Legalistic Morons

Mentioned here some three wks. ago, the move to dissolve these United Snakes (California doesn't need any of you other states, so we're still formulating the Just Another Blog™ editorial policy on the subject.) is examined in more detail than we'd ever care to go into by an Ed Kilgore at THE DEMOCRATIC strategist. (Not much funny going on when the site has a name like that.)

Some funny (pathetic-funny, not laugh-funny) though, as Kilgore explains Texas Gov. Perry.

In other words, Rick Perry doesn't like "liberal" legislation, and now that his party is no longer in power in Washington, he's asserting the right to ignore any laws that don't comport with his own view of "the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution" or what's "oppressive" or "undue."

Oddly enough, we have that very same attitude about some laws ourself. We aren't sending any letters to Congreƒs though. Some people know when to keep their traps shut. 

Not, however, all those linked in this New Yorker blog, wherein senior NY'er editor Hertzberg admits to having been derelict in his duties.

I should have looked harder. I’m usually a careful reader of Talking Points Memo, but I had somehow missed Brian Beutler’s April 16th post

Guess so. It seems (from the date on our item) that's where we copped it. Mr. Elitist New Yorker is scooped by a nimrod in a one-room ap't. who was on a dial-up connection at the time. The Persecution and Assassination of the Old Media as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of America Under the Direction of M. Bouffant, one might say.

We're just going to read all the links in the items to which we linked, rather than regurgitate whatever's there here. (Thank you. Our pleasure not to exert ourself.) We're expecting all of it to be hee-larious, filled w/ Birchers  ("Birchers?" the reader may ask. Yes. The right-wing extremists are going back forty yrs., to the John Birch Society well, as the Reagan well has run dry when faced w/ socialist messiah Obama.)  & White Citizens Councils.