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In the sad annals of Trump Derangement, perhaps the bizarre vengeance porn fantasies of New York magazine's Ankush Khardori stands alone in coming from a very very dark place. The typical sufferer of TDS might hope for the imprisonment of Donald Trump and leave it at that.In the case of Khardori he went full mental jacket on Monday in that magazine's Intelligencer section with an over-3500-word diatribe dripping with Trump hate in which he fantasized in extreme detail what imprisonment for the President would look like as you can see in this unhinged missive "What Happens, Exactly, If Trump Is...

Time will tell whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed after Thursday’s hearing which focuses on sexual assault allegations against him. Christine Blasey Ford described to the Senate Judiciary Committee how he allegedly assaulted her at a gathering in the early 1980s. Thursday afternoon, Kavanaugh will have a chance to tell his side of the story, and it will be up to the Committee members to vote on whether to move forward with his confirmation. That being said, even if Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, he may not be totally out of the woods. Like a...

At some point in 2019 (if not sooner) a Republican Senator may walk into the Oval Office and say to President Trump: “Mr. President, we don’t have the votes,” at which point the Trump presidency will end in a resignation or a conviction in the Senate. This scenario actually occurred forty-three years ago this summer when Republican Senator Barry Goldwater walked into the Oval Office and told Republican President Richard Nixon that they didn’t have the votes in the Senate to save his presidency.

I will reiterate right up front the fundamental truth that denial is not a plan. And yet we have Ed Kilgore at The New Republic arguing something that might be summarized as, "Well, the Democrats may be falling out of favor, but the Republicans still suck as much as ever." And because Republicans suck as much as ever, Ed argues, that there really is not much of a danger that the GOP can take back the House, much less the Senate, next year.

Look out, believers! Self-appointed Enlightened Ones have decided to craft a charter to make the world's bowl of Mixed Religious Nuts all get along. The goal? Only universal tolerance and world peace. A website launched Friday with the backing of the technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions. The Charter for Compassion project on the Internet at www.charterforcompassion.org springs from a "wish" granted this year to religious scholar Karen Armstrong... in California (where else?) "The chief task of our time is to build a global society where people of...

Howard’s End My Two Cents on the DNC By David J. Aland [24 June 2005] Stop me if you’ve heard this one: middle class idealists attempt to leverage wealthy capitalists into uplifting destitute workers, but it turns out badly – the rich remain rich, the poor get exploited, and the idealists wind up in bed with everyone. Sounds tawdry, I know, but it’s the plot of “Howard’s End”, the very respectable 1910 E. M Forster novel, as well as the luminous Merchant-Ivory film of the same name. But it’s also an apt description of what’s going on with the Democratic...