What Goes Around…

March 29, 2010

In the aftermath of congress passing it’s highly embattled health care overhaul bill, some representatives have been making allegations that angry mobs of protesters have been spitting on them as well as shouting racist and homophobic invectives. Rep. Andre Carson claimed that a mob to Tea Party protesters shouted the dreaded “N” word at least [...]

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Sound and Fury

March 23, 2010

“Life is but a walking shadow, a poor playerthat struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5 In the wake of the unprecedented passage of the hotly disputed health [...]

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Let It Burn

March 5, 2010

I spend a lot of time on the internet. Being a cubicle slave for 40 hours a week at an undisclosed location affords me a lot of time to read other blogs and even their comments sections. At this one blog in particular a right-wing republican blogger was railing against the reconciliation process being employed [...]

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A Modest Proposal

March 4, 2010

I don’t like this game anymore. photo credit: alancleaver_2000 I’m never one to assert that an overly simplistic and idealistic course of action will solve all the world’s woes and create a utopia. As a matter of fact, the oversimplification of the problem/solution relationship is oftentimes the primary reason libertarianism is regarded with a great [...]

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Translating Politics

February 22, 2010

Have you ever watched an elected official or someone seeking public office make a speech and realized that he or she is not speaking the same language that you or I would typically use? Everything he or she might say appears to be laced with highly euphemistic vocabulary that seems to have been cooked up [...]

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Pat Robertson’s Greatest Hits

January 15, 2010

American President Abraham Lincoln was once quoted as saying “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” Televangelist Pat Robertson has made a long and shockingly successful career out of removing all doubt almost every time he opens his mouth. In the aftermath of the huge [...]

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Hooray for Our Side

January 13, 2010

Recently it has come to the attention of those who follow politics that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said some things about President Obama that could be construed as racist. During the presidential campaign Reid was quoted as saying that Mr. Obama is “light skinned” with no “negro dialect.” The blogspere on the right of [...]

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Yes, we’re fucking serious, you ignorant fucking….

November 13, 2009

(Deep breath.) photo credit: Renegade98 The quality of our representatives says a lot about what’s going on.  Just compare approval ratings to incumbency, then wait for your fucking head to explode.  It boggles the mind how we as a country consistently put our most corrupt and inept forward.  I say “we” because we are all [...]

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Political Correctness Gone Wild

November 9, 2009

This last Thursday there was an incident which occurred at the U.S. Army base of Fort Hood in Texas. A lone gunman went on a rampage killing 13 and wounding 42. The gunman was an Army psychologist named Maj.Nidal Malik Hasan. During the shooting the Major was heard by witnesses as shouting “Allah Ackhbar” which [...]

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The Mind of a Marxist

October 15, 2009

Yesterday I was reading the politics section of Craigslist in my home town to pass the time and there seemed to be a lot of “America: Love it or Leave it” kind of posts. To stir the pot a little I added my own post which I copied from this site to the discussion. Now [...]

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