A Nation of Cowards with a Military to Match
I hope that’s a headline that makes most of you angry, because if it does that to enough of you, maybe, just maybe we can reverse the trend. I don’t know how long the taint of cowardice has been
Category: Social Commentary
Save the IRS
Much like the media and right wing outcry over the attack on Benghazi really has nothing to do with Americans getting killed and everything to do with a political attack on the White House. So does the attack on the
The Real War
Read an article by Carl Gibson the other day in which he states that we must set aside our divisive issues, like gun control and abortion, because they are only hypes that keep us divided and keep the real issue,
America is Bleeding
I leaf through the papers and news magazines, I flip the news channels on the TV and I click through the political and governmental blogs on my computer and more and more I see the overwhelming evidence that we as
The U.S. Chamber Pot
Who are the real Americans? Are they the men who comprise the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the organization that lobbied against the 2009 safety regulations for places like the fertilizer plant in Texas that just blew up? They call themselves
Civil Wrongs
Everyone keeps talking about how we have to be able to sit down and talk intelligently with each other if we’re ever going to get this country back on track and that sure sounds like a great idea but what
The Self-Destruction of the 1%
Why is it that moist of the richest people in this country spend so much of their time and resources holding down the middle class and exterminating the poor. For some unimagined reason, the rich, or at least most
Bits & Pieces #34
Most of the talking heads spent all Sunday morning yapping about what did or didn’t happen with the two Boston Bombers, who knew what and who didn’t, what the FBI had done with the info they were supposed to have
The Saints of Oak Ridge
Tomorrow morning, April 7th in Knoxville, Tennessee three people will go on trial for demonstrating to the American public what a bunch of incompetent assholes the Department of Energy has amassed under its banner. The trio faces 20 years in jail. A
Bits & Pieces #33
Dick Cheney was back on the tube last week, proving that some people are too stupid to know when to keep their mouths shut. Cheney is unbelievably lucky he’s not in jail right now but he has no concept of that.