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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Wingnuts Boasting By An Open Pyre
When it comes time for the Xmas piece, with so many jokes available in this present, one hardly knows which cans of worms to open up 1st.

Friday, December 11, 2009
This Week In Capitalism
Capitalism means you screw people over as hard as you can for as much as you can. By those and numerous other standards, 2009 has been a very good year for capitalism.

Sunday, December 6, 2009
Terrorists
(1 comments) If you can risk an spare 40,000 US soldiers and not have to return your Nobel, how many can you spend and still walk away with an Oscar? Oscar for what? Impersonating George Bush, terrorist.

Saturday, November 28, 2009
Current Comedy: “Democrats Rising!”
While not quite the James Carville and Mary Matalin of our time, my wife Beth is a centrist-progressive and I'm from the “Kucinich wasn't even left enough for me” crowd. When Beth opted to become a Democrat, then a candidate and challenge Ron Gould for the state senate seat in LD3, I shuddered for a second, then threw in with her and started attending events where donkey butt is considered a fashion accessory.

Sunday, November 22, 2009
Movie Review: “Capitalism” Isn't Funny
The problem with Moore's new movie is figuring out a way to say the message is great but the movie sucks

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Current Comedy, 9/29/09: Easy Answers
Both the left and the right have something to be embarrassed about at recent rallies.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
In Praise of Joe Wilson: Current Comedy
The name "Joe Wilson" is too cool to let just anyone wear it.

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Have to Be Upside Down
(1 comments) Some people will say, ‘why do I pick on these poor people, just trying to practice their religion? Why make it about religion?' My answer is, of course, I never would want to tease about somebody's religion. Except, of course, when that religion wants me dead.

Friday, September 11, 2009
Preaching to the Choir Part 3:The Right's Jeremiah
Based on policies his office pushed, engineers stalled and underfunded levy maintenance in New Orleans, then stalled and underfunded the initial rescue effort. These were not the facts Franks' audience wanted to be confronted with. The message they were wanting to have reinforced was god, country, guns and tax cuts and that was the raw meat Trent Franks was serving up. And Kingman ate it up.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Current Comedy 8/25/09: “Rev. Right's” Hell House: The 33 Minute Hate
More than healthcare, Trent Franks came to Kingman with a mission to sell us something. A missile. He knew he was preaching to the choir on healthcare. But he was here to sell us something: fire and brimstone.

Thursday, August 20, 2009
Current Comedy: 8/18/09: This is What Democracy Looks Like?
(5 comments) A Report from the Mosh Pit Known as The 8/17/09 Phoenix Healthcare Rally. I was there, took my 15 year old daughter to see it. Best civics lesson I've ever taught her.

Thursday, August 13, 2009
Lone Protester DOES NOT Disrupt Kingman GOP Meeting, Still Makes Point.
(3 comments) I have been protesting for now 30 years--occasionally, in some pretty hostile territory. It is scary to go to the stronghold of your opposition and tell them you think they're wrong. Tonight, however, I was treated clearly better than i have ever been in such a situation. I almost felt supported. Tonight in Kingman, at their own meeting, which they failed to attend, the AZ GOP leadership clearly was not.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Current Comedy, 6/2/09: Marseilles 1212
Though Muslim religious extremists are blamed for inciting violence in the name of their vision of god, America steadfastly and incrementally has retrofitted our military to march onward as Christian soldiers. Because, after all, our Christian religious intolerance is so much more sanctimonious and thus justified than any other religion's zealotry.

Friday, May 22, 2009
Current Comedy, 5/18/09: Tortured Pros
(1 comments) Bit by bit, Obama has tossed away the various special interests groups who gave their hopes to him. At the time it seemed like the man had won himself a mountain of hard-earned political capital. Nowadays it seems like he's at a roulette wheel staking it all on the banks will come up in the black, but so far the only numbers we're seeing are "00."

Friday, May 15, 2009
Current Comedy 5/11/09: Your Miss Teen California, Joe the Plumber
(1 comments) A closer look at before and after photos of Carrie Prejean on loan from her plastic surgeon reveal quite clearly that "Ms Prejean," as most Americans have come to know her, is actually just the latest attempt to cash in by the once ubiquitous Samuel Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber."

Friday, May 8, 2009
Current Comedy, 5/04/09: This is Only a Test
Sometimes in television-land, a soap opera or a situation comedy will get stuck in a recurring theme long after all the entertainment value has been beaten out of it. Thus it is in the current week of the comedy that passes for TV news. At least that is the way it reads with this week's installment of the now continuing series "Gun-Toting Rednecks for Jesus."

Sunday, May 3, 2009
Current Comedy, 4/27/08: Manifest Destiny
The H1N1 "Mexican Swine Flu" is ginving millions of American Revelationsits a reason to hate Mexicans all over again.

