Easy money on sucker bets!
Republicans have been cheating uneducated working people for years by foisting off ridiculously distorted alternate realities. These moronic dupes have been swaggering and boasting about how smart...
View ArticleRepublican Götterdämmerung
When the election was called for Obama Tuesday evening, diehard Republicans were whining and moaning as if the end of the world had come and that the next four years would be terrible times. What's...
View ArticleAttack of the zombie pinheads!
Have you noticed? They're starting already. As soon as the election was called Tuesday night, strange pieces started to appear characterizing the incoming administration as an evil cabal of nefarious...
View ArticleFake open letters from professional pinheads
Another, more insidious variety of pinhead has come to my attention. These are not conventional know-nothing, brain-dead automatons, hypnotized by the siren song of neo-con claptrap. They are the...
View ArticleUSPS Eid stamp subtle salute to President-elect?
Hey, pinheads! I've got the proof that Muslims are ecstatic that Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America and are taking the opportunity to rub your noses in it. Nyah, nyah,...
View ArticleInsensitivity to turkey slaughter key to Republican thinking
What is the real meaning of Governor Palin's clumsily staged interview in front of the turkey-killing apparatus? I got something a bit different than most of the posts I've seen.
View ArticleKarl Rove's cover-up shifts to high gear
He's desperate and does not hesitate. Now, he's now killing anyone who threatens to expose him. The mastermind of the theft of two Presidential elections is attempting to buy time by sabotaging the...
View ArticleExtraneous details of earthshaking importance
A lot of important things happen, and get a brief flutter of attention in the media, but barely get noticed. You never hear about the occurrence again. Why is that? What's the deal with these...
View ArticleGetting it
There are people who just don't "get it". Things that are as obvious as the nose on one's face are treated as strange, fanciful notions by some elements of society. However, what it is that is to be...
View ArticleTeabagging? Are you kidding? No? OK.
There must be more to this. This thing can't be a straight-up mistake. I am beginning to think that a self-loathing, closeted, gay "conservative" came up with this mime as a desperate cry for help....
View ArticleCats get better health care than people.
By the time you read this, Mavric [sic] will be no more. She has been stowed for the last time in the plastic cat travel cage and trundled off to the vet for a last, affectionate stroke of a hand and a...
View ArticleAds for medical care
Have you noticed the surge in advertising for private health care facilities? I have. What's the purpose of advertising a hospital or clinic, anyway? They don't want more business, do they? Do they...
View ArticleAbolish health insurance now!
Another installment in the curmudgeon's-eye-view of the health care mess in this country addresses the second point of my nine-point prescription to make us all as healthy and happy as any...
View ArticleCanadian health care exposed!
...or, how to get people to believe truth instead of lies!
View ArticleBah! Stupid Americans! Why are you so insane?
I heard President Obama on the radio talking about education, and not about health care reform. Oh, Lord, not again!
View ArticleGrappling with stupidity
Most of the people I try to discuss politics with are pretty slow. Regardless of whether they are enthusiastic Obama supporters before I was, or brain-dead, die-hard Republican zombies, they share a...
View ArticlePerfect solutions and health care reform
We all know what a perfect solution is; it's the scheme that delivers a completely satisfying result, ties up all loose ends, punishes the guilty, rewards the virtuous and leaves everyone wondering,...
View ArticleHealth insurance boycott
Good ideas are plentiful, but no one seems to know how to put them into motion. Seriously now, how are we going to get health care? The answer may not lie in making little steps in the right direction....
View ArticleFree clinic, free lunch, free love
Republicans hate free clinics. They get angry when you discuss them. The idea of someone getting something of value and not paying for it clearly just makes them crazy. We may have something here....
View ArticleCompete with private insurance?
"Let's meet the corporate power structure head-on and go toe-to-toe with them in the marketplace!" At least that's what more of you think will get rid of insurance companies faster than anything else....
View ArticleWhat's wrong with Harry Reid?
I've got this one figured out. Everyone but me is asking why Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won't push through health care reform now. I know why. It's a painful truth that smacks of prejudice, but...
View ArticleHolding Democrats' feet to the fire gathering steam!
How's that for a mixed metaphor? Levity aside, it looks as if putting the squeeze on Senate Democrats who won't come out strongly for public option health insurance is beginning to show some results!...
View ArticleActs of conscience on social networks
I couldn't figure out what I had just done until I framed it in this manner. Otherwise, it didn't make much sense. I had alienated someone I like, as a matter of conviction, because of something they...
View ArticleThe real American dream
Sure. It's bad, but you've got to have a plan, right? Everybody does, and everyone's plan is a scheme for how they are going to beat the system.
View ArticleUSA a third world country
Get used to it. The downward slide has begun. The solution? Radical social and economic change to effect social and economic democracy. To to barricades, comrades! Don't freak out. Having the epiphany...
