The Dunning Kruger Effect: Part II

To paraphrase Dunning-Kruger: Fools lack the tools to recognize their foolishness; i.e. their limitations. The alternative to this lack of self-awareness is to blame someone else for their failures; to wit, that secret Muslim-Kenyan commie illegally occupying the White House. Naturally, this illegal occupation trope is being sold to the gullible as a promise by certain GOP presidential candidates to repeal every piece of legislation, every executive order, signed into law by our illegitimate president. Because freedom!

Iraqis Crap On Bush’s SOFA, Update IV

Finally, an end to Bush’s bullshit SOFA A little over three years ago I wrote my first post on the 2008 Status Of  Forces Agreement (SOFA) entered into  between the George W. Bush Administration and the government of Iraq. (For that and the subsequent two entries, see “Related Posts” below). Despite the many efforts of both the Bush and Obama administrations to …

Crimes Against The Planet

The World of the Cross   •   Terry Kruger Urantia is the sentimental shrine of all Nebadon, the chief of ten million inhabited worlds… So why is BP allowed to continue to despoil our beautiful planet?  A convicted corporate felon, for decades it has demonstrated a reckless disregard for all life, from the top of the food chain to the …

Great Moments In Douchebaggery

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Rape-Nuts www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview Senator Jeff Sessions and 29 other Rethugs vote for gang rape Whoring for the defense industry has just sunk to a new low. WTF is wrong with these people?

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 …