There exists a certain type of incredibly sleazy male, the kind who has paleolithic attitudes about women that would embarrass the guy filming the Girls-Gone-Wild videos, but who at some point in his education, discovered that he got a complete pass on his repulsive personal antics as long as he Read more…
To all Republicrats: If you look at the insane amount of spending out there, have you considered that this may in part be a result of this? Everyone who talks about reforming government corruption begins and ends at campaign finance reform. It may be worth it to think of how Read more…
Boing-Boing tells us of a lil Canadian think-tank report. The Conference Board of Canada (sounds so official, I trust them already) who’re self-characterized as “the foremost, independent, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada. Objective and non-partisan. We do not lobby for specific interests” (you know they’re independent, they said so.) Read more…
This does not mean the guy does not have issues. May I present, for your consideration, Andrew Mizsak, 28 year old member of the Bedford School Board, who also works as an independent political consultant. Perhaps he’s done consulting for his mom, who serves on the Bedford city council. If Read more…
Apparently, if this post causes you substantial emotional distress, Congress wants to put me in prison. Of course, that’s not how they characterize it. Again, we have more proposed legislation to protect the children. Which begs the question why say this, “with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass or cause Read more…
Remember this post? The law where we essentially banned both the vintage toy secondary market as well as every small toy producer that doesn’t have the resources of Hasbro? I know, instinctively, that the reaction of most readers was probably less “that’s a terrible law that’s a completely unwarranted government Read more…
Funny, I thought we were going to go go after those evil people in the government who were involved in torture. . . I sorta thought closing Guantanamo was real high on the priority list. . . And Iraq was a bad thing that we needed to get out of Read more…
My friends, welcome to the coming golden age. We have not had such a fertile ground for unfounded speculation since the JFK assassination. I mean they tried with Bill Clinton, but you really can’t come up with vast global conspiracy theories with principals who are so obviously venal, narcissistic and Read more…
Ok, first we had the NY Times, the NY Times, explicitly comparing the Obama economic program to Nazi Germany, and saying that this wasn’t a bad thing. Then we have the Huffington Post, that right-wing wingnut rag, calling out Jeanine Garafolo for being an asshat for calling the April 15th Read more…
I promise to get back to writing posts and inane music videos soon, but politics this week has just about made my head explode. I don’t even have the energy to rant anymore. I’m just going to bullet point some highlights: Americans may not know or care that the UK Read more…