Our obsession with guns has run up against our desire to be tough on crime, resulting in laws that are beyond ironic. According to an article in the LA Times: Self-defense laws reward shooters with permission to kill if they can prove they’re acting out of fear for their lives. At the same time, minimum […]
Helen Philpot of Margaret and Helen tells it like it is. Here’s a few quotes to get you to go read the whole rant: Margaret, if my vagina could shoot bullets it would have fewer regulations on it. Plus, it would be easier to conceal from idiot politicians like Rick Perry and John Kasich. And […]
© Ted Rall Was it my imagination, or was the media trying to turn this into another blockbuster like the OJ Simpson trial? Everyone seems to be riled up, but we still don’t have any real answers as to what to do. I’m thinking that “stand your ground” laws are a very bad idea, but […]
© Jen Sorensen This is not a joke. For many low-paid workers, the fees reduce the amount of money they earn to less than minimum wage.
So, within 30 seconds of the crash of Asiana flight 214 at SFO, there was a photo of it posted on Twitter. Almost as quickly, the mainstream media jumped on the theory that the crash occurred because of the Korean tradition of unwillingness to question authority. The theory posited that surely one of the co-pilots […]
© Derf What is amazingly ironic is that the Republican Congressman who said that we know that fetuses can feel pain because they masturbate in the womb … is an OB/GYN.
© Adam Zyglis Is the cure worse than the disease? Wake up! At one point we Americans were demanding that the government protect us from those big bad terrorists. As a result, we got torture, Guantanamo, two wars, body searches at airports, and a surveillance state to rival those of the most oppressive dictatorships in […]
© Tom Tomorrow Yes, I will admit it. Even I have been somewhat guilty of spending an inordinate amount of time talking about whistleblower Edward Snowden himself, rather than the repercussions of the things he has leaked to the media. Is there no hope for any of us? Is corporate media that adept at controlling […]
The Washington Post has published an opinion piece by Daniel Ellsberg. Like Snowden, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act because he released the famous “Pentagon Papers” to the press in 1971. The Pentagon Papers were top-secret documents that exposed that successive presidents had lied about the Vietnam War. You really should read it, but […]
Here’s an interesting twist to the Edward Snowden saga: “Have We All Been Fooled By Edward Snowden?” Some people have been looking into postings done by Snowden on various internet chat rooms and forums, such as Ars Technica. For example, in 2009, Snowden ripped into leakers and whistleblowers, saying they “should be shot in the […]
I have to admit, I’m not really sure what to think about what is going on in Egypt right now. Some of you may remember that I visited Egypt less than two years ago, just after the revolution but before the elections. But if I learned one thing from talking to people there, it is […]
© Tom Tomorrow Well, I guess the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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