I offer three simple solutions to problems which affect our nation ...
1) Give Fictional characters the same rights as corporations and 'reality-based' humans. Character personhood would open up a whole new area for political recruitment and campaign financing. It would also make it possible to appoint Atticus Finch to the Supreme Court.
2) Starting next month, the bags of money we're giving to the Afghan warlords must come with the provision that they invest at least 48% of that money in the American infrastructure, thus creating jobs he
I hope that all the fine folks that populate this blog community will indulge me for writing about something non-political and not particularly humorous. It is a subject that is close to my heart.
In 1985, I was diagnosed with a chronic degenerative inflammatory disease called Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS). Most likely, you have never heard of it, or, if you have, it’s because you either know someone that has it or you are a Rheumatologist.
John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the history of the world, used to give out dimes to people he would meet. Many of the recipients cherished their "Rockefeller dimes" and kept them as inspiration (read hope), that the magic of his great wealth would somehow, even in just a small way, be transferred to them. So much for wishes.
Today, the super-rich have nearly everything. Their accumulation of wealth boggles the mind. The richest 400 people in this country have more than the combined assets of over half their fellow countrymen.
The old line about "The rich get richer ..." has gone from humorous rejoinder to sadly ironic statement to pathetically cruel redundancy.
So, I believe it's time to respond in the only way the working poor can respond to a situation which is totally out of their control, with defiant sarcasm.
Just when you think they can't find another way to siphon money out of your wallet, some GOPer comes up with a new and even crazier idea. This time, it's 'Catcher's' Mitt Romney. Instead of those poor, put-upon, over-taxed, and overly regulated employers paying into the Unemployment Insurance fund, Mitt wants you, the potentially future unemployed, to pay for your own unemployment insurance!! Just think of how NOT paying all that money into the system will free up corporations and allow them to create more jobs!
"This country was founded on compromise. I couldn't go through the front door of this country's founding. And you know if we were really thinking about ideal positions, we wouldn't have a Union.
... and paraded through the streets of Republican districts, where jeering tea-partiers will pelt it with rotten tomatoes and curse it for "Destroying America" ...
So ... you're wondering why the GOP felt it necessary to whip their followers into such a frenzy for the recent elections, and why they'd go so far as to funnel money from outside groups and foreign entities... Thanks to taking over the House, the repubs now get to control ... GERRYMANDERING next year.
The CEO (Confounding Extrapolists Organization) is issuing a challenge to our fellow Dagbloggers. We believe Tuesday night's results are our permission slip to become 'imagineers', working in the field of political extrapolation.
In other words, we can have the thrill of poking all the Republicans and Tea Partiers with pointed ideological sticks for the next two years.
Cmaukonen's terrific blog "What happened to us?" aka "When did we turn into selfish jerks?", and the great comments that followed it, reminded me of something I started to write almost a year ago.
I had been meaning to post it on TPM, but never did, because, well, I suppose I'm insecure, ok? At least when it comes to this kind of writing.
Tonight's Real Time with Bill Maher show was one of the most infuriating hours I have ever seen on TV. I rarely scream at TV, but I was screaming tonight. Maher's two Conservative panelists, that lying sack of shit Andrew Breitbart, and Amy Holmes, ran roughshod over Bill, Seth McFarland and Carl Sagan's soft-spoken widow, Ann Druyan.
McFarlane and Maher both sat on their duffs, completely willing to let lie after lie go unchallenged, as if they were totally afraid to assert themselves for fear of offending Breitbart and Holmes.
I just read a report about the tea-partiers planning a strike on January 20th, the first anniversary of President Obama becoming President. I was thinking ... it might be a fun counter-offensive to have people on the Left stage a "Don't...
I was wandering the aisles of my local Acme supermarket, the other day, wondering if I'd spot Wyle E. Coyote, when I saw Lou Dobbs. Well, I couldn't restrain myself. I approached him. He was there with an assistant, whose...
