Bush Behind Bars

People, get ready.  Justice is coming. You don’t believe it, do you.  Not in your wildest dreams do you think you’ll see Junior Dubya the killer joker sitting in  a holding tank, waiting for James Baker or some other Bush Family toad to come post his bail. So what does that say about America.  That our president can use lies …

A New James Bond

Oh, Oh 7 ready to kick some imperialist ass Juan Cole has a great review of the new Bond movie, A Quantum of Solace, on his blog yesterday titled “A Quantum of Anti-Imperialism.” The movie’s plot involves the attempted regime change of a populist Bolivian president (a thinly disguised Evo Morales) who is unwilling to turn his country’s oil and …

Knocking On Death’s Door

Although the death scenes in these two well-produced tubes were selected for their cinematic qualities,  they can still set the mood for a more serious contemplation of your own mortality. Check’m out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqh2drbzZs&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvtm06DYhBo&feature=related[/youtube] I don’t need to tell you how large the idea of death looms in our collective consciousness, in our daily lives.  After all, people are dying …

Send In The Clowns (Update 1)

President Chimpy cries out for help The term “free market” seems to be code for a Darwinian, survival of the fittest FU mentality. The “greed is good” mantram of the Reagan years has, under George W. Bush, gone into overdrive, precipitating  a worldwide economic meltdown. Here is what the most incompetent and reviled president in US history had to say …

Limbaugh Goes To Hell

Chicken wingnut “Grand Pusbot” Rush Limpbaugh, in full wingnut regalia, photo-opped with the Satan Twins and their twin cats, Baal, and Chain, during his recent trip to Hell.

Palintology 101

Sarah Palin will never hold national office, nor will any Republican at the presidential level for a long time to come. Why? Because America has uneducated jerks in it but is not a nation of uneducated jerks. The Republicans are done, hoisted on the petard of their own “southern strategy.”