Kiss Your Middle Class Ass Goodbye (Update)

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Elizabeth Warren www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis I want to make out with her , too. In Kiss Your Middle Class Ass Goodbye, I posted a chart detailing the plight of the middle class since the early ’70s that shows the increasing percentage …

Obama’s Freeze

According to the Daily Telegraph A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault… The girl’s father was also fined and warned the family would be branded outcasts from their village if he did not pay. According to human rights activists, the girl, who was quickly married after the attack, was …

BREAKING: Iraq War Was Illegal

The war in Iraq had “no basis in international law”, a Dutch inquiry found today, in the first ever independent legal assessment of the decision to invade. In a series of damning findings, a seven-member panel in the Netherland concluded that the war, which was supported by the Dutch government following intelligence from Britain and the US, had not been justified in law.

Need Dem Balls For Health Care Reform

Half a billion years of evolution and the Dems still don’t know how to grow a pair…

A Supreme Screwing (Update)

Well, we Americans had a good run. We began as a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. But, almost inevitably it would seem, given the impersonal forces of unrestrained materialism, we have become a government of, for, and by the corporations.

Massachusetts Senate Race (Update)

Massachusetts Senatorial Candidates Scott Brown and Martha Coakley A week ago I wrote about today’s special election in Massachusetts to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat: […] Would it be heresy to suggest that a short term Dem loss there would actually be a long term Dem gain, especially as it concerns the pending health care reform bill? For instance, losing …

The Three Witches

  Reading the following description from Wikipedia of The Three Witches, I just couldn’t help but be reminded of the three crones depicted above.* The Three Witches represent darkness, chaos, and conflict, while their role is as agents and witnesses. Their presence communicates treason and impending doom. During Shakespeare’s day, witches were seen as worse than rebels, “the most notorious …