De mortuis, my ass

Caitlin Johnstone remembers Charles Krauthammer.

Thanx to Avedon's Sideshow.

Purple-ass baboons

The Rude Pundit passes verbiage upon The New York Times, the newspaper that repeatedly publishes the likes of Ross Douthat in a doomed effort to make Our Mr. Brooks sound reasonable.

ETA: Charles Pierce joins the fun:

It’s obvious now that, in the deepest circles of wingnut rhetorical hell, “elites” has replaced even “liberal” as shorthand for “Everything I hate and fear. Ick. Cooties.”

Chrononormativity

“Adulting” as a straight white concept [JSTOR Daily]

Thanx to Metafilter

GIP

Trump plans one-on-one meeting with Putin.

VoteRiders

The Republicans stole the 2016 election. Don’t let them do it again. (Wouldn’t it be nice if the DNC noticed this time?)