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“Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” — What’s a Progressive To Do?

You can be forgiven if you don’t know what to think about the latest crazy meme running around the innertubes. Apparently, a recent episode of South Park was censored before it aired by Comedy Central, after they received a veiled threat because the episode contained images of the prophet Mohammed. OMG, censorship, that’s bad, right? […]

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Petty Cash Crash

© Tom Toles Billions and billions.

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Late Night Political Humor

“Look I’m sorry I told you to go fuck yourself last week (and that other time, like, six months ago.) I know that I criticize you and Fox News a lot, but only because you’re truly a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization.” – Jon Stewart “Fox News: You are the lupus of news.” – Jon […]

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Deficit Reduction? How About Cutting Imperialism?

I’m not sure why Bill Maher was focusing solely on the space program for the first 90 seconds, but the rest of his rant is great: I love these quotes: The problem with the tea party movement … is that they want money for nothing and chicks for free. They want a deregulated free market […]

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The Fox Guarding the Chicken Coop

The Bush-appointed head of the agency that is responsible for protecting government whistle-blowers has been charged with retaliating against his own employees, closing hundreds of whistle-blower cases without any investigation, withholding vital information from Congress, and of destroying evidence to cover up his actions. Is this any surprise, considering that the Bush administration was willing […]

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Sleeping Regulators Lie?

© Drew Sheneman Thirty-three employees of the SEC have been punished for watching pornography online, including during the time when the economy was crashing. Of course, the Republicans were quick to use this to try to block financial reform, saying “This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to […]

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Chickening out of Health Care

Recently, Nevada Senate candidate Sue Lowden suggested that people without health insurance could barter with their doctors, trading chickens for health care. Naturally, the innertubes loved this and her comments went viral. It is a bit silly actually, and personally I wish our elections would be decided on the issues, not on imprudent comments. But […]

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Surveys never lie, but liars always survey

The Associated Press and CNBC jointly released a new poll about American attitudes toward marijuana under the headline “Legalization: More Americans Say ‘No’”. Now, reading this, you might think that the majority of Americans are against legalizing marijuana, but this is a textbook example of how you can skew survey results by cunning choice of […]

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American Banking is Like Making Sausage?

© Jack Ohman Best argument against Financial Reform yet!

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Late Night Political Humor

“As you probably know, the volcano on the tiny island of Iceland has shut down air traffic. President Obama had to cancel his trip to Poland. President Obama said he hopes the volcano will stop smoking soon and the volcano said the same thing about him.” – Jimmy Kimmel “You can’t fly an airplane through […]

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Republican Financial Mismanagement

Republicans often claim that government can’t do anything right, that governments always waste money. Maybe they are just projecting. An internal probe of the Republican National Committee (RNC) has found that the organization is suffering from questionable financial management. Signatures are being forged onto expense reimbursement paperwork, clothing, wine, and entertainment expenses are being listed […]

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Time to Pay the Piper

© Joel Pett The best politicians money can buy.

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Airline CEOs say the only way they can compete is to have less competition!

A long time ago I lived in Texas, and one of the (few) high points of my stay there was reading Jim Hightower. So I was pleasantly surprised to see him still fighting the good fight in an article about the airlines. Apparently, a number of airline CEOs are claiming that the problem with the […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“What a day for the tea party people. Did you see that? America’s parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of man-boobs. They were venting their anger and rage against taxes, which, of course, in most cases for them went down. Protesting their taxes went down – but you know, why let the truth […]

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Mitch McConnell, Financial Derivative

© John Sherffius How obvious do Republicans have to be in order to make it clear that they are the puppets of Wall Street?

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