World Fail 101

Intractable international problems continually and increasingly reveal how ineffective— and unethical— it is for any single nation, like the United States, to assume the mantle of “World Sheriff.”

Gulf Ecocide Update

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…

Terror Babies & Moo Goo Dog Pan

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Jon Stewart & Anderson Cooper Look at Gaping Holes – Security<a> www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Jon Stewart opened his show last night featuring clips of Rep. Louis Gohmert (Wingnut-TX) railing on about terror babies, Chinese plots to feed us our pets, bestiality, necrophilia, …

Pandering To Radicals (Update)

Newtie panders to the radical right by growing another right hand In the histrionic debate over whether a group of Sufi Muslims can or should build a community center with a prayer room a couple of blocks from Ground Zero, President Obama’s articulation of their constitutionally guaranteed right to do so over the weekend has got Newtie Gingrich‘s panties in …

When The Fat Roils

To be sure, there are a lot of fat-cat politicians, on both sides of the political aisle. And you can safely bet most of them aren’t able to think any better than they actually eat. Newton Leroy Gingrich is a great example of what I mean.

Afutilestan VIII

Rep. Alan Grayson introducing his War Is Making You Poor Act on the House floor As we look back to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on. Afghanistan, in its ninth year, is already the longest war in US History and Iraq, at seven years, is not far behind. On May 21, …

Sometimes You’re The Windshield, Sometimes You’re The Bug

A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …