This really isn’t about Joe. Joe is only the most recent and egregious example and one of many elected creatures from the black lagoon, that especially fetid, artificial pool of accumulated amoral political effluent polluting our political system. Creatures without principles who don’t care who knows it.
Another jaw-dropper week in Teh Crazy as we hunker down for the August recess/hyperbolic frenzy of the continuing implosion of the Rethuglicans. Read it and weep. Or cling to your religion and guns. Whatever blows your skirt up. I have alcohol to consume.
It’s National Monkey Week, a few special days each year when we take our Homo Sapeins ego a little less seriously by contemplating our humble hairy origins as Primates.
It’s time to excise the cancer for the American body politic known as Bush-Cheney Administration. When both Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and former Grand Inquisitor Darth Cheney agree that critical documents be declassified about how torture was used during the previous eight years, you know the worm has turned. In other words, it’s time for a truth commission. …
Or so the Rethugs would have you believe. Obama hasn’t even compiled a list of nominees to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Souter yet, let alone chosen someone to replace him. Doesn’t matter, though. On Wingnut Island, the die has been cast. [Image from photobucket.com] UPDATE: Here’s what Orrin Hatch had to say on This Week: Well, it’s a matter …
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Obama Denies Habeas Corpus colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest In a pretty sharp attack against the Obama Administration’s apparent shell game of shutting down GITMO only to outsource its constitutional problems to Bagram AFB in Afghanistan, Stephen Colbert does his faux mentor Bill “Papa Bear” O’Reilly …
Right wing fear monger, genus glennusbekasaurus Anger is like a stone thrown into a hornet’s nest. —The Urantia Book Anger interrupts the functioning of your frontal lobes. Not only do you lose the ability to be rational, you lose the awareness that you’re acting in an irrational way. When your frontal lobes shut down, it’s impossible to listen to another …
