Author: Jay Tea

It is now 11:11:11 on 1/11/11. Suddenly, I feel the need to empty my bladder, and to say something kind about Jonathan Frakes......

If there's one thing that the Tucson shooting has provoked, it's a lot of people going back and flushing a whole bunch of stuff down the memory holes. History …

One of the first voices out of Tucson after the shooting was Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who wasted no time in talking about how the toxic political climate …

As more time passes from the Tucson shooting, more stories are coming out about how the gunman was stopped -- and as the heroes who stopped him are identified …

In the immediate wake of the Tucson shootings, there's a lot of talk about how irresponsible, heated political rhetoric inflamed things to the point where this nutjob was driven …

For a long time, there was an aphorism about politics that struck me as fundamentally true:"Liberals think conservatives are evil, conservatives think liberals are stupid."It seemed to sum things …

As more and more details come out about the Tucson shooting, it's becoming clearer that the shooter (whose name I will not mention) had serious mental issues. Indeed, some …

OK, we have a bit more info on the Tuscon shooting:Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford survived the shooting, is out of surgery, and is expected to "recover." No one is saying …

...is thousands of diaries at Daily Kos getting purged in the wake of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford (D-AZ). Gifford is a moderate, "blue dog" Democrat. She refused …

(Alternate title: The Ceiling! The Ceiling! The Ceiling's On Fire!)OK, let's talk red ink. The US government is rapidly approaching its debt ceiling of 14.3 trillion dollars (let's write …