There’s a fascinating article in BBC News that describes how Richard Nixon deliberately and clandestinely sabotaged the peace talks that were about to produce a halt to the bombing in the war in Vietnam. One of Nixon’s senior campaign advisors convinced the South Vietnamese to pull out of the peace talks, promising them a better […]
After the Nth Gun Massacre in recent history, there was a small attempt to discuss potential ways that we might be able to reduce gun violence. But the far right went nuts (even more nuts than usual), stockpiling guns and ammunition, calling for everyone to carry concealed weapons and allowing more guns in schools, walking […]
© Matt Bors I don’t know why, but every time something financial keeps going up and up, despite there not being any particular reason for it doing so, I keep thinking that it is just another economic bubble about to burst. Have I really become that jaded? Or am I just one of the only […]
[Before you think I’m against minimum wage laws (I’m not) and complain in the comments, read the whole post.] An article in the Huffington Post points out something that I think should be obvious to all businesspeople, but apparently isn’t. The article is about Costco CEO Craig Jelinek, who recently came out in favor of […]
According to that hot-bed of anti-war sentiment, Forbes magazine, the Department of Homeland Security has issued a purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. Yes, that’s billion. To give you an idea of how much that is, at the worst of the Iraq war, we were expending less than 6 million rounds of ammo […]
How did anyone manage to fit all these conservative wet dreams into a single comic? © Ruben Bolling By the way, if you don’t believe there are legal loopholes that let even minors to acquire restricted firearms (including automatic weapons), read this. Interestingly, Bad Fetus appeared back in 1990 in Ruben Bolling’s very first “Tom […]
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas J Watson, Chairman and CEO of IBM, in 1943. “We’re in the business of delivering what consumers want, and to stay a little ahead of what we think they will want. We just don’t see the need of delivering that to consumers.” […]
Or are they just going to keep cutting off their noses to spite their faces? Ezra Klein sums up the current sequester situation well. Republicans have five goals/demands: Reduce the deficit. Cut entitlement spending. Protect or increase defense spending. Get rid of unnecessary deductions and loopholes in the tax code. Lower tax rates. Now, I […]
© Tom Tomorrow Somehow, conservatives have hoodwinked us into believing that there is some sort of financial emergency, and that in order to avoid cutting entitlements in the future, we have to… cut them now! This is nonsense. An excellent article in The New Yorker that explains the real situation, and gives a strong hint […]
“Sad news from the Vatican. As you know, Pope Benedict was fired a couple of weeks ago. They caught him stealing communion wafers” – David Letterman “The big question: Who’s going to replace the Pope? Where’s the new Pope going to come from? I think they should check out Whole Foods. I’ve seen plenty of […]
Russell Brand takes on two members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Complete bizarreness ensues. Who knew that Gandhi went to hell!
© David Horsey I actually do think that if humanity were existentially threatened, that we would come together. But it would take something dramatic. I think at least part of our problem right now is that we are relatively really well off, and everyone knows that money is the root of all evil, right? But […]
If you are tired of your choices of internet providers and want something faster, you are probably tired of waiting for some huge telecom company to install something faster, since they are perfectly happy making money off their old, slow connections. But a group of rural farmers in England took matters into their own hands, […]
Support for the Tea Party has fallen from 24% of voters to an abysmal 8% – and those numbers are from a Republican pollster. Things are so bad that the South Florida Tea Party – one of the largest Tea Party groups – has changed their name to the National Liberty Federation. The Tea Party, […]
© Tom Tomorrow Don’t get me wrong, I’m not at all happy with all the drone attacks being done in our name. But I think the left is barking up the wrong tree calling this a violation of the constitution. The constitution specifically gives the president the power to conduct wars, and whether we like […]
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