All politics is local

Digby does the hard work so you don't have to. The comments at FreeRepublic about Christopher Reeve's death reveal a depth of ugliness and hatred that would make Goebbels blush.

Prior to the Milgram Experiments, people used to claim that facism would never happen here. After that and looking at some of the wacko conservative blogs, I'm not so sure.

Also, it looks like the No On 36 group has a real shot at making Oregon the only state in the Union to defeat a ban on same-sex marriage. This is all so much nonsense until it hits the Supreme Court, of course, but that's yet another reason we need to get rid of Chimpy McYellsALot.