Death Panels: Follow The Money
Okay, last straw. Fuck Chuck Grassley and the slug he rode in on. (That goes for DINO Senator Claire McKaskill too, who just appeared on Hardball excusing his sorry ass.) Whatever reason President Obama might have had for allowing this guy to hold health care reform hostage via his position on the Senate Finance Committee just vanished. Grassley spells “bi-partisan” …
Remember This Guy?
MINNESOTA — Life after politics? You betcha. If he’s proved anything in the months since last November’s election, we don’t know what it is. But Norm Coleman isn’t one to sit on the sidelines of life. Back in October of 2008, Coleman refused to officially deny that he had his clothing paid for by prominent businessman and GOP donor, Nasser Kazeminy. Just last month, Norm’s new start up career as CEO of Teh Plantain Republic launched itself onto the sea of clown clothing.
Palin’s Wingnut Reality
Something has snapped in the lizard brains. Once you grasp just how badly snapped they are, you start to realize the real significance of just how frightened and manipulated by fear they really are. Beyond belief? Oh you betcha. Way, way beyond belief. Alternate reality beyond belief. Mentally ill beyond belief. Many thousands of mentally ill Americans who are so fucked up they can no longer discern reality.
AUGUST WINGNUT AT THE BIG CHICKEN
Wingnuts are voracious eaters; they loves them some fried stuff. I’m a voracious reader; so when I happened upon a shiny new copy of WINGNUT magazine in the restroom of The Big Chicken in Marietta, Georgia, I did the Right thing: I totally appropriated it.
This Week In Teh Crazy ·8·8·09·
Another jaw-dropper week in Teh Crazy as we hunker down for the August recess/hyperbolic frenzy of the continuing implosion of the Rethuglicans. Read it and weep. Or cling to your religion and guns. Whatever blows your skirt up. I have alcohol to consume.
Dog Whistling Racist Violence
The source of the problem? Lizard Brain is diagnosed by unusually thick cranium and remarkable subcutaneous fat layer; trapped, terrified lizard is always symptomatic. As Jacques Ellul points out in his classic 1964 book, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, propaganda cannot create something out of nothing. The human mind is not an empty vessel in which ready-made ideas can …
