Entries from October 2008

October 31, 2008

Gee Dubya’s gift to the left

Reuters and Associated Press photos
Which one will prove to have awakened the sleeping leftist giant the most — “President” George W. Bush or President Barack Obama? And isn’t Repugnican John McCainosaurus making “socialism” and liberalism look pretty fucking good if “socialism” and liberalism are the alternative to the nightmare of the past eight years? (Um, yeah…) Thanks, old dude, for [...]

October 31, 2008

Socialist funnies

OK, so I want to experiment with WordPress’ graphics abilities. My blog, when it was on Salon Blogs, was fairly graphic intensive, as I find nothing but text to be rather boring.
Ted Rall is probably my favorite editorial cartoonist. I like Tom Tomorrow, too, but if I had to pick between the two it would [...]

October 31, 2008

Why here, why now

So I’m a refugee from Salon Blogs, which uses the (apparently not very popular) Radio Userland blog platform.
Salon.com stopped supporting its blogs years ago and finally stopped allowing new Salon Blogs to be created in 2006.
When it started its blogs, Salon.com promised us bloggers support and even some promotion. This was short-lived. For a little while, [...]