Tag: Tea Party

POLITICAL PLAYTHINGS

In free enterprise America, you can go shopping for and purchase an angry mob. I don’t mean just a few “action figures,” either.

BLAMING SARAH

DOWN IN THE TRENCHES OF THE CULTURE WAR, it’s frequently observed that concepts like nuance, like irony, are subtleties of perception the ignorant neither appreciate or understand.

Not Fit For Human Consumption

Are Americans really dumb enough to swallow anything just because it comes in a familiar package? If you wanna taste the ruse, you must click it. • If men would maintain their freedom, they must, after having chosen their charter of liberty, provide for its wise, intelligent, and fearless interpretation to the end that there may be prevented: 1. Usurpation …

Right Into The Stranger Zone

If you’ve ever wondered why Teabagger and Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle runs from the media even at her own press conferences, this interview with Fux News’ Carl Cameron provides a hint:

Mama Grizzly

What Teabagger males envision when they hear Sarah Palin call herself a “Mama Grizzly” Arianna Huffington has a post today well worth reading. It begins: I’ve been thinking about this paradox: the most important political ad of 2010 so far did not play on television, and came from someone not currently running for any office. It was Sarah Palin‘s latest …

Insanity Sunday: Glenn Beck Explains Satan And Lucifer For Third Graders

“I’m hoping the guy with horns doesn’t actually show up, but he could.” . . . And monkeys in jumpsuits might fly out your butt, too, Glenn.

Declaration Of Independence From BP And Oil

Convicted felon BP holding a gun to the head of the US  economy Today as I was hanging the Stars and Stripes from my front porch, reflecting on the event 234 years ago that precipitated this most national of national holidays, colonial America’s  Declaration of Independence from their English overlords, I was struck by the resonance it has to the …