I couldn’t really have left Madison without at least making an effort to barge into Scott Walker’s office at the state capitol. Rising like a beacon between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota, the capitol building is absolutely beautiful. The majestic granite structure accenting the Madison skyline was built in 1917 and styled after the council […]
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The Soapbox: Politics and Rants
From MEDIAite by Tommy Christopher, April, 2010: Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Defends Republican Official’s Obama Chimp Email
“Summer Camp” conjures up carefree days, kids freed from the shackles of their parents, swimming in lakes, rowing canoes, hiking, riding nags, weaving friendship bracelets and singing campfire songs while gorging on s’mores and bug juice. Not so at Tampa Liberty Camp – aka Training Camp for a Future Generation of Hippies – where a few unlucky […]
Dear Diary: I was dancing in the woods, with Miss Bonnie Andrews and the other girls. I wished for that witch Goody Sarah to burn in hell… Jacked up on her media-fueled bus tour promoting “Our Proud American Heritage and History” (the purported mission being to help Americans “appreciate the significance of our nation’s historic sites, […]
My cab driver from Philadelphia airport tonight was comically bitching about how NJ Governor Chris Christie – aka Fudgie the Fail Whale – and his wife cruised into town in a brand-new $12.5 million state police helicopter. Hypocrisy One, as we started to refer to it, is the governor’s state-funded personal helicopter, called upon to soar […]
This nation has a sketchy history of dealing with the rights of its workers. Some might say, brutal acts of aggression against American workers have been a cornerstone of our Democracy! Unlike better known bellwethers of the labor movement like the 1911 Triangle Factory fire, and the Writers Guild Strike of 2008, the battle of Blair […]
In TOMORROW’S election, well-funded, well-connected Jewish Democrat Scott Svonkin faces off against poorly-financed Tea Party-ite and acknowledged social conservative, Lydia Gutierrez. You’d think that the race for a vacant seat on the Los Angeles Community College Board on the ballot TOMORROW would be a slam dunk for the standing Svonkin. But, record low voter turnout (In […]
Regarding the dead vs alive and dumping of bodies in seas vs. ceremonial corpse-schlepping debates. Remember what happened when we tried to “bring to justice” that other terrorist, the one who wasn’t Osama bin Laden? Seriously, imagine the GOP fueled brouhaha when “Obama” drags that guy into the U.S. to “face American justice”. Remember what American justice […]