You knew I’d get around to him sooner or later.

Inexplicably, John Choon Yoo is still a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley. He got his undergrad degree at Harvard and his JD at Yale.  After law school he clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the D.C. Circuit.  Later he went on to clerk for “Justice” Clarence Thomas. I am familiar with the work of both judges – rest assured that they are both right wing nutjobs who, in a just world, would be restocking vending machines or collecting bull semen.

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Subject		Notes	Disposition
	Lancelot II	Refused to paper-train	Terminated
	Lancelot III	Howled at Celine Dion CD	Terminated
	Lancelot IV	Chewed up Lancelot I’s bed	Terminated

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Jesus-Crazed Child Sex Abuser and Intellectual Leader of Regent University Law School. Check Out This Twisted Fuck. His Students Are Running Parts of the Federal Government. Be Afraid.

Regent University is the heart and soul of the GOP intellectual brain trust, a center of psuedo-learning that emphasizes savage racism, xenophobism, hatred of homosexuals, fear of non-Jeebus-crazed religions and advocates the overthrow of secular government in America and transformation of the nation into a medieval theocracy of the sort that would make Iran look like West Hollywood.

Founded by Christian Coalition founding psychopath, evangelist and failed presidential candidate Pat Robertson,  Regent University sent bus loads of its graduates into the Department of Justice and other federal ministries during the Bush administration, most often in appointed roles but some taking on permanent civil servant mandarin positions where they still lie in wait, theocratic suicide bombers ready to spring into action to do their part to reduce America to a cult of Jesus.

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I want heads on pikes, and I mean it:

Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and business officials to organize opposition to the U.S. labor community’s top legislative priority.

Participants on the October 17 call — including at least one representative from another bailout recipient, AIG — were urged to persuade their clients to send “large contributions” to groups working against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), as well as to vulnerable Senate Republicans, who could help block passage of the bill.

And why, you might ask, have I posted a picture of an asshole in a Home Depot smock?

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It was 1993, as we recall. Bill Clinton had just been inaugurated, and one of his first moves was to end the ban on Sodomite-Americans in the military. A bold move, quickly attacked — and quickly compromised.

What we remember about it is a quote from an opponent after the dust settled: “He can be rolled.”

In other words: Bubba had the power, but he hadn’t yet learned how to wield it.

Barack Obama has far more power than a plurality president facing a growing Republican opposition. But as we watch the evolution of what will necessarily be the nine-digit hallmark of his first term, we can’t help wondering whether he really understands the meaning of “I won.”

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Because it cannot be stressed enough – she must be the Republican nominee in 2012.

If nothing else, she’s an easy blog post on slow days.  May she dominate Republican politics for decades to come.

And so as the drama (?) plays out tomorrow up in Ottawa (will the new Liberal leader spike the Coalition?  will he?  will he?), let us take a step back and realize why Canada is so beloved among the nations of the world.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the non-embedded video of Rex Murphy’s impassioned defense defence of Tim Horton’s and attack on meddling municipal politicians and Starbucks — a portion of which is lovingly reproduced here:

We Canadians hold this truth to be self-evident: that the Boston Creme donut is the acme of human civilization as we know it, and that the only experience better than an early coffee and a Boston Creme is an early coffee and two Boston Cremes.  Isn’t mathematics wonderful?

Oh, Canada! We stand on guard…. for…. thee!