A New James Bond

Oh, Oh 7 ready to kick some imperialist ass Juan Cole has a great review of the new Bond movie, A Quantum of Solace, on his blog yesterday titled “A Quantum of Anti-Imperialism.” The movie’s plot involves the attempted regime change of a populist Bolivian president (a thinly disguised Evo Morales) who is unwilling to turn his country’s oil and …

Limbaugh Goes To Hell

Chicken wingnut “Grand Pusbot” Rush Limpbaugh, in full wingnut regalia, photo-opped with the Satan Twins and their twin cats, Baal, and Chain, during his recent trip to Hell.

Coming Home

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcvmoGjGNc[/youtube] Joseph A. Violante: We’ve heard a good deal recently about the 18 percent of men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression, according to an authoritative RAND Corporation study. Another 19 percent are estimated of having experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by improvised explosive devices that “rattle” …

Scarborough Drops The F-Bomb

“My wife is going to kill me” Joe Scarborough, the conservative host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, was describing Barack Obama‘s new Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel‘s bedside manor this morning and shocked his fellow bobble heads by describing him as routinely flipping people off and saying “Fuck you.” Oops. No doubt the Bushies will delight in handing the commies at …

American Fascism

Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann R-MN, has spelled out some cogent advice for all Americans to consider: “What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look. I wish they would. I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out if they …

Bailout: Putting Lipstick On A Pig In A Poke

The way to feed rabbits is to feed hay to horses. A lovely little adage better known as trickle down economics. Unfortunately, it also describes even the modified bailout plan promoted by congressional Democrats, a plan that has no guarantee of ever working nor limits on the eventual cost. Instead of a top down approach,  a bottom up strategy that …

Who Does She Remind You Of? UPDATED

“And as our leaders are telling us, in our military, we do need to, ramp it up in Afghanistan, counting on our friends and allies to assist with us there, becuzz these terrists— who hate Amirrica, they hate what we stand for, with the… the freedoms, the democracy, the the women’s rights, the tolerince, they hate what it is that we represent, and, our allies, too, and our friends, what they represent.” Sigh.