Springtime For Walker

From PWN (Parody World News) I wonder if the guy tugging his collar is Governor Scott Walker‘s chief of staff, Keith Gilkes, who put through the call from the fake David Koch.. (h/t Anything Adirondack)

Newt’s Obsession With Screwing America

The Colbert Report Tags: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   Referring to his past infidelities, the Newtster confesses to the Christian Broadcasting Network that it was his love for his country that made him do it. There’s no question at times of my life, partially driven by how passionately I felt about this country, that I …

A Bridge To The 19th Century (Update)

In my post Monday Don’t Let The Economic Terrorists Win, I drew a brief but straight line between the the union busting attempts of Wisconsin Governor Scott ‘Wanker” Walker, and Naomi Klein‘s thesis of economic terrorism desscribed in her book The Shock Doctrine. On last night’s show, Rachel Maddow interviewed Klein after detailing a hideous piece legislation that just passed …

I’m With Matt (Update)

From his interview with The Independent about his new movie The Adjustment Bureau (based on a Philip Dick novel that I found had a thematic connection to The Urantia Book‘s depiction of the Seraphic Planetary Government), actor and progressive activist Matt Damon comments on his former support for President Obama. Few of Barack Obama’s celebrity supporters at the 2008 US …

Don’t Let The Economic Terrorists Win (Update)

Below is the text of a blog that Michael Moore had intended to post on his site, but at the last moment decided to deliver in person this weekend on the steps of the capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin before a crowd of thousands. As there are a number of valuable spontaneous remarks in the speech and reactions from the …

The Paranoid Stylings Of Glenn Beck

Solange Uwimana over at Media Matters draws our attention to an interesting conjunction between Glenn Beck and the late Richard Hofstadter : The year Glenn Beck was born, Harper’s published an essay by Richard Hofstadter in which the historian explained a “style of mind” common among “extreme right-wingers” of his time. He referred to it as “the paranoid style” for …

Who’s Crazier? (Update)

Separated at birth? One says he’s a “warlock,” that people with normal brains can’t understand him. That he has “tiger blood” and “Adonis DNA.” The other says his people love him, and yet he vows to crush them. That the only reason they resist him is because Al Qaeda is dropping acid in their Nescafe. Color me confused. *Warning: Trying to …