Category: Anger

NIGHTmares IN WHITE SATIN

Imagine waking up reeking with sweat, trembling, and screaming, because you just saw First Princess Carrie Prejean leering at you over the chubby shoulder of President-Queen-elect Sarah Palin, while Mittens Romney, Second Princess, in full evening gown drag with magic undies ridin’ high, fawns over her other shoulder… and that roaring chainsaw sound permeating this paralyzing visage? It’s none other than the First Dude’s ATV, riding roughshod over Michelle and the kids’ vegetable garden…

Real Bad Men Wear Stripes (Updated)

Seantor David Vitter’s “compassion” for this victim of rape lasted nearly 30 seconds, when he started talking over her; it was 64 seconds before he scapegoated President Obama; and a full minute and 12 seconds before he tucked his prehensile appendage between his legs and slithered toward the door.

It’s Not Racism When THEY Do it

Late last week, Democratic-leaning pollster Stan Greenberg released a focus group study showing that conservative GOP base voters live in an alternative universe of their own political paranoia. In this world, President Obama is ruthlessly advancing a secret agenda to ruin — yes, ruin — the economy so he can impose socialism upon the United States and destroy the core civil liberties of American democracy. And in this covert crusade, Obama is no more than a frontman for unseen interests aiming to annihilate the United States.

Rethuglican Semiotics

Signing betrayal, anti-patriotism, denial, and racism semiotics, n.  also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols, both individually and grouped into sign systems. It includes the study of how meaning is constructed and understood. James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Karl Agne of Democracy Corps did a study of …

Oh Snap! You’re all Gonna Die! Says Health Insurance Dicks Of Death

AHIP/CEOs swear they will kill every last one of us if they don’t get their way. Ezra Klein In the early-’90s, the tobacco industry commissioned PWC to estimate the economic devastation that would result from a tax on tobacco. The report was later analyzed by the Arthur Andersen Economic Consulting group, which concluded that “the cumulative effect of PW’s methods …

Apple Shoes

Louis Black, after a good nap. BOULDER — Louis Black was in Boulder last night, chatting up the locals. He looked and sounded a little tired of it all, you know— having to tell jokes about all the adult children who are happy to continue shitting on the levers of capitalism until their butt skin is raw— and made the …

The Scattered Brotherhood

Lift Your Spirit IN THESE TIMES you cannot afford to meet the shock of life with emotion; you cannot hate, you cannot fear.  The evil that you see has always been here;  the ignorance is not for you to judge, nor should you respond to it even in the sense of so-called righteous indignation.  We have tried to teach you …