The Occasional Tendown August 19-September 1 2012

Dear Internet: REM had a song about Leonard Cohen called "World Leader Pretend". The takeaway from Eastwood's empty chair soliloquy at the Right Wing Convention was that the old man went off the reservation.  Instead of that, consider it as emblematic of the entire world in which the right wing lives.  The Obama who actually exists, the center/right President who has presided over this