Friday, April 24, 2009
Current Comedy, 4/20/09: A New Hussein
I am getting the impression Mainstream Media, er, at least CNN, is consciously trying to Twitter-fy my brain, trying to get me and mine hooked on the latest marketed fad, fully well knowing, as I do because I saw it on their channel, that Twitter destroys all it touches.

Sunday, April 19, 2009
Current Comedy Notes, 4/15/09: Bamboozled
(1 comments) The same week we learn of the US government aiding a Nazi avoid incarceration for prison camp war crimes, we also learn of Obama's choice to boycott the UN Racism Conference in support of our partner in crime, Israel. It's a move that was far more audaciously Bush-like than one would've thought possible. It was Obama betraying us on race.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Current Comedy, 3/30/09: 'Member When Obama Meant Wright, not Right?
Once upon a time (OK, a little more than a year ago)an embattled candidate for president was being maligned for his altruistic, outspoken charismatic preacher who inspired millions the world over with his calls for humanism and justice. Welcome to one year later. Candidate Obama is now the imperial president while Reverend Wright is nowhere to be found. Looks like Obama wasn't listening to those sermons.

Sunday, March 29, 2009
Current Comedy, 3/25/09: Math for the Man in the Middle
(3 comments) America's supposedly mounting Anti-Obama movement may be mostly made up as the message is being framed so the supposed "mainstream" media can continue to sell Obama upriver. After all, framing is everything when you are trying to make someone suspect.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Current Comedy 3/17/09: Earplugs
(1 comments) In the absence of a Republican outrage, mainstream media recently acting as if pundits, pummeled Obama for not quashing the omnibus spending bill due to the wealth of pet projects. But unlike his vengeful predecessor, Obama allowed both sides of the aisle to stud the bill with earmarks. Repubs, besides McCain, aren't whining this go-round because they too scored big time.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Current Comedy 3/9/09: The New Circumcision
(1 comments) In 21st century pluralist America, one out of every four Americans now days no longer affiliate themselves with any Christian sect. According to the American Religious Identification Survey from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, the last twenty years has seen a ten percent decline in Americans claiming Christianity as their religion of choice, with the fastest growing religious preference being "none of the above."

Friday, March 6, 2009
Current Comedy 3/2/09: Fools' Rushin'
(1 comments) Releasing nine legal opinions, the Justice Dept. made public thousands of Bush era emails and other documents that trace his administration's determined assault on the American people.

Friday, February 27, 2009
Current Comedy 2/23/09: Not Only of Cowards
Many Americans are finally ready to acknowledge our economy, our country's sense of self, in fact our very existence has been a-swirl in a Chomsky-esque wash of necessary illusions and the truths that were always mounting behind the masks are now massing to destroy us. The threads are at last unraveling; and the emperor's new suit has arrived worn and wrinkled, shoddy and soiled. And we ourselves are to blame. Yipes!

Friday, February 20, 2009
Current Comedy, 2/16/09: And Featuring John McCain as Count Olaf
(2 comments) Gauging from America's still unwavering support for Obama and fresh pile of mud the GOP just kicked on their own steadily curdling brand name, if they think this first power struggle was a "bad beginning," they're going to hate the way this story ends.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Current Comedy, 2/9/09: GOP Goes to War!
(1 comments) By squandering their first opportunity at seriously reversing some of the disasters they'd knowingly created over the last dozen years, Congressional Republicans, with their mudslinging and hand-wringing song and dance over the Stimulus Package this past weekend, showed themselves, and not the Democrats, to be the Asses.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Current Comedy 2/2/09: To Keep Your Interest
(1 comments) Like our own personal groundhog, Americans look to Obama to guide them through the stormy weather through his actions in one symbolic moment as if he had the power to change where even one raindrop fell; though Obama has a heftier hand at the tiller than most North American fur bearing mammals.

