Survey Says!
January 4, 2011A couple of recent surveys/polls reveal US peoples’ distaste for shit — both via Raw Story. Last Thursday, a national CNN/Opinion Research poll indicated 63 percent of respondents think the Afghan war is going badly…
Tag Archives: Politics
Secrets So Complex
January 3, 2011Last year’s BP oil spill will apparently exacerbate our slide down the backside of peak oil — from Consumer Energy Report today — Further: The 220,000 barrel per day loss will be made up by importing…
Dodged the Bullet — Once Again
December 19, 2010A bit of news not played up here in the US: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, known to his friends as just, The Dick, will skate on bribery charges brought forth by Nigeria — The…
Watershed Year
December 12, 2010(Note: This is a re-post of mine from three years ago, and with an end of the year coming again, appropriate. The original piece appeared here on Dec. 30, 2007. And yes, indeed, 2008 was…
Cry America, Cry In Shame
November 21, 2010(Illustration found here). The good-ole US of A has gone to shit in a wire basket. Or have we been in the shitter a long, long time — take the case of the so-called Great…
‘Damn Right’
November 5, 2010Hypocrisy, from Wikipedia: The act of pretending to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually have. Hypocrisy involves the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie.…
Factitious Boner
November 3, 2010Did we neglect to mention John Boehner is an “asshat”? In a trainwreck of an election yesterday, it was fairly-well demonstrated there’s a shitload of asshats in the US. And this a snapshot of why…
Ballot Box-Cake
November 2, 2010Today tells the tale — the most expansive midterm election in US history as all sorts and sizes of political entities are crowding the ballot box. And to make the entire situation nearly bat-shit-crazy with…
Imbecilic
October 20, 2010Politics does make strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, but in the US for this election cycle, it’s complete bat-shit-crazy — one wonders if there’s a certain element here that’s been created by some demented…
Joe?
October 6, 2010US politics creates some hardcore business deals, even unceremoniously dumping someone for an election. But one deal won’t die — an Obama-Hillary Clinton set-up for 2012. From CNN: “It’s on the table,” veteran Washington Post…