The Tipping Point
There was something stirring about watching Bernie Sanders engage in his filibuster— Sanders offered the real thing. Real rhetoric, real passion, real indignation. And the truth.
HAPPY TALK
Having taken the first step along the path of compromise and least resistance… It requires a great and noble character, having started out wrong, to turn about and go right. All too often one’s own mind tends to justify continuance in the path of error when once it is entered upon. —The Urantia Book
Presidents Who Love Too Much
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Unrequited Gov www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election March to Keep Fear Alive A prez with benefits smothered in a fuck you sauce… Watching President Obama try to explain his capitulation to the Rethugs over taxes and unemployment insurance reminded me of a book I read about …
Won’t Get Fooled Again
At a time of national desperation– the economy teetering on the brink of another Great Depression, two runious foreign wars and occupations, a demoralized citizenry who knew in their guts that they were being ripped off by a greedy, shadowy ruling class– we were more than ready for radical change. We needed a courageous general to confront the individuals and …
Obama Caves On Tax Cuts
From the White House Office of Preemptive Capitulation comes news that President Obama has agreed to extend tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires for another two years, despite his numerous pledges not to. (Does anybody really believe that the cuts won’t become permanent the day after they expire, no matter which party controls Congress and the White House after the …
We’re Still Just In It For The Munny
ZAPPADAN TWENTY TEN Yeah it’s already the second day of ZAPPADAN, and we’re off to a slow start, but then the main reason we do ZAPPADAN in the first place is to slow down enough to realize we’re having a good time. First thing you should do on ZAPPADAN is reminisce about last year’s awesome ZAPPADAN, and you can do …
