“The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, four years later, at the end of August 2004, a Zogby poll discovered the critical fact that 57 percent of the undecided voters in that year's election would rather have a beer with George Bush than with John Kerry. The question was odd enough on its face, but a nation to which it would matter is odder still. Be… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share
“Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“It’s not that there is less information on television than there once was. In fact, there is so much information that “fact” is now… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink,… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there.” — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“At that exact moment, Nancy Grace, a CNN legal commentator who combines the nuance of a sledgehammer with the social graces of a harpy..” — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“Politics is beginning to gather itself into an election season in which the price of a candidate's haircuts will be as important for a… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“By comparison, George W. Bush was light and breezy and apparently forgot during one debate that Social Security was a federal program. In fact,… — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
“America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.” — Charles P. Pierce Copy Share Image
