Last week I spent most items defending President Obama, but now it’s time to ask the flip side of that question: Is he worth it? By worth it, I mean is the entire Democrat Party worth compromising for this one man? Far right wing conservatives (i.e. racists) hate him with every fiber in their body….
Category: Thursday
Larger Editorial: Why Climate Crisis is the New Civil War and Why It’s Worth Fighting
If anyone has ever read a book or seen a TV show based on life in the “contemporary” Southeast, sooner or later The Civil War comes up. It’s as if the writer—who probably “isn’t from around here”—is itching for the moment to work this into the narrative. Even otherwise great books and television series go…
Larger Editorial: Is Reality TV responsible for the Tea Party?
Let me start off by acknowledging that I don’t mean that title literally. I don’t mean to suggest that the creators of the Real Housewives of [Some City You Don’t Live In] were sitting around thinking of faster ways to ruin civilization and decided to create a quasi-racist, definitely ignorant, oxymoronic (they want to lower…
Mitt Romney is Funneling Money to Drug Cartels to Claim Mexico for Mormonism! (Or Why Faux News is so Dangerous)
By now articles about the legendary inaccuracies to stories Faux News reports are almost old hat. Nearly every week, people accuse them of making something up. If it can be proven they did, they ignore it long enough to hope it goes away. If it cannot be proven to a certainty what they reported is…
While Democracy Spreads Throughout the World, It’s Taken Away in the US
It is the best of times to be a democracy. It is the worst of times to be a democracy. All over the world, fledgling democracies are springing up in the place of decades old dictatorships. Tunisia, Egypt, and (any day now) Libya will all be in that exciting new phase of a country where…
Petty Issues Week 5
Charlie Sheen is fired for being a crazy egomaniac with delusions of grandeur…Faux News officially offers him a job. The Adjustment Bureau rides early lead in my “Best Film of 2011” estimation, narrowly beating Big Momma’s House 3 and any movie starring Nicolas Cage by 20 miles. Republikinz wunt 2 defund Peil Gruntz dey mus…
R.I.P “Liberal” Media (or Why the Media Won’t Call Scott Walker a Fascist But Will Call Obama a Socialist)
It’s time to call a time of death on something that may never have existed in the first place: the liberal media. I’m not sure the exact date to put on the tombstone for either birth (of course at one time the media was as doctored and corporatized by big business as it is now) or…
Petty Issues Week 4
And they wonder why America is so fat: You can’t have a commercial with a Dr. Pepper, Doritos, McDonald’s, etc. commercial. When’s the last time you saw a fucking commercial for lettuce? I’ve lost a little weight since the beginning of the year through a diet of spontaneous vomitting after watching John Boehner cry about…
Larger Editorial: Why Jesus Would Support Unions
Partial Caveat: This could easily go into Sunday’s Sermons (and was supposed to originally) but if I wait until Sunday to post it, who knows if unions will even still be around. Plus, this section is where I post something I value every week, and for me the issue of unions is about as close to…
Petty Issues
There is a circle of hell that killers go to, below it is where child rapists go, and below that is where the Bravo executive responsible for the Real Housewives franchise can expect a spot. In Washington Tom Delay traded political favors for money. In prison Tom Delay trades money to keep from giving sexual…
Larger Editorials: Why America is in an Arms Race with Itself
Last week I briefly mentioned that in the ongoing debate about trimming the deficit the one sacred cow the Republican Party seems resistant to cut is the defense budget. This week, I’d like to talk about it a lot more than briefly. Ever since the height of the Cold War, America has become the exact…
Petty Issues Week 2
Joe Biden is the Fredo Corleone of Vice Presidents. If Obama doesn’t ditch him and trade up (I’m looking at the lady who should have been offered the job in 2012, Hillary Clinton) we can look forward to the Dumb and Dumber Presidency of Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin. God I hope The Social Network…
Larger Editorial: Why Old People Should Vote Democrat
In the ongoing debate about what fat we need to cut off our budget in an attempt to reel in our 14 trillion dollar national deficit, a clear distinction emerges between the two parties. The Democrats want to cut the military budget—largest in the world—which is also the government sector most directly responsible for the…