The good, hard spanking of 2012, Mark Morford [View all]

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Bet on the Nazi socialist Kenyan
Is it not refreshing? Is it not all kinds of wonderful to be reminded that all the spittle-flecked hate and hissing resentment in the world still can’t defeat intelligence, wisdom, flawed but honest integrity?

Behold: The GOP’s relentless, shameless four-year onslaught of racism, birtherism, isolationism and gross antipathy, during which they called the president everything from a communist to a Nazi to a fundamentalist Muslim, failed to rally sufficient numbers of the undereducated and the paranoid to nosedive the nation back into a sinkhole of conservative bile. It was easily the most methodical, coldblooded personal attack in modern political history, and it failed ugly. Hugs all around.

White men can’t jump
Did you feel it? The tipping point? The grand flip from white male-dominated, paranoid n’ reactionary cultural stasis to female-empowered, minority-voiced, messier-than-thou, barely controlled chaos? The 2012 election ushered in nothing short of a new phase, era, chapter in the increasingly weird American experiment, one in which the old, scared white guys of the world, while far from being completely sidelined, are at least no longer assured of their unimpeded dominance and political authority. Not only do the Mitt Romneys of America no longer hold all the reins, they never will again. A wobbly, rainbow-coalition future beats an uptight, monochromatic past any day.

Global warming gives you the finger
The adorably ignorant cluster of global-warming deniers is now even tinier, more ignorant, and less worth giving a moment’s irritated glance than ever. Hurricane Sandy wasn’t a wake-up call, she was a mission statement, an attack plan, an overt strategy for Mother Nature’s violent reclamation of our despoiled world, given how we apparently can’t seem to take care of her properly. Since we’ve waited far too long to take major action to heal the planet, Mother Nature will do what she does best: devastate our overblown egos and rinse the place clean. No one is actually ready.

The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/01/01/the-good-hard-spanking-of-2012/