Whenever I find myself holding hands with political Pollyannas, and someone foolishly yells “Red Rover Red Rover, send Chris Hedges right over,” I cringe, close my eyes, and wait for the impact of the Tasmanian Devil himself. Seriously, this guy’s columns should come with a warning label: “Not to be read by anyone displaying signs of clinical depression or …
Rethug dogs wag the Administration’s tail Larry Beinhart, author of the one of the most revealing and prescient political movies evah, Wag the Dog, compares the renewal of the Bush tax cuts with: …driving your car off the cliff, paying a tow truck twice the price of the car to haul it back up, then driving it back over because …
Why do I get the feeling that this guy is juggling hatchets inside his head?
Aping the Teabaggers, the Rethugs wrap themselves in the flag and promote their party as the defenders of the Constitution. And just when you thought they couldn’t sink any lower, they roll out the above ad to Hispanic voters encouraging them to ignore their most primary constitutional responsibility– the right and duty to vote. (For the Spanish version, see here.) …
The new appropriately named DNC ad: “Stealing Democracy” Over a year ago in a post titled Soylent Green And Corporations Are People Too, I warned about the implications for our democracy if the corporatist dominated US Supreme Court ruled the way I expected them too in the Citizens United case. And when they ruling came down last January, in A …
The short answer is that the common ancestor to both humans and monkeys went extinct millions of years ago, after which monkeys and humans went their separate evolutionary ways. But the more pressing question is: How come humans are devolving into complete idiots like Christine O’Donnell? Next thing you know she’ll be warning us about animal human hybrids, like putting …
