POLITICAL PLAYTHINGS

In free enterprise America, you can go shopping for and purchase an angry mob. I don’t mean just a few “action figures,” either.

RAND PAUL: UNPLUGGED & UNHINGED

Why do I get the feeling that this guy is juggling hatchets inside his head?

Exposing The U.S. Chamber Of Foreign Commerce

The new appropriately named DNC ad: “Stealing Democracy” Over a year ago in a post titled Soylent Green And Corporations Are People Too, I warned about the implications for our democracy if the corporatist dominated US Supreme Court ruled the way I expected them too in the Citizens United case. And when they ruling came down last January, in A …

Pirate Cap’n Rupert Sets Course For Hell

If you are earning more than a million dollars a year and are complaining about a 3.6% tax increase, then you are by definition, a greedy asshole…

Koch Suckers

Proving that while intelligence may be limited, stupidity is not Getting people to consistently vote against their own self-interest is one of the more fascinating dimensions of American politics, a triumph of modern propaganda technique. You’d think that people who can barely survive on low paying, non-union jobs and have no health insurance for themselves or their families would support …