View ArticleThey can't even count!
Do you frequently get the feeling that someone talking on TV or radio is not really the pundit or sage news analyst they purport to be, but a complete moron instead? Watching coverage of the State of...
View ArticleMubarak must go!
...and he will, by next Saturday, no less. I said that this last Saturday, giving the president of Egypt no more than a week. I'm sticking to that prediction.
View ArticleWalk like an Egyptian!
Mubarak's gone and I am up ten bucks. Those who doubted my laser-like insight into world affairs are now awestruck and humbled. My supporters rejoice and laud my prescience. My detractors are cowed,...
View ArticleQaddafi next dictator to go?
How could I have missed this? We have to do the poll again, but this time it will contain the man who is now the most likely candidate. I hope this posts before he's gone.
View ArticleMay I have my health care now?
Osama bin Laden's dead. Is it OK to focus on something else now, like maybe something I care about? I'm obsessed with health care and I think temp body shops should be outlawed. The issues are closely...
View ArticleMoveOn American Dream meeting
I was expecting paeans about unicorns and baby animals playing in meadows full of wildflowers, but it was nothing of the sort. These folks have got their act together. They are doing their homework to...
View ArticleWhere's Muammar? (Desperately seeking Qaddhaafiy)
Mainly, it's more than you want to know about the Arabic language. I'd best hurry with this before they catch him and no one cares even as little as they do now about this stuff. It may come in handy,...
View ArticleYou see, it's like this...
Explaining things to people who don't know what you're talking about isn't easy, but it can be done. We can generalize about political advocacy directed at the masses by analyzing how to transmit other...
View ArticleMy September 11, 2001
Everyone remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the airplanes crashing into buildings. Those details, however mundane, are forever burned into one's...
View ArticleStop referring to Republicans as "GOP"!
The term Grand Old Party (GOP) is an affectionate moniker for the Republican Party that was originated by supporters of that party around 1874. It is not appropriate to use that nickname unless you...
View ArticleA 16:9 man in a still 4:3 world
Are you as tired of munchkin TV as I am? How people watch their spiffy new widescreen TVs is an indicator not only of how savvy they are technically, but an indicator of intellectual development and...
View ArticlePuerto Rico statehood, or independence?
Why does this matter? Isn't everything just fine in Puerto Rico just the way it is? No. Puerto Ricans want change. They're just not sure what form it should take.
View ArticleBan American football?
The question of whether or not to ban this senseless, brutal sport should be a no-brainer, but it's not. The economics and social dynamics that cause this to even be an issue reveal a lot about our...
View ArticleChristie revelations' deeper meaning: He's a pirate!
Chris Christie is a bully, a thug, a crook and a shameless opportunist. We all know that now. What is significant is that ordinary people outside New Jersey finally get what New Jersey people have been...
View ArticleISIL, the new conquistadores, or Kurds and a way out
It's all connected. If you calm down and look at history, it makes more sense.
View ArticleSpeaker McCarthy would be #2, not #3
Having an inarticulate buffoon as Speaker of the House of Representatives would be bad enough, but referring to that office as "third in the line of succession to the president" diminishes the gravity,...
View ArticleWhy Sanders bested Clinton in debate
After watching the contenders for the Democratic Party's nomination for the office of President last Tuesday, I was convinced that the consensus would be that Bernie had won it. It was clear that...
View ArticleDemocratic socialism, a case study
In business schools, they use real-life case studies to demonstrate and explain the effects of different business policies and how external forces, such as government regulation and taxation, affect...
View ArticleTrump still the Republican to beat
Donald Trump is smarter than you think he is. He may not know squat about being President, but he does knows know what ordinary Republicans want, and he knows how to play the game to win.
View ArticleBelieve me yet? Trump the one to beat!
I said this November 15 last year. That’s more than fourteen weeks ago when TV pundits were still treating Donald J. Trump’s candidacy for the presidency as an aberration. As everyone realizes now,...
View ArticleRepublican conservative cage match: Trump v. Cruz
The setup:Two dinosaurs are pitted against each other to decide, once and for all, which one will be the last of their species left standing. Republicans have to choose between Donal J. Trump and...
View ArticleWill President Clinton fulfill the promises of the Democratic Party's platform?
Secretary Clinton must honor her party’s platform because she has secured the support of progressives favoring Senators Sanders and Warren by agreeing to include nearly the entire progressive agenda in...
View ArticleGetting into Trump's head
This piece is about me, as well as Donald Trump. It’s a cathartic introspection, so there are no external citations. I’ve used the cover of anonymity here before to vent without fear of being beaten up...
View ArticleWhy is Trump losing?
Yes, folks, yes, he is losing, big time. I don’t want to get into the reasons why this is happening. It’s pointless. I urge you to accept that this is what is really taking place, for whatever reason,...
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