Watch out You might get what you’re after Cool babies Strange but not a stranger I’m an ordinary guy Burning down the house -Talking Heads Yesterday while reading an article in the NY Times titled “Banks Starting to Walk Away on Foreclosures” I was reminded of the movie Fatal Attraction. In the climax of this highly successful “bunny boiler”, Michael …
My worst nightmare: Reincarnation is real and I wake up as a Republican. [Image credit here.]
Still. And always. The first order of business is: knowing who we are; what we are; and why we are all here. If you haven’t really answered these basic questions yet, then you simply don’t know why you even exist— let alone why any other pursuit— twenty-first century literacy, cultural, political, or corporate sanity, pleasure, science, even religion— has …
Michelle Bachmann bravely reporting from behind enemy lines Over the last thirty years, the Ruling Class has funded right wing Republican think tanks to perfect the art of political propaganda. Ronald “the Great Communicator” Reagan was the perfect choice to kick off this new media era. During his acting career, Ronnie use to broadcast fake-live baseball games by reading ticker …
The seemingly always inebriated, chain smoking and perennially tanned Rethuglican House Leader John Boehner (German pronunciation “Boner”) insisted this week on releasing a 19 page, numbers free budget, a supposed alternative to the Democrats’ plan. Reeling from charges that the Rethugs are “the party of no” – no ideas, no ethics, no clue– and despite pleas from less insane party …
In my senior year in high school, I read a book that was published that year (1970) called “Future Shock”, by Alvin Toffler. In it was a graph of human knowledge going back to recorded history. As might be expected, the line was pretty flat for the most part, with slight noticeable upticks during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Industrial …
Buried under a foot and a half of snow will get you wishing and hoping for the warm sunny days of the future. Especially a future with Sarah Palin and some other wingnut candidate of what’s left of the GOP, running against Barack Obama. Not only will it ensure his second term, but the full exploration of her support of …
