‘O’ Not Again
April 4, 2011In another attempt to pinch-out a phrase for the times, President Obama launched his 2012 re-election bid this morning with a stirring, “It begins with us,” planted on his official site at barackobama.com. I knew…
Category Archives: Politics
Tea Party Blowback
March 31, 2011Despite the over-abundance of mustard, a shit sandwich is still a shit sandwich. US peoples know stupid when they realize it — something ain’t right: Just 32 percent of respondents viewed the tea party favorably,…
Heartless Hawkers
March 25, 2011Unlike many other countries on the planet, at least the ones who claim some form of freedom, a great obstacle facing US peoples is not the economy (though, it is terrible), nature or even some…
Picture Tomorrow
March 13, 2011UPDATE: Another example of corporate misleading, BP-like stonewalling in allowing the real truth of dangerous matters out to the public — from the NYT: On Sunday, Kumiko Fukaya, 48, who fled the area with several…
Krugman at 4 AM — the Fork-Tongued Right
February 14, 2011One of the major problems confronting the US right now (might be THE problem) is the nit-wit clueless ignorance of Republicans and just about anyone on the right. And it’s a ‘not my job‘ attitude…
Un-Fright the Frightners
January 20, 2011Fright Friday: John McCain ratcheted-up national apprehension when on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, he named Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, blubbering: “She’s got the grit, integrity, good sense and fierce devotion to…
Krugman at 4 AM — Reality Bites
January 17, 2011As the GOP pulls his head out of the ass of dumb, they seem ready to crush that horror of President Obama’s health care reform — as Republicans dub it, “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care…
Shooting — Rumination of Ruin
January 11, 2011Even as the news of the world continues to play out, the shooting last Saturday in Tucson keeps it fingers tight on my brain. Involved within this tragedy is a mural of how the US…
Curve Ball
December 22, 2010A lot of different stuff need debate — tax laws, wars in foreign lands, and so forth. However, if something is near-overwhelmingly obvious any kind of debate just wastes time in seeking a solution to…
Krugman at 4 AM — Cry-Baby Diddler
December 13, 2010This country is in a mess, so tangled in foreign conflicts and so twisted in domestic economic terror there may be no way home. And one of the major reasons: The lying, nasty-faced GOP. Last…