In a "brain-melting" confluence of authoritarian crackpottery - Jews as "excrement," Romas as "animals" - America s right-wing confab CPAC just spread their malignant wings abroad for the first time to gather in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, an anti-democratic bastion righteously battling "the woke revolution" in the name of God, nation, family and "Western civilization," aka old white men. Somehow - WTF - the demented meetup got startlingly little press. But take note: The event marked "the American right wing stating as openly as it ever has that fascism is its goal." | Further Column by Abby Zimet
I keep two copper pipes on my chest of drawers. The plumber gave them to me after replacing them six weeks after they froze and burst last February. I keep them so I’ll never forget how the Republicans in Austin don’t care about average Texans like you and me. They deserve full blame for ERCOT’s sucky status quo that