COMMON CAUSE’S CONVICTIONS OF CONVENIENCE: Or, given the whole “lynch Clarence Thomas” business, maybe we should call it Kommon Kause’s Konvictions of Konvenience.

Related: Common Cause And The Oldest Profession. “Amusingly, Bob Edgar is a former Congressman himself who supposedly got into things like Common Cause in order to clean up the political system: I’m not sure how this can be reconciled with explicitly calling for the lynching of uppity black men (and their wives) – but then, neither did Common Cause – at least, once they got caught. Although the sheer crawling nature of that apology makes one wonder who from Common Cause’s leadership cadre got caught on camera calling for somebody’s death…”