View image | gettyimages.com A tot is understandably distressed at being hauled up to participate in the opening ceremonies of a sumo tournament in Himeji, Japan. Equally distressed is the guy on the right, who is appalled at this blatant violation of sumo tournament rule 62.a.(1), which reads in its entirety, “No babies.”
Blog: Paul Waldman
Posted inLaw and Justice
Marco Rubio Gets Surprisingly Specific on Indiana
View image | gettyimages.com If you’ve been watching Indiana Governor Mike Pence over the last few days as the “religious freedom” law he passed has been getting so much attention, you’ve noticed that there are many questions he really, really does not want to answer. He doesn’t want to get into specifics or hypotheticals, even […]
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The Self-Contradictory Argument All Republicans Are Making on the Indiana Discrimination Law
View image | gettyimages.com Now that it’s becoming a national story, all the Republican candidates are going to have to take a position on the new Indiana law that for all intents and purposes legalizes discrimination against gay people. (If you’re in the market for a lengthy explanation of what the law does and doesn’t […]
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Photo of the Day, Mature Butt-Kickers Edition
View image | gettyimages.com That, of course, is Venus Williams. At the age of 34, and despite suffering from Sjogren’s syndrome, a chronic autoimmune disorder, Williams is staging a mini-comeback of sorts. She just beat former world #1 Caroline Wozniacki to reach the quarterfinals at the Miami Open.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Carly Fiorina, As Ridiculous As Every Other Businessperson Politician
View image | gettyimages.com Yesterday, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday that the chances that she’ll run for president are “higher than 90 percent.” And what will Fiorina be offering? Why, hard-nosed business sense, of course! Her political experience may begin and end with one failed run for Senate, […]
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Rootin’ Tootin’ Shootin’ Presidential Candidates
View image | gettyimages.com There was a time not too long ago when Republicans knew that when an election got tight, they could trot out “God, guns, and gays” to drive a cultural wedge between Democrats and the electorate, since the GOP was the party that, like most Americans, loved the first two and hated […]
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Photo of the Day, Human-Powered Locomotion Edition
View image | gettyimages.com Megan Giglia of the Great Britain Cycling Team in action during the bronze final of the Women’s C-3 3km Pursuit on day two of the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images for British Cycling)
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Scott Walker Sees Things With Own Eyes, Emerges Wiser (Or Not)
Last July, President Obama took a fundraising trip to Texas and, to the feigned outrage of conservatives, did not go visit the border. Passing up the opportunity to stand next to a border patrol agent gesturing off into the distance, or to walk thoughtfully along a section of border fence, just showed how unserious Obama […]
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Jeb Bush to Continue Family Tradition of Pretending to Be a Reg’lar Fella
View image | gettyimages.com Just a few ordinary guys, hangin’ out. It’s presidential campaign time, which means that I will have ample opportunity to fulminate against my many pet peeves of political rhetoric in the months to come. There are few higher on that list than the repeated claim politicians make that they aren’t really […]
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Photo of the Day, Starstruck Washington Edition
View image | gettyimages.com The Capitol Hill media were absolutely captivated by this hearing about foreign aid to Africa, which surely had nothing to do with the presence of an extremely wealthy man and an extremely handsome man.
