Taking on a Revolting Bully
A billionaire Mormon backer of Mitt Romney with an anti-gay axe to grind and a habit of using his vast wealth to harass, intimidate and silence critics gets openly challenged…
American politics
Molly’sBlog 2012-01-25 21:43:00
HUMOUR: ALL THE POLITICIAN THAT MONEY CAN BUY:
SOPA delayed, but Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act carries on
Sums It Up Quite Nicely. | Image from The Guardian.co.uk 18 U.S. Senators have withdrawn their support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) due to an overwhelmingly negative online…
Newt and The Robot…
… would be most excellent BFFs if the former pulls off the near impossible and wins the GOP nomination AND defeats Obama. I can just picture them walking in the…
Molly’sBlog 2012-01-21 22:47:00
HUMOUR: HARD TIMES REPUBLICAN STYLE:
Meat to Barking Dogs
Cruising through Memeorandum this morning, this item caught my attention: Michelle Obama’s Birthday Restaurant Has Occupy-Themed Burger Menu. The restaurant of her birthday festivities features a “99% Patty Melt” on…
Liberals opt to tread cautiously into the future
Stage in Canada Hall at the Liberal Biennial Convention. Canada’s die-hard Liberals are wrapping up their Biennial Convention in Ottawa this afternoon. It has been an enthusiastic affair, despite the…
Jymn’s half-assed Predictions for 2012
Occupy will stay underground and grow its infrastructure and goals. More and more organizations and individuals will pledge allegiance to the movement. The media will interpret this lack of visibility…
No Grassroots Support…No Problem
If it's not on a cup, it's not true. Guess what folks, you can buy your official Made In The USA Obama merch now. Have a birther friend who you…
Afraid to call a Liar a Liar
The Montreal Gazette headline is ‘NDP accuses Tony Clement of doctoring Hansard’. Wow, thinks the reader, that’s a pretty serious allegation, accusing someone of deliberately distorting the public record of…
Occupy protests must find a way to politicize while dodging rubber bullets
UC Davis campus police pepper spraying protesters. A second wave of evictions and police violence is being unleashed upon Occupy protesters across North America, and the resiliency of the movement…
Alison Redford owes me an apology
Me and the millions of other Canadians and Albertans who care about the environment for suggesting that she has the right to go to Washington and lobby for the Keystone…
NGDP targeting: wither monetarism?
Monetarism is like a Zombie: it can be found theoretically wanting, empirically false and technically infeasible but in one form or another it just soldiers on. In some ways the…
Biggest concern with Rick Perry’s debate gaffe? Not his poor memory…
Rick Perry and Ron Paul at the CNBC GOP debate in Detroit, MI. It seems that the biggest take away from the GOP presidential candidate debate last week was that…
Matt Taibbi is beginning to get it about the Occupy movement
Most political/cultural/populist movements begin in back rooms, in clandestine meetings over a period of years. Many times the resultant movement looks little like the disorderly chaos of the initial gatherings.…
Punished for Overreach
The number one crippling tactical flaw of the American Republican party is a tendency to drink their own kool-aid. Over and over they make the same mistake, confusing what they…
Explaining Gay Rights
Not exactly relevant in Canada, but still useful for dealing with your fundamentalist relatives over the holiday season.
All You Really Need to Know About Herman Cain
Herman Cain sees the Virgin Mary on a tortilla: He has won over some voters . . . by telling them that, when he was suffering from colon cancer, he…
Scott Walker gets mic checked!
From the estimable Brad Blog, I find this video from a speech by Wisconsin governor Scott Walker at a Chicago engagement both amusing and important. We need more of this.…
“Christian” Family Values?
Texas judge William Adams beats his daughter with a belt. Warning: this video will trigger victims of abuse. I could only watch about thirty seconds at a time. The video…