• February 15, 2012

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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has noted that famous historical Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall correctly wrote that the Original Constitution expressly denied the “individual freedoms and human rights” of slaves and women, and that it took — as Marshall wrote — “several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system [...]

And here’s the White House picture/blog announcement making the old weekend news “official,” that Elena Kagan has been nominated to dig up John Paul Stevens and take his magic bow-tie: “Widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading legal minds, Solicitor General Elena Kagan has forged a path-breaking career in the law and in government [...]

MSNBC, Reuters and the New York Times all just made it official, even if the White House hasn’t: Elena Kagan is Barack Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by John Paul Stevens. Kagan, of course, is a woman and a lawyer or judge of some kind. Aw hell where is our ready-to-post [...]

IT’S LEGAL TO SELL ANIMAL TORTURE VIDEOS AGAIN! Do you “get off” by watching videos in which “women in high-heeled shoes step on small animals,” and kill the animals in this fashion? Or do you prefer to fap to pit bulls tearing each other apart in dog-fight videos? Either way, America’s Supreme Court is furiously [...]

It’s time for Washington’s favorite game: Trying to guess who the president will appoint to the Supreme Court. Why is this so much “fun” for these people? It fills air time, and takes up conversational space, and in general gives a brief sense of novelty or urgency to the crushing pointless grind of existence, and [...]

Whoa! No linky yet, but John Paul Stevens says he’s stepping down this summer, so Barry Radical Cleric Nobama gets to appoint another liberal, which will be a “contentious” process because, uh, Republicans will cry and wet their Depends and Obama will put whoever he wants on the bench. Did you known Stevens was actually [...]

Wingnut dimwit Clarence Thomas is the far right’s most reliable stooge on the Supreme Court, but what about his wife nobody has ever heard about? She is Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, and she also has important opinions based on the the rantings of AM talk radio windbags! And now she has launched her own Teabagger Organization [...]

What with all the youth indoctrination and the video death panels and the actual Hitler plot to provide basic health care for working Americans, we almost forgot it was also Sonia Sotomayor’s fake first day on the nation’s highest court! No real work today, just a photo op, and here’s the touching photo! The only [...]

“Ha ha ha ha, you’re telling me Lindsey Graham’s a pussy! Jesus, lady, he defines the term. Anyway, I gotta go talk to somebody about North Korea or something, you just take it easy and don’t let any of these old white motherfuckers get you down, right? Oh, and if there was ever a day [...]

Lindsey Graham’s least favorite Mexican monster, Sonia Sotomayor, learned English when she was 45 years old, from large-print comic books about Satan. And now, thanks to illegitimate president Barack Obama’s affirmative-action hiring policies, Judge Sotomayor is the star of today’s super-boring Senate confirmation hearing! Thanks to Ustream, we’ve got a live teevee video feed right [...]

Just a few months ago, the world watched with mouths agape as the assorted gentlemen of the Supreme Court tittered over a case involving a 13-year-old girl who’d been strip searched at school. The kid was accused by a fellow student (Curveball?) of handing out prescription-strength ibuprofen to her peers, and when school officials couldn’t [...]

The racist states of the South — including the “honorary southern states” of Texas, Arizona and Alaska — do not like letting black and brown people vote, so 43 years ago the Voting Rights Act was signed into federal law, and ever since those officially racist jurisdictions have to get federal approval for any changes [...]

When scholars of the future — otherwise known as “Roombas” — look back at our chaotic and moronic first decade of the 21st Century, they will have nothing but faded printouts of vulgar old web pages for source material. “Why were there so many pictures of Truck Nutz and watermelon gardens around the Executive Mansion?”, [...]

NOT EVEN AMERICAN: She can’t walk, and now we learn she can’t even talk good English! Conservatives are not impressed with Sotomayor’s over-use of commas — because wingnuts are famous for their exquisite writing and grammar skills. [Andrew Sullivan]

Mexican-hating hill troll Tom Tancredo vanished from America the day Barack Obama became the black president with two mommies (Hawaii and Kansas).