Wednesday, December 7, 2011
It’s been lots of fun but I gotta run! – Iron Filing UPDATE: Yup, I’m back, but totally jetlagged. Will start posting again soon. Thanks so much to Iron Filing for filling in while I was on vacation. – iron knee
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
©W. Wuerker Scott Turow says it well in a Bloomberg post: The bedrock of our democracy is embodied in the most famous line of the Declaration of Independence, “All men are created equal.” Our belief in the equal dignity and value of every human being has led to the fundamental precept of one person, one […]
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Again, two points of view are presented but you’ll have to decide for yourself which is the good point and which is the bad. – Iron Filing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKVTljo-5jA&feature=player_detailpage’
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
“Republican candidate Rick Perry is denying rumors that his top advisers are being demoted. Yep, Perry was like, ‘I want to make it clear that at no point in this campaign have I had any advisers.’” – Jimmy Fallon “I don’t know if you know the Occupy L.A. protesters have been evicted. They all were […]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Regardless of possible safety concerns and issues of esthetics, FREEWAYBLOGGER has reinvented the soapbox for the modern Commons. View more images – many more images – at FREEWAYBLOGGER’s website. – Iron Filing
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
While the lesser candidates are kissing Trump’s pinkie ring at the NewsMax Reality Debate Show, Huntsman and Paul should have a real debate. ©Paul Szep Clown Donald Trump is hosting the next Republicandog and pony show. Seems appropriate to me but Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul disagree; apparently thinking that running for president should be […]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
A New York Times Book Review of memoirs by Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld is notable for it’s imminently quotable subtitle: In retrospect, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney realize they were right about everything. ©David Horsey The books themselves appear to be a waste of wood fiber but the review, Memories of the Bush Administration, […]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
“Three wealthy investors who are already worth millions won the $254 million Powerball jackpot. Yeah, in a related story, everyone’s head at Occupy Wall Street just exploded.” – Conan O’Brien “President Obama will attend three fundraisers in New York City tomorrow to raise money for his re-election campaign. Seriously? How about holding a fundraiser to […]
©John Deering It’s amazing. Just a few weeks ago, his presidential campaign was just a show to help Gingrich sell books and videos. Less than 6 months ago his campaign staff abandoned him en masse due to his lack of seriousness. Gingrich has not risen like a phoenix, however. Everyone else not-Romney has just dropped […]
The Independent Weekly, Raleigh NC, has yet another excellent piece on our local Occupy movement. We’re not used to SWAT teams in our village, yet here they are: Just down the road in liberal, affable Chapel Hill, where I lived for many years without experiencing police brutality or much civil disobedience, a reporter with a […]
“In Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed Wal-Mart shoppers who tried to cut in line. The police acted fast by immediately hiring her to get rid of peaceful protesters outside banking institutions all across the United States.” – Craig Ferguson “It’s Cyber Monday, when everyone shops online. As soon as I woke […]
Our friend (and I mean friend like Cain means ham sandwich) Andy Borowitz is channeling Herman Cain’s political ghost in this satire of a Herman Cain fare well speech: A Farewell from Herman Cain [by Andy Borowitz of The Borowitz Report] Dear Friend, And when I say “friend,” I mean it in the normal way, […]
I’ve always liked the idea of a forum for dialectic discussion but the implementation usually devolves into a forum for polemics resembling a cage fight more than a meeting of minds. Rather than disappoint by promising balance, I present Good Point Bad Point. Two points of view are presented but you’ll have to decide for […]
“When are these Republican debates going to stop? I mean, this would be the very reason to call for a dictatorship, just to put an end to these.” – David Letterman “This is the 14th Republican debate and there are still 12 more to go. The plan, I think, is to keep debating until somebody […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
©John Sherffius This Sherffius cartoon is pretty accurate. It’s not so much that the middle is missing, it is the Center Right and merely Right that have disappeared from our political system. I’m not enamored by Americans Elect or any third party effort at this moment because splitting the vote could elect someone who makes […]
