Author: The Mound of Sound

A cabinet minister from America’s close ally in the War on Terror, Pakistan, is offering a bounty of about $90,000 for the killing of the guy behind the  “Innocence of Muslims” film that has inflamed the Muslim world. Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Balor said at a news conference in Peshawar

Imagine the horror.   You’re being threatened by a double amputee (one leg, one arm) in a wheelchair brandishing a pen (presumably in the one hand he uses to propel his wheelchair).   What are you going to do?   Well, if you’re a heavily armed, Houston cop, all alone (except for your

The Gods must be smiling down on Crispy Clark.  Her right of centre rivals, the B.C. Conservatives, have imploded.  After the Cons’ leader, Geriatric John Cummins, was backed by a 71%  vote, the party’s sole MLA, former Lib John van Dongen got into a car and sailed off into the

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Bill Moyers has the key to restoring democracy to his United States of America.  This is a racket, plain and simple. A new report from Moody’s Investor Service says that all that spending by the parties, corporations, super PACs and other outside groups will push political ad spending up this

Naomi Wolf saw something horrid in the Mitt Romney “behind closed doors” video – the last gasp of the American Dream. …I find [Romney’s] remarks fascinating and important to deconstruct because they affirm – as insider discourse captured for the public often can – the fact that a new kind

The allegation is simple.   Pharmaceutical companies provide doctors with studies favourable to their products but don’t publish studies that show the drug to be worthless or worse. I did everything a doctor is supposed to do. I read all the papers, I critically appraised them, I understood them, I discussed them with

Former Republican presidential contender Herman Cain doesn’t like what he sees in his party’s nominee, Mitt Romney. Cain told members of the media after the speech that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s recent “47 percent” comment was a “non-story” being blown out of proportion by the media. But Cain said

Ralph Nader isn’t pulling any punches when sizing up Mitt the Twit Romney. Hey, Mitt, why start with the 47 percent? Fully 100 percent of the nation’s 500 biggest corporations are dependent on various kinds of corporate welfare – subsidies, giveaways, bailouts, waivers, and other dazzling preferences – while many

The French government has directed its scientists to verify a study that found a genetically modified corn developed by Monsanto could be toxic. Even at low doses, the GMO studied was highly toxic and even fatal for rats, to the point where if it was a medicine, it would be

Maybe that’s why they joined the Tea Party.   America’s least educated white population is not faring particularly well.   A study has shown their life expectancy has fallen by four years since the 1990’s.  Researchers have long documented that the most educated Americans were making the biggest gains in life expectancy,

One of the greatest guitar solos you may ever experience.    Keith Richards, Sympathy for the Devil. I may be biased.   I will, however, pass up concerts to go out of my way to watch this: If you don’t like this, get used to it.   Ten, twenty years max and this

Jon Stewart elegantly dismembers FOX News Stewart hits this right out of the ballpark.