Democrats for Santorum
Recognizing that there’s just not enough hilarity these days: But, don’t forget Detroit Republicans for Romney
The Mound of Sound
And If You Still Can’t Believe America is Crazy
Consider this bill now working its way through the Wyoming legislature. On Friday, the Wyoming House of Representatives advanced a bill to set up a task force to prepare for…
Europe Remains "A Question of War and Peace"
Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl warns today’s crop of European leaders not to forget the lessons of Europe’s bloody past. “The current discussion in Europe and the crisis in Greece…
Don’t Buy That New Atlas Just Yet
Somewhere down in the crawlspace is my highschool atlas from the 60’s. I have kept it as I have the four or five ‘updated’ atlases I picked up over the…
Why Heartland Inc. Needs to Be Taken Down
Our youth, as the radical right wants them to be
This Just In – Rich People Lie & Cheat
Rich people are more likely to lie and cheat than ordinary stiffs like you. A study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences began when a…
Wiki-Anon, The New Empire Busters?
The dynamics of this duo promise to be earth-shaking. WikiLeaks joining forces with Anonymous. As Cole Stryker writes over at Salon.com, we may be on the brink in a new…
It’s That Time Again. Care To Place A Bet?
The Oscars are over. Now we turn our attention to the Republican presidential campaign and possible running mates for the frontrunners. There should be a coffee table book of Republican…
Rupe Murdoch’s Morally Bankrupt News Crews
E-mails are surfacing that show how extensively Rupert Murdoch’s operators in the UK corrupted government and police officials. News International had claimed that the voicemail hacking was a “rogue” operation.…
Britain Secures Escape Route Out of Afghanistan
Britain has cut a deal with Kazakhstan to let it extract six billion dollars worth of equipment, including tanks and armoured personnel carriers, safely out of Afghanistan. The Brits were…
And The Leaks Just Keep On Coming
Wikileaks rocks – at least if you’re part of the US intelligence community. They’ve just released a dump of e-mails from American security outfit, Stratfor, sometimes described as the “shadow…
No, No, These Are Primaries, Not Primates
I just can’t understand why Republican presidential candidates don’t get evolution. After all, they’ve mastered the ability to reverse it.
The Dead Wolves of Athabasca
The next victims of Steve Harper’s bitumen fetish are to be thousands of grey or timber wolves. Harper passed a death sentence on them, slaughtering one species supposedly to take…
Security for Oil
“Nice country ya got here. It’d be a real shame if something happened to it.” Britain is hot to trot for Somalia or, to be specific, Somalia’s oil. And, it’s…
Gas Prices Soaring? Care to Speculate Why?
An eye-opening analysis from McClatchey Newspapers. As in Canada, American pump prices are soaring. Republican candidates are jumping aboard to blame Obama. But the newspaper points out to two facts…
Hamas Flips, Turns on Assad, Backs Revolt
The Palestinian Islamic movement, Hamas, has had a long relationship with Syrian president Bashar al Assad. That’s now over. Hamas has switched sides and now supports the Syrian revolt to…
Definition of a Conservative
A Conservative is an old white man sitting on his porch yelling at the Future to get off his lawn. I wish I could remember where I read that. I…
The Peril of the Authoritarian Mind
“They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result…. And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and…
The Modern Right – Either They Get Toppled or We’re All Going Down
It’s time we stopped treating the chasm between the right and left as a legitimate difference of opinion. It’s not and that’s very dangerous – for them and for us.…
The Perversion of Canada’s Military
Since he clawed his way into power, Steve Harper has wasted little time turning Canada’s public and armed services into political agencies of the prime minister’s office. He began by…