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Current Comedy, 1/28/09: The Change Is Going To Do Me Good
(3 comments) At what point did the whole spectacle of that whole thing last Tuesday get to you in that break-down-sobbing "There's hope for this country after all" kind of mood, where you clutch to your loved ones and look around at the world with new eyes? Understand I am a professional cynic. The liberal in me had already tapped out a long laundry list of various Obama positions to be wary about.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Current Comedy 1/19/09: Hello Private Citizen George Bush
(7 comments) For years we have been told that there was no way to address the indignities that the Bush admin was perpetrating because he was in power, well as of noon tomorrow he's not.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Current Comedy 1.14.09: Pelosi, Palin, and Even Bush Are Right
(4 comments) In an odd example of the way even broken clocks are right twice a day; this week's news cycle saw a trifecta of liars, buffoons and fools getting it right to the point that it honestly bears acknowledging. George Bush, Nancy Pelosi and Sarah Palin all issued public statements that were both smart and correct. Vegas odds-makers would have refused to even speculate as to the chances of such a convergence.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Current Comedy, 1/6/09: Tainted
(1 comments) A phrase with all the lurid appeal of criminality, sex, open wounds and spoiled vegetables was bound to be so overused, unto death, that in a matter of days, no, hours, Stephen Colbert could make fun of said overuse with plenty of clips to spare of supposedly serious people intoning the word "taint" as if it were a physical badge, a Scarlet A soldered onto one's chest that they saw on Roland Burris and not in their own souls.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Current Comedy, 1/6/09: Tainted
A phrase with all the lurid appeal of criminality, sex, open wounds and spoiled vegetables was bound to be so overused, unto death, that in a matter of days, no, hours, Stephen Colbert could make fun of said overuse with plenty of clips to spare of supposedly serious people intoning the word "taint" as if it were a physical badge, a Scarlet A soldered onto one's chest that they saw on Roland Burris and not in their own souls.

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Current Comedy, 1/1/09: Turning Over a New Belief
New Year's is as good a holiday as Xmas to represent hope, and it lasts all year long. I know this wish list reads a little extreme, but if you're all out of "world peace," I'll settle for that cheesy sweater you keep re-gifting me.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Current Comedy, 12/16/08: This Year's Holiday Hits
Every year some lame pundit whips up some sorry ass Christmas song parodies as if that counted for clever commentary. It's one of the oldest tropes in the business, and who am I not to respect tradition? 'Tis the season to make folly, as they say.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Cheney Prison Abuse Investigation Officially Dismantled
Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra has been removed from prosecuting the prison abuse scandal case that brought national attention to this South Texas town by charging Vice President with conspiracy to profit from prisoner abuse and neglect. Though the case initially portended to possibly have national impact, it has evolved into an ongoing battle of wills between prosecutor Guerra and Judge Manuel Banales.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Current Comedy, 12/08/08: The Seven Types of Propaganda, Obama Style
(3 comments) Now that he is defining himself through his cabinet appointments and press releases; it could be fun for the strong stomached to parse the propaganda factor in Obama's present pitches. Or it could be distressingly predictable and depressing. Obama's propaganda does not protrude as pronouncedly as Bush's "Mission Accomplished" codpiece, but he's still got it hanging seven different ways.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Current Comedy 12/08: On Not Drinking the Kool-Aid for General Jim Jones
The story of Juan Angel Guerra and his failed effort to indict Dick Cheney on prison industry corruption, has a personal connection. My wife and i met with Guerra on the day he filed the indictments. He couldn't talk in public. We met in secret. It felt like the scene in the second reel of a movie where the brainiac explains the secret plot to the hapless dupes while they are checking to see if that black SUV is following them

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Current Comedy, 11/17/08: Little Georgie Jr. Loses His Very Own Iraq War
(5 comments) The US and Iraq signed a finalizing peace treaty with a, get this, a "timetable." Iraqi government spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh framed the US departure like this:"This date is not liable to change according to the situation on ground. The date is definite and final." Ladies and Gentlemen, that is definitely what we call 'getting told,' and who gets told in a war? The losers. If you win, you stay however long you want.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Old "Wake up the Morning after Screaming, 'Oh My God, What Have We Done'
(5 comments) When Joe Biden warned Obama would be tested in less than six months by some world leader, no one realized the test would come, not from abroad, but from typically slimy Dems in his own party and secret provisions in the Big Deal Bailout. How Obama handles this mess will define the kind of president we purchased.

Monday, November 3, 2008
Current Comedy, 11/2/08: Dewey Defeats Truman
At latest count, somebody's poll probably has him at like 70 kajillion electoral votes to McCain 41. USA Today lists nation wide voter registration increases that show new voters avoiding Republicanism like anal rashes. And yet--

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Current Comedy, 10/15/08: In His Most Ferocious Performance Yet, McCain Eats Self
(1 comments) In his last chance to salvage, not only his campaign, but his whole political legacy, McCain didn't do, or even attempt to do the noble thing. Instead, he gave in to the dark side and all the pent-up anger inside him from having to watch himself slowly lose this election. So he swung for the fences with all the bile and grimace he could muster. Game Over, John McCain. You have beaten yourself.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Current Comedy, 10/7/08: Gotcha Soundbite Journalism
(1 comments) In the interest of the public good, I will devote the rest of this week's column to some of the old "gotcha soundbite journalism" Republicans so loathe. You know, where they say something that clearly reveals their vile character or evil intentions, and then some awful commie exploitive journalist catches them on an open mic. Republicans call this "gotcha soundbite journalism." I call it "truth hurts, don't it?"

