RAND PAUL: UNPLUGGED & UNHINGED

Why do I get the feeling that this guy is juggling hatchets inside his head?

Tempest In A Tea Cup UPDATED

Mr. Lachrymosity is back. . . and he’s still the same shade of frikkin orange.

Stewart’s Sanity Speech, Citizens United, & The Mid-Term Elections

Jon Stewart lays down the predicate for his Restore Sanity speech Criticisms of Jon Stewart’s closing speech at his and Stephen Colbert’s Restore Sanity and/or Fear Rally in D.C. last Saturday are varied. One has it  that he didn’t encourage people to just simply vote. As far as I saw, watching the whole thing on my teevee, the only person …

RESTORE SANITY Post-Rally Reflections

Yeah! I didn’t see a single misspelled word on the hundreds of signs I read today. . .

Pre-Rally Reflections

The Fear is palpable on the National Mall tonight;  the crew rocked the sound check with Steely Dan’s Bodhisattva. Well, at least when we were walking by. WASHINGTON D.C. —  We landed at Dulles in a 35 m.p.h. crosswind.  I know this because the pilot came on and praised his first officer for doing a “heckofa job” landing that bitch. …

Tea Party Brownshirts

Rand Paul supporters stomping a member of Moveon.org For those who have doubts about where this country is heading in the post-Bush era, this video should prove instructive. Thanks to the non-stop demonization of progressive groups like Moveon.org and the Tides Foundation from the likes of Fux News and their allies in right wing radio, scenes like the one captured …

Coming Soon: URANTIAN SOJOURN

Not hot off the presses:  Urantian Sojourn Magazine will debut soon, watch this spot. It’s a back to our roots via the blog thing, and yeah, we’re excited— just not blessed with enough time to getter done a month in advance. The original Urantian Sojourn Magazine was born in the tumultuous summer of 1990, as a satirical-political spear in the …