In essence, Rove-like.

It’s good to see you in the comments again.

I think the winger preference for cigars is partly based on the fact that the good ones are all laboriously hand-rolled by underpaid brown people. They’re also ostentatious, expensive, require little effort to use, and clearly scent-mark the territory.

I knew that background looked familiar and that I had previously seen some doughy rightwing douchebag in front of it before. It was in a great post that the good Glenn did on James Taranto and his apparent self perception as a hard man.

There’s something about looking that closely into the maw of oblivion, and especially about getting splattered with its by-products that forces you, in a nanosecond, to re-examine everything you thought you knew, and everything you thought you thought.

Some people come to understand the value of the human community. Some people just learn how to focus their hatred. But it’s a door – you go thru it, you never can go back…

mikey

And what is it with these wingnutty flag-wavers that they treat the flag worse than a dirty rag, flinging it over some filthy rail as though it were just a decoration, against all standards of flag etiquette?

He looks like Kirk’s do-nothing, tailcoat riding evil twin.

I’m keeping this, ok? [Puts flummoxically in pocket, walks casually away whistling]

mikey

Success in Iraq has always hinged on the Iraqi government eventually being able to provide security for its people, and that has been the biggest failure of this whole exercise.

Except this was, you know, the Green Zone.