Steve Given the new Supreme Court ruling on corporate freedom to now go as wild as they like in political campaign spending a new report shows that this past year it was getting much worse . . . all by itself. Can it be any clearer the reasons the government has stopped working, it seems, altogether: … Read more
Walking through beautiful Inwood Park the other day, in the middle of our picturesque snowstorm, I suddenly heard a familiar voice. It was a snowman in the image of (major Global Warming denier) Senator James Inhofe . “It’s all bunk, Sonny.”, he said. “It’s cold, right? There’s all this snow, right? What are ya, blind?.” … Read more
Sarah Palin’s celebrity-burn-rate continues at volcanic temps. We happy blog workers here are always glad to help. Forget the Super Bowl, dig Sarah’s flying wedge . . . against herself. So after pissing off Tea Partiers with a very un-populist $100,000 fee for her to chirp at their convention in Nashville, she is caught referring … Read more
On Sunday’s Super Bowl, the Half-Time Show will take its cue from the ground-breaking commercial scheduled by Focus on the Family in which Tim Tebow, college football star, makes his anti-abortion case by stating that he wasn’t aborted and he’s darned glad about it. Immediately following this announcement the teams will take the field at … Read more
Howard Zinn, who passed away last week was a hero to many of us and a pain in the neck to the right people. Basically, he devoted his life to seeing past mythology and getting history down to the brave reality. Romantic history can kill, he says. But the truth, while painful at first, is … Read more
