All In The Family Values

Republican family values– you betcha! Last week, Sarah Baracuda Palin’s  sponsor Grampy McCain throttled back his once enthusiastic support for her 2012 presidential candidacy. This week she was disinvited from being the keynote speaker at the Senate-House dinner this spring, replaced by another disgraced Rethug, Neutron Bomb Gingrich. She also announced this week that Democratic Senator March Begich resign so …

Colbert’s Smackdown Of Glenn Beck

Simply brilliant. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The 10/31 Project comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest

Burning Down The House

Watch out You might get what you’re after Cool babies Strange but not a stranger I’m an ordinary guy Burning down the house -Talking Heads Yesterday while reading an article in the NY Times titled “Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures” I was reminded of the movie Fatal Attraction. In the climax of this highly successful “bunny boiler”, Michael …

Deep Thought

My worst nightmare: Reincarnation is real and I wake up as a Republican. [Image credit here.]

Why I Love Michelle Bachmann

Michelle Bachmann bravely reporting from behind enemy lines Over the last thirty years, the Ruling Class has funded right wing Republican think tanks to perfect the art of political propaganda. Ronald “the Great Communicator” Reagan was the perfect choice to kick off this new media era. During his acting career, Ronnie use to broadcast fake-live baseball games by reading ticker …

The Party Of No Clue

The seemingly always inebriated, chain smoking and perennially tanned Rethuglican House Leader John Boehner (German pronunciation “Boner”) insisted this week on releasing a 19 page, numbers free budget, a supposed alternative to the Democrats’ plan. Reeling from charges that the Rethugs are “the party of no” – no ideas, no ethics, no clue– and despite pleas from less insane party …

Did You Know?

In my senior year in high school, I read a book that was published that year (1970) called “Future Shock”, by Alvin Toffler. In it was a graph of human knowledge going back to recorded history. As might be expected, the line was pretty flat for the most part, with slight noticeable upticks during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial …