Image via Wikipedia Timothy Egan nails it in today’s New York Times blog. Take a look at Tuesday night’s box score in the baseball game between New York and Toronto. The Yankees won, 11-5. Now look at the weather summary, showing a high of 71 for New York. The score and temperature are not subject…
Image via Wikipedia Seeing convention Chair Brooks Patterson called an “asshole” Saturday by angry, shouting tea party delegates at the Republican State Convention reminded me that comparisons to the last big takeover of the GOP–in the 1980s–only go so far. The evangelical Christians who 30 years ago organized themselves into virtual control of the…