Information Overload

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Family Research Council’s European Gaycation www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Jon Stewart dolloping out our daily dose of future shock In my senior year in high school, I read a book called Future Shock by Alvin Toffler. In it is a graph that shows …

Deny This

With news of the tragic death of  at least 18 people in Tennessee’s record flooding this week, and another 10 in adjoining states,climate change deniers might want to rethink their position. Now I know that the carbon fuel industry spends tens of millions of dollars muddying the waters on the science behind global warming.  But there’s nothing like some real …

Damned If He Does, Damned If He Doesn’t

Whaddaya wanna bet that had President Obama not dispatched SWAT teams immediately to other rigs after the Deep Water Horizon explosion, Levin and his ilk would have been screaming at the top of their lungs that Obama was unconcerned about terrorism?

What Goes Around Comes Around

Speedy Gonzalez preparing to run circles around the new Arizona immigration law Beyond the problems of racial profiling inherent in Arizona’s new vhere are your papers law, aka Immigration Law 1070 , there are a number of other complications. Already discussed here is the huge impact it will likely have on the tourism industry (see comments section here ).  Executive …

Illegal Aliens

Was NAFTA a plot by illegal aliens to monopolize the food industry? Boy, are there a lot of dots to connect over the whole immigration issue right now, a disharmonic convergence of factors ranging from the consequences of Clinton’s disastrous NAFTA bill to how the new Arizona law, which in true Rovian fashion, seems designed to suppress voter turnout in …

Censorship And The High Price Of Satire

Last November, Jon Stewart told Bernie Goldberg to go fuck himself after Goldberg said that, unlike his hero Sarah Palin, liberals would never have five babies, let alone allow one with Downs Syndrome. (Rose Kennedy? Anyone?)  And then again on Tuesday, Stewart told Goldberg as well as his paymaster, The Lupus of News, to go fuck themselves, this time to …