Stewart’s Sanity Speech, Citizens United, & The Mid-Term Elections

Jon Stewart lays down the predicate for his Restore Sanity speech Criticisms of Jon Stewart’s closing speech at his and Stephen Colbert’s Restore Sanity and/or Fear Rally in D.C. last Saturday are varied. One has it  that he didn’t encourage people to just simply vote. As far as I saw, watching the whole thing on my teevee, the only person …

Shelby’s Ransom Demands

Where did it all go wrong? The great struggle in the evolution of government has concerned the concentration of power. The universe administrators have learned from experience that the evolutionary peoples on the inhabited worlds are best regulated by the representative type of civil government when there is maintained proper balance of power between the well-co-ordinated executive, legislative, and judicial …

I’ll Be On CNN Tonight (Update 2) (Vid Update 3)

UPDATE THREE Kinda interesting how the guy who voted for Obama was disappointed, and the gal who voted for McCain was pleased… UPDATE TWO Well, a heavily edited version finally ran this AM around 10:00 AM PST.  I missed recording it, but in sum I was intro’d as someone who protested the Vietnam War in the sixties and dropped out …

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.

Soylent Green & Corporations Are People Too

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Let Freedom Ka-Ching www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Michael Moore “…corporations are people entitled to protection under the first amendment.” —Attorney Ted Olsen in oral argument before The Supremes The US Supreme Court is currently deciding a case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , that …