Now that states with a history of abusive behavior toward minority voters can change voting laws without getting "preclearance" from, well, anybody, there's nothing anybody can do about it.
Logic and facts have gone out the window, replaced by a rhetoric that's no less persuasive in the public square for making absolutely no sense.
The truth, the awful truth, and nothing but the truth. ...
"Welcome, fight fans, to another exciting edition of Extreme Political Wrestling. I'm your host, Jesse "The Body" Ventura."
Before being accepted as a naturalized citizen: Applicants must give up all rights to consort with a Kardashian. Anybody desiring to be an American must immediately stop referring to soccer as football.
Scene 1: The Federation Security Agency archives. Night. A lowly young security contractor named KHAN steals into the archives. Moments later, the archives explode, spilling all of the FSA's juicy secrets all over the Intergalacticnet.
The US government and voices of conscience are now engaged in a war -- not a laughing matter. We can only hope -- to make sense of this ongoing war -- there will be humor.
But why? Are these readers hoping to find out if things today are really as bad as Orwell foretold? Do they want to know if it has a happy ending? Or are they already expecting the worst and simply want a roadmap for an orderly transition?
Dear NSA, It turns out that our handyman has been looking at gay porn on my laptop. Is there a way to correct your records? Name Withheld, Washington, D.C.
You go on the Internet to find just the right image to add to it, typing in an obvious, safe phrase like "pictures of women on their knees" -- but you don't get images of good Christians praising God!
If the new crop of conservatives wants the kind of national stage that Bachmann is ceding, they have to jump in the deep end of the nut bowl with a snorkel and a mouthful of garbled sound bytes.