show off the empty foreclosed Arizona exurban cotton-field end-of-the-highway stucco box that she bought with CA$H because people have given her hundreds of thousands of dollars for managing to get pregnant as a teenager [...]