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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Did Glenn Beck murder http://glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com/ ?

Glenn Beck may not have murdered and raped a young girl in 1990, but he sure is trying to murder the website that discusses evidence of it. Lawyers representing Beck have filed a domain name dispute, claiming that the domain name glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com violates his trademark. And according to the website in question, they also contacted […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“In 2012, the Republicans are now talking about the presidential ticket, Dick Cheney and running as vice president Sarah Palin. Talk about your dream ticket. Oh buddy, the comedy recession is over. I mean, come on, talk about your shotgun marriage.” – David Letterman “There was an article in Vanity Fair that says Sarah Palin […]

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Health Reform is Easy!

© Kevin Siers

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Presidential Protest – Then and Now

© Tom Tomorrow

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Porky Pig and Daffy Duck explain how insurance works

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Late Night Political Humor

“The swine flu just is bad. And everybody’s worried about it. As a matter of fact, former Vice President Dick Cheney is so concerned about swine flu that today he fried his bacon in Purell.” – David Letterman “A new study from the University of Maryland finds that swine flu easily overtakes other strains of […]

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Advice for Schoolchildren

© Chan Lowe Ironically (especially given this cartoon), Laura Bush is defending Obama’s school speech, saying it is “really important for everyone to respect the President of the United States.” The full text of Obama’s speech to schoolchildren.

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Confusing the Confused

One of the strategies used by opponents of health care reform is to throw out so many confusing things that people don’t know what to think. At the very least, this works to slow things down. But it appears that some people actually believe some of the crazier things being thrown out there. A poll […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“As of today, same-sex couples may now legally get married in Vermont. So finally, finally, after years of waiting, we’ll get to hear these words out of Vermont: ‘I now pronounce you Ben and Jerry.’” – Conan O’Brien “It’s great day for America, everybody. I’ll tell you why. Because, as of today in the state […]

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Then and Now – the Pendulum Swings

I was listening to a radio program today, and the commentator was talking about how most people in this country are for health care reform (most are even for single payer), but that it is the noisy few who are against reform who get all the attention from the media. He even compared the people […]

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Rationing? Death Panels? We already have them!

The Republicans keep repeating the lie that health care reform will institute “death panels” where government bureaucrats will decide who can have treatment and who will die. So it is interesting to do a reality check and realize that the truth is that we already have death panels, but that they are run by the […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Barack Obama and his family took a vacation on Martha’s vineyard and they’re back. And the President now has asked all of the major networks for some air time tomorrow night to show his vacation photos.” – David Letterman “But now here’s the deal. When are you a president, you can’t do anything. People always […]

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The Future of News?

The takeover of mainstream media by large corporations has had two devastating effects. Most obvious is the editorial control that the corporations have exercised over their properties, but I think a bigger problem is the resulting fiscal control. The need to control costs and increase profits has led to a media that can afford to […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“The Obama family is taking a vacation up there in Martha’s Vineyard, it is a good time for the president to take a vacation, I think. I mean, everything is fixed, right? Why not knock off? And they are talking about Obama may play a round of golf with Tiger Woods. That is a little […]

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Ted, we’ll miss you

© Jack Ohman

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