Where Are The Leaders?

The old saw, “Every nation has the government it deserves” is nowhere more visibly apparent today than in the United States of America.

Palin’s Strange Teabagger Brew

I admit I just didn’t have the stomach to watch Sarah Baracuda‘s speech to the Teabaggers last night. But from what I’ve gleaned from various commentators is that she struck to two basic themes: national security and the Obama Administration’s Keynesian attempts to salvage the US economy by spending (and lending) lots of money. Naturally, these are the main Rethug themes going …

The War On Empathy (Update 1)

Having failed in their previous wars—the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on anything not right wing crazy, the Rethugs have launched a new one—the war on empathy.