Newt To The Rescue

Newt Returns To Save America In my post a year ago, Terrified Beyond The Capacity For Rational Thought, I wrote: Make no mistake about it. Like the angry Sumerian god Gozer the Traveler, who made a dramatic comeback after being temporarily forced into inter-dimensional exile by the Proton Pack wielding Ghostbusters, Newtie is back with a vengeance… All Newtie has …

Sarah’s Little Shop Of Government Horrors

During Sarah Palin’s address to the NRA yesterday, she warned them to stay alert because Obama is planning to take all their guns and ammo away, despite any evidence to back up her claim. I’m not aware of a single piece of proposed legislation from either the Congress or the White House to restrict gun ownership. In fact, Obama has …

Another Great Moment In Corporate Douchebaggery (Update)

BP CEO Tony “Tin Ear” Hayward Unfrakkin believable: BP boss admits job on the line over Gulf oil spill The Guardian, Friday 14 May 2010 […] In an bullish interview with the Guardian at BP’s crisis centre in Houston, Hayward insisted that the leaked oil and the estimated 400,000 gallons of dispersant that BP has pumped into the sea to …

Oh My Oilmageddon God (Update)

Yesterday during my daily sorta nature walk, I made the mistake of tuning into NPR. First thing I hear is the breaking news that the scientists they hired to estimate the amount of oil gushing from the BP rupture could easily be 14x the previous estimate, equal to the amount of the Exxon Valdez oil spill every four days. It …

Black On Beck

Glenn Beck thinks playing the Nazi Card is going too far; GLENN BECK! Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Black does the best takedown of the Beckster ever. Especially enjoyed that little emotional, paranoid hitch in his voice at the end.

DespOILing Urantia

With oil gushing from a hole it tore in the ocean floor, British Petroleum failed in its attempt to stem the flow with a giant metal box that looks like something from a Wiley Coyote cartoon.

Nightmare On Main Street

Since the Reagan presidency, the GOP has rightly earned the reputation as The Party of No:  as a rabid opposition party opposed to anything that President Obama and the Democrats propose that might conceivably benefit the middle class and the poor, The Party of No Way Jose;  and as The Party of No Ideas, whose answer for everything is simply …