Shopped Until We Dropped

And when the Republicans and complicit Democrats have succeeded in destroying the social safety net and all American unions, and reducing the American standard of living to third-world subsistence with no benefits, just who will drive America's "consumer economy?" No one. It will be dead, along with the great American middle class. And without a broad middle class, no democratic republic can survive. PERIOD. End of the American story.

Fact. It's What's for Dinner

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

— Hannah Arendt

Truth Isn't a Matter of Position. It's a Matter of Facts.

Snug in the angry vacuum of their corporate media echo chamber, contemporary American right wingers are accustomed to functioning without facts. When they are confronted by the evidence that they don't have any facts, they get that same strange look Wile E. Coyote has after he confidently steps off the cliff into thin air.

When Not to Waste Your Breath

By Dan Hagen

Right wing trolls always seem to think that you work for them, and are always demanding that you supply them a variety of carefully researched answers that they will reject out of hand if you were to be so foolish as to bother to answer them. I like to remind them to shove all that up their ass.

I don't write for — or answer — the trolls, or anyone else who refuses to be convinced by evidence. I write for the public.

Aristotle said you should always speak the truth, except when speaking in irony to the vulgar. I take that to mean that telling them the truth would be a waste, because they are too ignorant or stubbornly arrogant to grasp it.

What Warms

Art by Cherie Glasco

Huginn and Muninn on Public Relations

And here's the mercenary firm's ugly history.

How Dare You Quote Me Accurately, Sir?

Right wingers, being power-drunk, always seek the ultimate power, which is to erase their own previous statements and actions. 
The power to change the past, which not even the gods possess. Well, a megalomaniac can always dream.
Now even Laura Bush aspires to that power.