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When the California Supreme Court struck down the ban on same-sex marriage, many people thought the Republicans might use it as a wedge issue to get out the vote to try and get McCain elected. So I...
View ArticleI Can Haz America Back?
I can't write anything that hasn't already been written more eloquently, more passionately by someone else, both here and elsewhere, about the passage of FISA. So, instead of a rant, a request:Someone...
View ArticleAbout Those ${N} Houses...
(For some value of N...)At the risk of appearing a Concern Troll(TM), I would be careful about over-playing McCain's embarrassment of housing riches. There's a risk it could backfire...
View ArticleHow Do You Win a Battle of Wits With an Unarmed Opponent?
The scale of hypocrisy evidenced by the "values Republicans" reached undreamed-of heights over the past couple of weeks. Let's review:The Authoritarian/Right-Wing Noise Machine(TM) was touting the...
View ArticleFed to Allow Banks to Gamble Depositors' Money
The Financial Times (login required) is reporting that the Fed is about to let the banks double down on Big Shitpile with your money:The Fed added that it was suspending a rule that normally prohibits...
View ArticleWon't Tell Us Where The Money Went? Fine...
By now everyone (who reads this site) knows that the Fed, in the guise of Vice Chairman Donald Kohn, is refusing to answer direct questions from Congress about where $1.2E+12 in taxpayer money and...
View ArticleUniversal Marriage
As gays and lesbians slowly acquire marriage rights across the nation, I find myself more often confronted with the term "Gay Marriage" in the headlines, and becoming less and less comfortable with it....
View ArticleWhat Glenn Beck et al Don't Want You to Talk About
This diary originally started as a rambling screed about how right-wing extremists are still driving the narrative, no longer with genuine -- and mercifully transient -- Administration authority...
View ArticleOh Noes! We're Surrounded!!
Yesterday I published a diary about how we're still letting the lunatic fringe drive our narrative and consume our brain cycles with this whole "teabagging" joke, and posted a short list of the things...
View ArticleI Defy You to Give Me a Reason to Pay Attention to Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck is a bad sideshow act. If he were at an actual carnival, you would have long since moved on to the Tilt-A-Whirl. There is now a world shortage of bat-shit that could be put to better use...
View ArticleAren't Democrats The Party of 'No'?
I was thinking about this in the shower this morning (always dangerous), when it occurred to me that perhaps it's the Democrats who have been the Party of 'No'...
View ArticleWhy Cheney Tortured
Once again, we seem to be letting the Authoritarian (nee Republican) malefactors control the news cycle and the terms of the debate. We are allowing people of low moral character to attempt to tell us...
View ArticlePublic Election Funding: Some Stupid Questions
There have been a couple of diaries of late making the case against corporations and corporatism, pointing out that, as long as unholy sums of money are required to wage and win election campaigns,...
View ArticleCNN Revisionism: Blagojevich "Resigned"
Disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is still hip-deep in the investigation surrounding his rackteering and corruption that ended his political career. It would seem he's getting some...
View ArticleDebt Collector Builds Fake Courtroom, "Subpoenas" Debtors
The Diary Police can hang it; this needs to be watched to ensure the proper outcome takes place.It seems that a debt collection agency in Erie, PA -- Unicredit America, Inc. -- constructed a fake...
View ArticleNoteFinders!
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View ArticleWe Got Yer "Shared Sacrifice" Right Here
California has enormous fiscal problems, but no one can accuse Governor Jerry Brown of personally contributing to them.Brown flew in from Sacramento to Burbank airport today as part of his first...
View ArticleArpaio Headliner at Anti-Obama Fundraiser in Montara, CA
"Sheriff" Joe Arpaio is apparently sanguine enough in his recent thrilling victory over an unarmed chicken farmer that he will be defil^H^H^H^H^Hvisiting Montara, CA, tomorrow (2011-03-24) as one of...
View ArticleAP Carries Water for Gov. Walker
An AP story appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle's home page, covering Wisconsin Judge Sumi's restraining order prohibiting implementation of Gov. Walker's anti-labor legislation.The graf that made...
View ArticleAmerican Bob
Bob "MovieBob" Chipman has earned a respectable reputation as a movie and video game critic. His weekly movie review, Escape to The Movies, is released every Friday on The Escapist Magazine. (Warning:...
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