Knocking On Death’s Door
Although the death scenes in these two well-produced tubes were selected for their cinematic qualities, they can still set the mood for a more serious contemplation of your own mortality. Check’m out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqh2drbzZs&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvtm06DYhBo&feature=related[/youtube] I don’t need to tell you how large the idea of death looms in our collective consciousness, in our daily lives. After all, people are dying …
Send In The Clowns (Update 1)
President Chimpy cries out for help The term “free market” seems to be code for a Darwinian, survival of the fittest FU mentality. The “greed is good” mantram of the Reagan years has, under George W. Bush, gone into overdrive, precipitating a worldwide economic meltdown. Here is what the most incompetent and reviled president in US history had to say …
Limbaugh Goes To Hell
Chicken wingnut “Grand Pusbot” Rush Limpbaugh, in full wingnut regalia, photo-opped with the Satan Twins and their twin cats, Baal, and Chain, during his recent trip to Hell.
Palintology 101
Sarah Palin will never hold national office, nor will any Republican at the presidential level for a long time to come. Why? Because America has uneducated jerks in it but is not a nation of uneducated jerks. The Republicans are done, hoisted on the petard of their own “southern strategy.”
The Divine Miss P: Running With God
Sarah Reagan vies for control of the Republican Party Thanks to the legacy of the failed Bush presidency and the electoral landslide it produced for the Democrats, the Republicans are convening in Miami today to figure out wtf to do next. No doubt returning to the glory days of the Reagan Administration will be a major theme. But not even …
Coming Home
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcvmoGjGNc[/youtube] Joseph A. Violante: We’ve heard a good deal recently about the 18 percent of men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression, according to an authoritative RAND Corporation study. Another 19 percent are estimated of having experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by improvised explosive devices that “rattle” …