Friday, October 3, 2008
Quick Take: Biden By Da Landslide
Biden gave what will undoubtedly be the liberals rallying cry quote: "Dick Cheney is the most dangerous vice president this country has ever had." That's a line that me and millions like me needed to hear to keep our faith.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Aussie Rudd Condemns American People While Senate Readies Tax Cuts
Every anti-Bush issue across the spectrum is embodied in this bailout. This is the outrageously diabolical Bush world paradigm cratering under its own weight of lies. I say let them collapse all the way back to zero like the credit houses did at the end of Fight Club. Know what the third rule of Fight Club? No, your profit margin is not more important than me feeding my family.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sheehan Challenges Fed with Impromptu Street Theatre Protest
(3 comments) On the steps of San Francisco's Federal Reserve Bank today four pm, Thursday Sept.25. San Francisco branch of the Fed is located at 101 Market St (Corner of Market and Spear).

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Current Comedy, 9/22/08: Every Conspiracy Theorist's Worst Nightmare: US
(3 comments) No need for elections when this kind of class warfare turns to shooting warfare. Call in the army and open the cages. This could make Hoover's Bonus Army debacle look like an Easter Egg roll.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
"Middle Class Thugs for Bush" Part 2
(2 comments) The middle class thugs among us give into the same impulse that makes some want to support our country's efforts when it says it intends to destroy another country even though we know it's wrong because all those anti-war protestors are just pissing them off.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Your Right to Remain Silent
(2 comments) For a good while now, the Repubs have fought some of the dirtiest campaigns this side of gonorrhea. Most every Dem lost election in recent times has had an October Surprise. This go-round who will be surprising whom? That depends on who is actually dealing the cards and I think we're going to find out soon.

Monday, August 25, 2008
Sheehan Campaign to Target the Air Waves
Cindy Sheehan is hoping to enlist the aid of liberals around the country to inundate San Francisco media outlets with phone calls and letters of support. Here's what you can do to help.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Tax-Avoiders are Un-American
(18 comments) Forget what you think your greedy little pocketbook is telling you. Not paying taxes is so very not-cool. If you are not doing your daily best to make America work, the least you can do is pay on your tab. Paying taxes is doing your part to show you actually care about America more than the $2.50 you spent on that yellow ribbon you bought a couple of years ago which is now so sun faded it's unreadable.

Monday, August 11, 2008
Bush the Uniter
(1 comments) The Suskind book could be Bush's tipping point. Bush like his friends, Olmert and Musharraf has made shambles of his country, created a war state where none need exist, alienated his own citizenry, repressed his political opposition often at the point of a gun and been implicated in so many shady dealings the trio should open a sunglasses outlet.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Impeachment Efforts Are Worth It
(5 comments) Are we there yet? Not even close. Is it still worth it? For many of us who have been running this marathon we thought we were entering the homestretch and found out we hadn't even made it to the starting gate yet. And yet, both on a personal level and as a citizen, I still say yes.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
One Week Later: Kucinich, Judiciary, Franks and the Whitehouse Silent
(9 comments) A one week follow-up on Judiciary "Non-impeachment" hearings shows much public interest, action brewing at the Judiciary, and the GOP and the Whitehouse still scrambling for a response.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Judiciary Backpedals on Reports and Transcripts from "Non-Impeachment" Hearings
(26 comments) Judiciary committee retracts key statements regarding followup activities on July 25th "Imperial Presidency." Readers are called on to contact the Judiciary to demand follow-up on the hearings.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Code Pink Collects Signatures for Kucinich's Congressional Record
(5 comments) Code Pink, working with Dennis Kucinich and Democracy In Action, offers its mailing list and website visitors a chance to sign the petition that is to be in the Congressional Record as a sample for the citizenry calling for impeachment. Your Chance to be in History!

Monday, July 28, 2008
Judiciary Committee to Announce Results of "Non-Impeachment" Hearing in 2 Weeks
(4 comments) House Judiciary Answers Questions on "Non-Impeachment Hearing" Follow-up.

Sunday, July 27, 2008
Notes from the Non-Impeachment Hearings
(33 comments) A not complete, nor particularly nonpartisan, summarization, with quotes (and occasional personal asides)of the full 6 hours of the July 25 Jucidiciary Committee's hearing on the "Imperial Presidency," AKA Kucinich's Impeachment Hearings.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
With Glee Bush Proclaims Self "World's Biggest Polluter"
Bush boasts he is "the world's biggest polluter" at G8 summit. The G8 is almost done with him, but we'll be cleaning up his aftermath for years.

Monday, June 23, 2008
Proud to be an American
(4 comments) When she says that she has ALWAYS been proud of America is Cindy McCain oblivious to the point of being brain dead, or is she simply lying?

Monday, June 16, 2008
A Patriot Would Have to Say Impeach
(3 comments) Call for Impeachment based on recent revelations from Senate Intelligence Committee and Scott McClelland