Political Pornography

Buchanan invokes Godwin’s Law on the Newtster In a textbook case of the pot calling the kettle black, having professional bigot Pat Buchanan call Gangrene Gingrich “absurd” and “a political opportunist”  for comparing the proposed Park 51 Muslim community center to the Nazis and the Holocaust is like being called ugly by the alien in Predator. Nonetheless, Buchanan makes a …

Pandering To Radicals (Update)

Newtie panders to the radical right by growing another right hand In the histrionic debate over whether a group of Sufi Muslims can or should build a community center with a prayer room a couple of blocks from Ground Zero, President Obama’s articulation of their constitutionally guaranteed right to do so over the weekend has got Newtie Gingrich‘s panties in …

When The Fat Roils

To be sure, there are a lot of fat-cat politicians, on both sides of the political aisle. And you can safely bet most of them aren’t able to think any better than they actually eat. Newton Leroy Gingrich is a great example of what I mean.

When Your Dogma Runs Over Your Karma

Mud thou art, and to mud shall thou return. Christopher Hitchens is an atheist dogmatist. For all his witty brilliance, he hasn’t figured out that only an unqualified reality— an absolute— could dare to be as consistently dogmatic as he is.  And he certainly isn’t an absolute reality. Yes, he can intellectually deny God— and still be morally good, loyal, …

To A New Home In The Son

Two of my favorite artists from the ’70s, Neil Yong and John Pitre

The Giving Pledge

Damn. A couple of days after rummaging through my dusty garage and digging out 40 years worth of notebooks and mementos trying to resurrect my Eat The Rich ’60s era bumper sticker, along comes this: US billionaires to donate fortunes Forty of some of the richest people in the United States have pledged to give at least 50 per cent …