On this beautiful Friday morning I turn my attention away from the usual topics and turn to the weirdness and cruelty of the right-wing.
Salon has a post about the cruelty of National Review, the late Willliam Buckley’s version of Rosemary’s Baby, on the passing of Maya Angelou.
National Review also attacks Edward Snowden. No surprise there. But it does get weird.
National Review writer Christine Sisto, associate editorial assistant, claims Snowden is a hipster.
How does Sisto know?
She’s a hipster expert. She lives in Brooklyn.
Snowden committed his crime because of an insatiable need to be the center of attention, and he refuses to go back to the United States because of an aversion to being told that he is wrong — two defining hipster characteristics. And if I have learned anything from living in Brooklyn, it’s that hipsters are not to be trusted.
Well, hell. I know something about hipsters. I live in Logan Square. Unless you’re 22 years old, you need to be grandfathered in to live here.
I thought Snowden was brilliant with Brian Williams the other night.
But is he a hipster?
You knew Snowden won that PR battle by the way John Kerry went ballistic about the interview.
Is it me, or does Kerry get weirder and weirder looking as he gets older?
Snowden testified that the NSA is hiding a paper trail of evidence that he made every effort to go through channels.
Christine Sisto also has a paper trail.
On other topics she has written:
“It has been nearly 150 years since slavery was abolished and the African-American community still hasn’t solved the N-word debate.”
Really?
I’m pretty sure the verdict is in.
Christine Sisto writes an article about The Gays. Alert: It is always trouble when somebody uses “the” in front of a group name. Like when that guy in Utah said, “Let me tell you something about The Negro.”
Sisto writes, “Same-sex marriage has ushered in a new phase of “not judging” anyone or anything.”
I’m sure that’s not true.
We can still judge racist and homophobic assholes.
Like Sisto.
And as for Edward Snowden.
Wouldn’t you love to see him go face to face with the creepy-looking John Kerry? It would make Kerry’s presidential campaign debates look great by comparison.
Remember, Kerry is the guy who lost those presidential campaign debates to George W. Bush.
To George W. Bush.
Fred Klonsky 
I agree with you on all your Kerry observations!
I think well I just could nit stand W so I overlooked the dudness of Kerry . That seems to be the only argument for the dems . We are dud but not as bad as fill in the blank republican
I don’t want to get my hopes up about the big revelations to come but… Russel Tice did say he saw a folder marked Obama pop up just after his speech at Kerrys convention That file would have to have info on his time in the Illinois Legis………….I would sure love to see what they had . Tice claims there is dirt on everyone they keep files on . He mentioned all of Congress, Exec Branch Defense executives, SCOTUS and apparently even the ILGA
Greenwald said that they will expose who the NSA is really spying on and why. I think this may be what he was hinting at
Any other guesses?
Kerry told Snowden to “man up” and get his ass back to the USA so he can be put into solitary and fed from a tube. That’s the same Kerry who ran for President on the “Kerry Lieberman” ticket and couldn’t figure out why he was losing…