Tim Pawlenty says he doesn’t care what anyone thinks, he’s a patriot. Unless you don’t like patriots, then he’s not one. People who walk their dog are the city version of sunday drivers, except an old lady’s Buick never tries to bite my ankles when I pass it. Best Part of American freedom: Fireworks. Worst…
Category: Thursday
Larger Editorial: Glenn Beck’s Final Show, So Long Shit Bag
Today, we have a special treat…if you count water boarding as a treat. I will be watching Glenn Beck’s final show, the first I’ve seen from start to finish. Minute 1: Beck is outside the New York City studio his show is filmed at. Okay, I can do this. I’ve got a Snapple and an…
Petty Issues
While watching the fourth season premiere of True Blood I found myself saying “What the fuck am I watching?” and not in a good way. Fairies chasing people in the desert while shooting white bursts of lightening, Jason leading a cult of diseased looking children, Tara as a lesbian? At a certain point, it tips…
Larger Editorial: Why Herman Cain is the Scariest GOP Candidate
I know that in a week dedicated to immigration and race issues, it might not be the smartest idea to single out the one black candidate Republicans have running for President as the scariest. Rest assured, it has nothing to do with his race, and unlike when Republicans say they don’t hate Obama because he’s…
Petty Issues
I want to see Ron Paul’s birth certificate. I’m pretty sure he killed my great, great grandfather at the Battle of Gettysburg. For a party of homophobes, Republicans sure are gay for Ronald Reagan. They quote him constantly and try to predict what he would or wouldn’t like he’s some messianic figure worth slavish devotion….
GOP’s Attack On Teachers Will Discourage People From Becoming Teachers
Repeatedly, we’ve been told that “Obamacare” will discourage sharp, motivated professionals from becoming doctors. That even though it makes no mention of capping the salary a doctor can make, young people will be so dismayed at any type of regulation to the health insurance market they won’t want to go to school to become one…
Petty Issues: Republican Debate Edition
After watching the Republican debate, a few thoughts… 5. This is the party of has beens, only two of the seven candidates on stage are currently in government, and it’s laughing stock candidates Ron Paul and Michelle Bachmann 4. John Huntsman should save his money and not run. When Republicans say they want more variety…
We Can’t Keep Losing Our Top Anti-Corporate Voices to Sex Scandals
Below this feature Now What? did an excellent job of pointing out how strange this whole Weinergate saga is, but I’m a little interested in the uniqueness of it and a lot more interested in the “Who cares about it all?” aspect of it. Most importantly, we’re a little worried this is going to cause…
Petty Issues
Before seeing Lady Gaga on 60 Minutes, I didn’t really like her that much…and now I’m certain I don’t. This is reason 11466 that young women don’t have any good role models in a media landscape of fame whores and teen moms turned reality stars. The best role models out there are international women (like…
Larger Editorial: Why Republicans are the Pyramid Scheme Party
In an item I ran on Sunday I said social conservatives (the majority of the Republican Party by far) need to wake up to being used by fiscal conservatives (the small minority of the party that actually runs it). And I’d like to continue on that thread now. After all, when social conservatives have been…
Larger Editorial: Republicans, Why Self-Hating Governments Can’t Be Effective
“Republicans have a great gambit. They run on the promise that government is ineffective and then they get in there and prove it”–Bill Maher Republicans hate government. They hate the regulations it imposes. They hate the taxes it draws to keep the country running. If you’re Ron Paul, you even hate that government forces you…
Petty Issues
It’s weird that so many look forward to The Rapture they miss the very real man made armageddon of Climate Crisis, currently shredding through the red states in the form of tornadoes. This weekend will officially make me 25, the same age as Lady Gaga (who could pass for an easy 40, when I saw…
Larger Editorial: Defending Teacher Unions, the Most Misunderstood Organization in America
Blaming teacher unions for what’s wrong with public education is like blaming the coal miner’s union for the pollution a coal company causes. But yet, in everything from the worthless documentary Waiting for Superman—which faked an interest in probing what’s wrong with public education before taking the easy way out in blaming education unions—to the…