Political Discourse in America
OCW protesters confront what they imagine to be a wealthy and insensitive “conservative” woman outside a swanky Washington hotel. I know “liberals” aren’t supposed to pay any attention to these…
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Cain 2012: Performance Art Project?
We should have known at Pokemon! Rachel Maddow is now convinced that Herman Cain’s campaign is nothing more than an elaborate performance art project. As far as offbeat theories to…
Guided Tour of OCW
Independent filmmaker Lee Stranahan saves you the trouble of actually going to Zuccotti Park with a fascinating, hour-long tour of the “Occupy Wall Street” encampment. It’s not an altogether pretty…
In Over Their Heads
Bill Maher’s rebuttal to the right-wing talking point that President Obama is a failure because he’s “in over his head”… You can watch the entire show at this site.
Game Over for Occupy Victoria
The pathetic effort to emulate the OCW protest movement south of the border is rapidly coming to an end in BC’s capital city and will soon be displaced by the…
Brotherly Love
Speaking to a friendly audience at a Washington area rally organized by the Koch Brothers funded astroturf political organization “Americans for Prosperity,” Herman Cain gets his shuck n’ jive on…
Elizabeth Warren v. Heckler
An angry man confronts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren at the outset of a local volunteer meeting in Brockton, Mass. “You’re a socialist whore!” the unemployed Fox News viewer shouted, adding…
Promoting “Conservative Values”
Judge William Adams, caught on tape in 2004 after his daughter secretly filmed him repeatedly beating her on the backside with a belt, apparently for illegally downloading music and games…
Poppycock!
It’s no big deal to drop a loonie in the Legion collection box and pin a poppy on your lapel as a good many people do around this time of…
Nation Maker
Richard Gwyn talks about his new book Nation Maker, the second volume about the life and times of Sir. John A. Macdonald covering the period from Confederation until his death…
Take Off, Eh?
As a Halloween treat, Ezra Levant attempts to be funny by masquerading as an obnoxious “Barge Delahunty” intruding on a Rob Ford look-alike (who knew?) in a series of increasingly…
American Idol
A nine-foot statue of former President Ronald Reagan was unveiled today at the Washington-area airport named after the former General Electric pitchman and star of such film classics as Bedtime…
Rick Perry v. 2.0
You may well have seen some or all of Rick Perry’s astounding speech last Friday to a conservative “family values” group in New Hampshire in which the Texas Governor goes…
Not Quite “Clearing the Air”
Uh oh. The bizarre and increasingly erratic “Cain Train” to the White House has been abruptly derailed for the moment by past allegations of sexual harassment on the part of…
Boundless Irony on Route 91
A Miami police officer is accused of driving 120 mph on a turnpike because he was late for his off-duty job working security at a school. According to the website…
Visions of Hell
Imagine being stuck in a room full of jabbering Marylanders in their local Republican Club’s “Iowa Style Caucus”… For what it’s worth, Newt Gingrich “won” the meaningless event.
Coren on the “Occupy” Protesters
Sun TV’s Michael Coren lambastes the “Occupy” protesters for being “spoiled children of privilege” that are needy, self-indulgent whiners and so on… I have to admit to experiencing a considerable…
Occupy Canada Tackles… Breakfast TV?
As part of a witless effort to “occupy the media”…a handful of OCW copycats in Toronto parade around in the drizzle with mostly unreadable signs in front of City TV’s…
Rob F–king Ford v. Marge Delahunty
Talking to a group of reporters at his extracurricular gig as a high school football coach, Canada’s least popular mayor delivers his latest bullshit version of events concerning a recent…
Tale of the Norden Bombsight
Malcom Gladwell spins a fascinating story about the strange origins and ultimately twisted fate of a fabulously complicated yet practically hapless bomb-sighting device developed at extraordinary expense for the U.S.…