Watching the likes of Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich these days, I feel like I’ve been ‘ported to The Twilight Zone. In the classic intro to the original Rod Serling series, the shattering window pane is the Overton Window of radical right wing craziness, pushed off the edge of the …
Last week ABC premiered a new one hour sci-fi drama series called Fast Forward. The premise involves a mysterious worldwide 2 minute 17 second long blackout. People driving automobiles, flying in airplanes, or undergoing shock therapy to remove all traces of Glenn Beck shows from their neural circuitry, die. The survivors awake with the ability to see their individual futures exactly 6 months in the future.
Geithner & Summers manning the oars after Bush decided to empty the boat’s bilges by drilling a hole in its bottom Bush sinks the economic ship of state. Obama launches the life rafts, piloted by Wall Street insiders Timmeh Geithner and Larry Summers. But the sharks (hedge funds, private equity firms) are circling and there’s lots of stormy weather ahead. …
Friday The Thirteenth Has Forever Been Redefined WASHINGTON—Properly safeguarding the illusion of democracy is “job one” at Diebold, but nobody’s perfect. Our shadowy Overlords are occasionally exposed to the blinding light of reality when their computers hiccup, today revealing a McCain victory in November’s presidential election more than four months ahead of schedule. Not to worry. Television Networks, ever sensitive …
