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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Creative Immigration Solutions

© Brian McFadden The part of this comic that hit me the most was the very first panel. How did we somehow change from a country largely made up of immigrants, that used to be so welcoming to immigrants that we have a huge statue to welcome them, to a country that treats immigrants like […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“In a big meeting of the Republican National Committee, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told the GOP to ‘stop being the stupid party’. Then Texas Governor Rick Perry gave the rebuttal.” – Jay Leno “The U.S. Postal Service raised the price of a stamp yesterday. Stamps are something that the pilgrims used before we had the […]

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The US Gang Problem

Business Journals seem to be publishing articles that are downright liberal recently. One interesting example is this article — “The four business gangs that run the US” No, two of them are not the Democratic and Republican parties. We’re talking about the gangs with real power. Here they are: Military-industrial complex – Fifty years ago […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Already the Obama administration has been rocked by scandal. Beyonce lip-syncing; or at least we think she was lip-synching. Manti Te’o said it sounded very real to him.” – Bill Maher “Lip-synching – let that be a lesson; if you are in Washington DC and you open your mouth and another voice comes out, it […]

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The Difference between Voters and Dirt

© Jen Sorensen Well, it looks like it backfired. Republican plans to “reform” our electoral college voting system to make it even more unfair – and to boost Republican chances of winning the next presidential election, even if they lose the popular vote – couldn’t stand up to the glare of attention it received. And […]

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Trigger Happy

The media gets distracted by a non-issue, and puts their foot in it: So the White House calls their bluff:

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Late Night Political Humor

“House Speaker John Boehner said that President Obama’s focus is to annihilate the Republican Party. Do Republicans look like they need any help from President Obama? They’re doing a hell of a job themselves.” – Jay Leno “The Pentagon has allowed women to serve in combat. Yeah, the hope is that we can now finally […]

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Vaguely Disturbing by Calculation

© Ruben Bolling Yes it’s true, federal laws against computer crime are so vague and overreaching that pretty much everyone is guilty of violating them. Of course, these laws are invoked only when you piss someone powerful off, like Aaron Schwartz did. I have a friend who discovered that some computers at the company where […]

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Seems Apropos to Me

In one of the largest academic scandals in recent history at the school, as many as 60 students have been forced to withdraw from Harvard University after they were found cheating on a final exam. Why is this ironic? Because the class was “Introduction to Congress”.

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Late Night Political Humor

“There’s a photo from the Inauguration in which Former President Bill Clinton appears to be checking out Kelly Clarkson. Clinton said, ‘That’s not true, I was checking out Beyonce and Kelly Clarkson got in the way’.” – Conan O’Brien “Beyonce is remaining silent about charges that she lip-synched the national anthem. However, the charges are […]

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Glenn Beck’s Utopia

Glenn Beck reveals his vision for Utopia, and Jon Stewart points out the obvious flaw – that it looks more like a fascist tin-pot dictator’s home-owner’s association, which controls what you can and cannot do even more than the government Beck professes to hate:

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