To all post-imperial Europeans, and across-the-ponders who find America’s public rejoicing over an intentional killing a bit “unsavory”, first know that I’m more than a little…. uneasy about people hooting in the streets in flag suits, too. Nothing good has ever come of the “USA!” chant, and folks waving flags are like some of […]
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The Soapbox: Politics and Rants
I’ve talked about Big Evil before. It’s like the more famous Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, but not as romantic as smokes and Lunesta. Big Evil is more insidious because it’s banal. It’s rooted in the faulty organization of people, not necessarily the overwhelming individual badness of the people: the war profiteers, the […]
“A Rising Star in the Republican Party”. What the fuck does that even mean? Here’s a small smattering of those GOP “rising stars” (i.e. the MOST promising, the creme de la creme, the BEST WE GOT). Each of these fine folks was – at time or another – proclaimed to be a “Rising Star in the […]
I find the UK’s frenzied, orgasmic media circle-jerk leading up to the royal wedding seductive and annihilating in equal measure. Despite the outward banality of the couple, and the bourgeois nature of the monarchy, I like the royal family. Despite the obvious moral repugnance of a “monarchy” in the 21st century, its odious paradigm, and […]
Home from work on a mental health day, I’m having the misfortune of seeing Indiana US Representative/Silverback Gorilla Mike Pence hooting about the paltry ($6 billion) budget impasse that they will SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT OVER. The House GOP – made up of litters of like-minded chimps elected last fall via Tea Party support – is […]
Scott Walker, Wisconsin Governor/hypocrite/shit for brains/champion of the rights of teachers? In making his case for The budget-repair bill, which would strip most collective-bargaining rights from 175,000 public-sector workers while imposing immediate benefits concessions, Walker sought to highlight the plight of a one such teacher. Megan Sampson was named an Outstanding First Year Teacher in 2010, […]
Post Secession Texas Oh say can you see an America without Texas? Yes. I think I can! The Texas Nationalist Movement marked Texas Independence Day with a rally on Saturday at the Capitol urging Texans to save the state by seceding from the United States. It’s sad to think there was once a tradition in Texas […]
I had a debate with a friend over breakfast the other day, where it was concluded that I was narrow-minded and intractable in my blanket hatred of ALL Republicans. “NO,” I said, “there are NO Republicans that I want to talk to ANYMORE”. At some point over the past 10 years – maybe it […]
If you’re looking at percentages, the percentage of white folks in the great state of Kentucky (89.6%), stands about equal to that which they receive in federal support over what they earn. It’s not clear whether the good, white people of Kentucky actually understand to what degree their lives are dependent on federal dollars – […]