We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident (Update)

Democrats settle into the job they know best Dems never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity (see, e.g., healthcare). Rethugs never miss an opportunity to bully Dems into missing an opportunity. And the circle of life goes merily along… UPDATE: Apology to House Dems: While the Senate has cowered from the debate over a public option in the face …

MONKEY MAG

There are only two ways we mortal bipeds can live together: the material, or animal way, and the spiritual, or human way. FEAR is the powerful and dominant animal vestige of our animal origin heritage. When humans fail to discriminate the ends of their mortal striving, they find themselves functioning on the animal level of existence. (See Limpbot, Hannity, etc. )

Single Payer: A Medical Insurgence Policy (Update 1)

Truth in advertising from the Medical Industrial Complex Bob Cesca at HuffPo, in his post The Health Insurance Mafia Deserves a Good Screwing recounts his personal experience of losing his family’s medical insurance after his provider, without cause, raised their premium threefold overnight;  and makes the case for a public option. Atul Gawande of The New Yorker provides a clue …

Racist Monkeys

It’s National Monkey Week, a few special days each year when we take our Homo Sapeins ego a little less seriously by contemplating our humble hairy origins as Primates.

STOOPID MONKEES!

“He who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, nor what the world is.” As observations go, that one is still completely kicking our asses.

False Equivalency

Tweety during his silver tongued false equivalency rant On his Hardball show  yesterday, Chris Matthews did a segment called The Hate Machine about the dog whistle relationship between right wing extremists and their “conservative” enablers in the media. Though he didn’t mention the inciters by name, I will– O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, and Beck being just the most prominent hate …

Glimpsed Along The Road

Riding shotgun gave me time to let the road movie play. . . Sometimes you can sense which drivers are going to look your way as you pass them… Like the Limbaugh look-alike in a Liz Cheney wig…