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…
Category: Economy
Colbert Storms The Hill
Political satire has a long and effective history of highlighting important social and political issues, going back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Contemporary satire has taken many forms, from political cartoonists like the late Paul Conrad; the sixties Yippies throwing burning cash from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, performance art that …
The Perils Of HypoChrissy
We can hope, can’t we? Yes we can. For all her crazy talk, Christine O’Donnell has finally managed to talk her way into becoming a nominee for senator in Delaware, running as a member of the Republican Party. Despite canceling appearances on the teevee talking head circuit this morning, early observations are that she can talk the talk; as for …
Can I Do It ‘Till I Need Glasses?
Wow, you know the Teabagger crazy train has really run off the rails when Karl Rove gets in a fight with Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh over his dissing of their party’s candidate for a critical senate seat. Rove told a devastated Hannity, who has been singing senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell‘s praises, that she doesn’t evidence basic character traits like “rectitude, …
Afutilestan (IX) XI
On the ninth anniversary of 9/11 (the day that America became unhinged and ushered in a lucrative national security state), we remember the innocent victims and the heroes who lost their lives trying to save them and others. Seven thousand miles away, a hundred thousand American troops and another hundred thousand plus private contractors and NATO troops are supposedly fighting …
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 …
