Money vs Democracy
If it weren’t already blatantly clear, the result of the vote in Wisconsin is a perfect example of why we have to get big money out of the electoral process before it turns our country into a third world dictatorship. There are
Getting Democracy Back
I was reading an article by Matt Taibbi today that dealt with the recovery of some of the millions of underwater mortgage properties that currently exist in our blighted country. His solution was interesting but he kept leavening it with the argument
GOP Lies and the War for Wisconsin
The President stated, a while back, that the private sector was doing okay and that caused the expected eruption of vilification from the right, but if you really look at the statement, it was more accurate than anything the Republican’s have said
Bits & Pieces #23
Quote of the month from Mat Taibi: “Romney can’t even be mean with any honesty. Even when he’s pandering to viciousness, ignorance and racism, it comes out like scaly calculation.” *** People keep asking me why I started writing this blog and
Vulture capital At Its Best
Rick Perry, quite possibly the dumbest man ever to make a serious run at the Republican nomination finally got something right a while back, when he called Mitt Romney’s company, Bain Vulture Capital. This got David Brooks, one of my favorite Republican
Now We Got It, How Do We Fix It?
Well, the Court ruled and now everyone has to live with it, everyone except the Teabaggers and the far right. They’re still, hanging onto their anger, jumping up and down, whining like spoiled little brats and trying for the 33rd time to
How Obama Can Win
In a political climate where the public is angry and basically uninformed, the President is trying to get re-elected in the face of heavily funded attack ads that have already proven, to be full of lies and half-truths; ads that falsely state
Understanding the Enemy
I keep reading articles about how liberals don’t understand conservatives but it works both ways. If conservatives truly understood liberals they would find it ridiculously easy to drive them crazy. Let me play out a little scenario. George Lucas, one of our
Separate the Banks
As everyone knows who reads this blog, I have never held back on attacks against Jamie Dimon, head of JPMorgan Chase. In truth I have been very vocal in my condemnation of him and his compatriots as major causes of the funk
Nuclear Damage
I have always been one of the most ardent backers of nuclear energy. I was one of the many to point out that the entire human damage done throughout the world by Chernobyl from the time of the accident, until now, did