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Ack. I used to get emails from the mother of a friend of my son's...a family of messianic Jews. And yep, nothing but conspiracy theories and crazy crap like this. Even her son admitted his mother was a nutcase. Blocked her. And calm reigned. I think I now know where she was getting her ideas.

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Cake? Or death?

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Did you somehow miss the Zimmerman trial?

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I am a lapsed kneeler, i.e. Catholic.

(Actually, that's a lie. I'm not lapsed, I'm just not a Catholic.)

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Between the knishes and the kugel (NO RAISINS, GODDAMNIT), I could be Jewish...

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Are we talking potato kugel (no raisin, EVER!!) or noodle kugel, which is a delicious dessert?

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Why did I click the link? Why?! I need brain bleach after reading that shit and I'm considering gouging out my eyes so I never can read a comment section like that again. I feel nauseated.

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Yeah, sorry. I deliberately avoided the academic discussion of where that nonsense comes from, and went straight to the people who still espouse it.

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My guess is that the internal polling started to look very, very ugly even among the base.

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not judging or anything but here's a legal definition: barretry

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If only. (Heads assploding).

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Barack Obama's mother is white.

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The air force dropped a nuclear bomb (without the trigger) on South Carolina in 1958. Only the high-explosive detonator went off, making a nice little crater. You would think they could take a hint.

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That's fine. It's the prolapsed Catholics who cause all the problems.

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Rush Limbaugh is a prolapsed Methodist.

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Shorter Larry Klayman: "No, I don't recognize my own positions being repeated verbatim by a racist mass murderer. Hey, what's that over there? LOOK, ELVIS! *ducks out of sight*"

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