“President Obama will run for reelection in 2012. He’s not breaking up with us! He wants to work things out! He’s forgiving our poor record on post-recession job creation, our incessant demands to be talked to every time we go to war.” – Jon Stewart “President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though it’s not really […]
© Tom Toles Apparently Beck was too crazy for even Fox News. Or maybe they weren’t paying him enough. A few tweets: Richard Roeper: “Glenn Beck to leave Fox News. Announcement causes immediate, drastic fall in stock price of chalkboards, Hitler graphics and bottled crazy.” Roger Ebert: “Fox drops Glenn Beck. One small step for […]
“The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up trucks with small arms, take over a country of millions? To which I say, ask the Teabaggers.” – Bill Maher “TLC will start airing new episodes of ‘Kate Plus 8’ […]
A parable (koan?) on the separation of church and state: In the small town of Mt. Vernon, Texas, the local bar started to build a new building to increase business. The town’s Baptist church was strongly opposed, and attempted to block the opening of the new bar with petitions and prayer. Just before the bar […]
Obama receives an award for openness, behind closed doors: [From the Daily Show]
Believe it or not, real immigration reform has been achieved in America. The bill includes a liberal guest worker program that grants legal status to undocumented workers, so they can live relatively normal lives. Some people have called that “amnesty”. But what is truly amazing is that this bill is set to become law in […]
© Ed Stein Stein’s commentary: We may yet get a budget deal without a government shutdown, but it won’t be any credit to the Tea Party absolutists who see ANY compromise as a betrayal of their core principles. It will be because feckless Democrats caved on theirs. The last I heard, the Dems were so […]
Joseph Stiglitz has a must-read article in Vanity Fair “Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%“. The article systematically deconstructs and debunks the many myths of inequality. For example, you probably won’t find any politicians promoting the theory of “trickle-down economics” any more, and yet we are still furiously cutting taxes for the […]
“Republican Congressman Tom Marino, who is on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said: ‘If we go into Libya, where does it stop? Do we go into Africa next?’ So, you see why he’s not on the Intelligence Committee.” – Jay Leno “Sarah Palin said on Fox News that we are in a ‘squirmish’ with Libya. When […]
“Bachmann is the female Ann Coulter” — I love it. As the creator of this video, D.C. Douglas puts it: You might say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. … After all that America has been through recently — the recession, Wall Street, God’s natural disaster punishments — we truly need […]
© Barry Deutsch A dear friend of mine died from cancer yesterday, but his equally awful battle with his health insurance reminded me of how screwed up our health care system really is. Pretty much everyone I know has either had a bad experience with their health insurance provider, or has a friend or family […]
“Sarah Palin continues to make significant contributions to the English language. She asked, ‘Is Libya a war, an intervention, a squirmish, what is it?’ Squirmish is how I feel every time I hear Sarah Palin talk.” – Jimmy Kimmel [oh come on, everyone knows a squirmish is a squeamish skirmish! -IK] “Newt Gingrich said he’s […]
© Jen Sorensen From the Tea Party to Sustainable Food, never underestimate the ability of corporations to take over any grassroots movement. After all, they managed to co-opt rock and roll and pervert its original anti-establishment message.
The company that owns the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is Transocean Ltd. You remember, the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, killing 11 people immediately, spilling 200 million gallons of oil, costing untold amounts of money, killing dolphins and other sea life, and causing major ruin and destruction on the gulf […]
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