Michael Bryan Book review, posted by John Denker The Republican Brain The Science of Why They Deny Science … and Reality by Chris Mooney This is an awesome book. While reading it, I was repeatedly tempted to say to myself: "I knew it! I knew it! Well, not 'knew it' in the sense of having … Read more
by Michael Bryan
The spree-murder/suicide of racist GOP activist J.T. Ready in Gilbert Arizona has once-again turned national attention upon the poisonous stew of Arizona's racist right-wing politics, and how deeply immured in that muck was former Arizona Senate President and current Arizona Senate candidate Russell Pearce.
It now seems that the Ready was being investigated by the FBI as a potential domestic terrorist. He was suspected of having a role in several shooting incidents in the desert along the border in which camouflaged men shot and killed Mexican nationals, among other as-yet undisclosed criminal charges.
TPM Muckraker (contributor Nick Martin was until recently an Arizona-based blogger) recently posted excepts from an email sent the website by Ready shortly before his spree, and has been following the case for Muckraker. It can be looked upon as a sort of appoligia and manifesto of an American monster.
I present the text of that email in it's entirety (h/t to Robert Haasch on Open Salon for digging it out of the digital trash), after the click. Please keep in mind that lying was as natural as breathing to J.T. Ready, so don't accept anything he writes as fact – this is presented as merely a glimpse inside an extremely disturbed mind. Also note that some of the links Ready provided are dead, as those who associated with him pull their heads into their shells and try to disassociate themselves…
By Michael Bryan
While it isn't exactly what you might term "real", The Onion frequently captures the truth that only satire can capture. Enjoy Romney's new friend Paco the animated parrot after the click…
By Michael Bryan With Arizona having become a primary front in the GOP's War on Women, it seems to me there is a possible means to make the GOP pay at the polls this November for their aggression against the rights and health of half the population. The GOP supermajority in the AZ legislature has … Read more
by Michael Bryan Jesse Kelly notoriously and repeatedly, and falsely, claims that the U.S. has more oil than Saudi Arabia. This has several implications that need examination. First, his fact-free sloganeering indicates that Kelly doesn't really give a crap about reality or facts. Nor is he interested in offering real solutions to kitchen-table problems of … Read more