The South has risen again, alright. Only this time it’s after it has fatted itself for a hundred and fifty years on an imperfect but evolving democracy, waiting until it looked like the godly...
A Neo-Confederacy of Dunces
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Author - Steven Weber
CSA 2.0
It would be hard to look at the swath the GOP is trying to cut through the decades of culturally identifiable social legislation without using descriptions evoking a particular past. In fact, the...
Impossible Truths
by While it's been a struggle hiding my disappointment in regards to our duly elected president not effectively vanquishing the insane and invasive Right Wing to the dank fringes from whence it...
Baby Goes “Waahhh!!!”
By It makes perfect sense that the party of "No!", the party that embraces fairy tale creation myths, the party that bullies, provokes and lies, the party that has no idea that they themselves will...
Name Calling
By What do you call an organization which regularly resorts to lies, exaggerations, obfuscations, intimidation, distraction and bullying to disseminate and implement its agenda? You call it the...
Dispassionate Conservatism
by The most revealing glimpse last week's Arizona nightmare afforded was not another account of the American character which continues to fetishize the very guns destroying it, but a chance to view...
Listen to the Mocking Bird
by In my frequently and mostly profane Twitterings, I occasionally lapse into a fevered Leftist rant about whatever happens to be crawling beneath my skin and depositing its eggs there. I say...
Elizabeth Edwards: A Lesson
by The passing of Elizabeth Edwards is tragic and, in the context of recent events involving the excruciatingly public scandal involving her ex-husband, meaningful. But it is not monumental. It is...
Wingnut Thought for the Day
by "If every radical Christian burned a Koran, maybe it would make us less dependent on foreign oil."
Burned
by Okay, here's a heavy-handed analogy, followed by a brief quiz: So, some guys burn a house down. Then they walk away. Another guy comes along, sees the charred remains and wants to rebuild. He...
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Emasculation Nation
by BP has America by the balls. After years of video games and twenty-four-hour-a-day infotainment memes shortening attention spans to the same length of the switchback cuts of an MTV video (remember...
Random Thoughts (for those who can’t be f*cked to sign onto Twitter®) #2
By Plan D: BP planning to plug hole in the gulf with copies of Atlas Shrugged.
9/11 O/IL
by What do all of these events have in common: An icon of American financial supremacy brought down in a dazzling daylight display of blowback. A global economy brought to its knees by the results of...
Blood Will Out
By I don't blame my president. He is what he was forced to be. Obama was saddled with more toxic baggage than any of his predecessors and from the beginning his lily white haters laughed at the black...
Random Thoughts (for those who can’t be f*cked to sign onto Twitter®)
by "Wait! Ever notice that the color of the oil destroying the Gulf coast, wildlife and livelihoods is the same tone as John Boehner's skin???"
Regulate? Then, Never!
by Watch, as the folks who decry governmental regulation---the self-described libertarians who either knowingly or unknowingly shill for the big-ass corporations, those Supreme Court protected...
A Nanny State of Mind
by Religion. It describes the creation of the universe, the creation of humankind, the creation of a moral creed. But what it really describes is the creation of the ultimate nanny state---a nanny...
‘Night, Court
by Can anybody tell me why, when it comes to accused terrorists, military tribunals are preferable to normal judicial proceedings in a civil court of law? Is it because they don't want those fancy...