Here Comes the Night
The latest prediction for Judgment Day is on May 21, this year. And the end of the world on October 21. Of course there have been failed predictions of this kind before. Augury ain't easy, as they...
View ArticleGOP Full Employment Plan Revealed
Greed undoes some thieves—it gets them to go for that one last score. They start thinking the reason they haven’t been caught yet is because they are...uncatchable! Sometimes it happens. That gives...
View Article"They did Pearl Harbor," says WNBA player
What kind of religious education could possibly encourage a person to describe herself as a “very spiritual person” and also utter such low viciousness as Cappie Pondexter, captain of the WNBA’s New...
View ArticleWe told you they were coming for you
But you kept on being oh, so polite. Oh, so measured. Oh, so fair, and balanced.We said, "Look out, NPR, they'll come for you some day."Like they came for ACORN. Remember? You didn’t speak out....
View ArticleI wish we WOULD privatize Social Security
Having made the argument against privatizing pensions many times, I know how it goes:• Private entities will set up pensions as giant ATMs, charging transaction fees, wetting their beaks at every...
View ArticleWoo-Hooo!!!! Er, maybe.
Casey Stengel used to say the key to managing a baseball team was keeping the guys who hate you away from the ones who haven’t made up their mind yet. It's the key to elections, too.I am frankly...
View ArticleHey, Suckers!
Poker players warn that if you don’t know who the pigeon is at the table, it’s you. And all those reassuring statements from our elected representatives regarding the budget “deal,” sure sound a...
View ArticleShut up, they explained
You keep hearing how the take home lesson of the 2010 elections was, The American Public Has Spoken. And just what did the public say? Just this, according to the authorized translation: We don't...
View ArticleYour end of the boat is sinking
On the surface, leftward carping at the president seems out of proportion. Sure, the Republicans have squeezed too many concessions out of him. But the man is hardly George Bush. Let alone Barack...
View ArticleThe Con, Still On, Goes International
Man, you gotta hand it to these guys. The Real Big Money Boys. As Michele Bachmann said—they got the shootzpah. The con they’ve been running for the last twenty, thirty years on us little...
View ArticleStop making sense of Occupy
What is it about the Very Serious People that gets them so worked up by Occupy that they can’t think or talk straight? Watching them try to get a handle on The Great Occupy reminds you of someone...
View ArticleCongratulations Mayor Bloomberg! You too, Mayor Quan!
Congratulations, Mayors Bloomberg and Quan, city powers of Chapel Hill and Portland. You panicked in the face of change. And doing so, you rent holes in the veil of ‘respectability’ and ‘order’...
View ArticleBanksters warn Massachusetts: don't screw with our racket
Today mortgage lender GMAC pulled a gun and aimed it at the head of Massachusetts. Because yesterday, the state’s AG filed suit against it and four other banks’ illegal mortgage practices. In...
View ArticleBreak up the Corporations!
Democracy.--A 2,500 year-old word without a settled definition. The word is oddly autological, in that democracy is admirable partly for a stubborn unwillingness to declare matters once and for all...
View ArticleThe first rate intelligence of the GOP
Conundrums:F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”From...
View ArticleO'Reilly says kids playing football should have to pay for their own safety
Bill O'Reilly proved beyond any question the depth of his intellect this evening. In the light of the firestorm beginning to swell over Rush Limbaugh's assault on women, O'Reilly complained that...
View ArticleNRA's defense of Trayvon Martin
<chirping>But why so quiet, NRA?Unless the law you championed in Florida promoting deadly force in cases of "self defense" is differential. Depending on who's involved in the deadly force. Back...
View ArticleSo long, Buster, RIP
The B, hard at work. We saw Buster on his way today. I can barely type the letters to make the words that say so. Storms of grief, followed by stretches of misted calm, take me without my leave....
View ArticleWho's shrugging now?
We’re only two years shy of the 60th birthday of the publication of Atlas Shrugged. My, how time flies. And how we are reminded that its flight is circular. For even though plain good sense provides...
View ArticleHackers try to manipulate markets
The latest from the two–separate-worlds file:A crime was committed against the Stock Market recently. And, say authorities, we won’t have it: U.S. authorities charged 32 defendants on Tuesday with...
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