Monthly Archives: February 2011

Poll shows Walker’s overreach

Associated Press photo Embattled Repugnican Tea Party Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin has the support of only a third of the nation in his attempt at union-busting, according to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll. Politico reports today on a … Continue reading

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Worst. Oscars. Ever?

AFP and Associated Press photos The writers of this year’s Oscars ceremony couldn’t even make Anne Hathaway and James Franco in drag funny, and Melissa Leo’s accidental use of the f-word while accepting her best supporting actress Oscar was the … Continue reading

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Plutocrats have declared class war

Wisconsin Repugnican Tea Party Gov. Scott Walker — brought to you by (and bought off by) the Billionaire Brothers – has claimed that his legislation that attempts to destroy Wisconsin’s public-sector labor unions isn’t about destroying Wisconsin’s public-sector labor unions. (It’s simply and only about the … Continue reading

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The Conversation (starring Scott Walker and ‘David Koch’)

Reuters photo Power-drunk Repugnican Tea Party Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker gives what he called a “fireside chat” the night before a damning recording of him believing that he was speaking on the telephone with his billionaire campaign contributor David Koch … Continue reading

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The art of protest is dead

Well, apparently not in Wisconsin, and very apparently not in the Middle East, but here in Sacramento, California, and throughout much if not most of the rest of the nation, I surmise, it is. Last night I attended the solidarity-with-the-workers-of-Wisconsin … Continue reading

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‘Tea Party’ traitors want ALL of us to be serfs to their feudal masters

Associated Press photo A smug, deluded, treasonous Glenn Beck wannabe (left) argues with a pro-labor-union protester (right) in Madison, Wisconsin, on the fifth day of pro-labor protests there. The young wingnut and his ilk expect all of us of the … Continue reading

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Labor-union members: the new Jews

Associated Press photos Little Egypt? Thousands of Wisconsinites protest, inside and outside the state’s Capitol in Madison, the plutocratic assault on labor-union members by their state’s plutocratic Repugnican politicians. The state’s Repugnican governor stupidly has threatened to call on the National … Continue reading

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On blogging fatigue and revolution

Of course, what I have is more like life fatigue, but this is a blog, so we’ll call it blogging fatigue. I blog when I am moved to blog. I don’t believe in blogging on a schedule. I can’t see … Continue reading

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Enough with the sex scandals already

Reuters photo Christopher Lee shirtless! No, not that one. This one: Associated Press image (from the U.S. House of Representatives) Don’t get me wrong; I’m happy to see any Repugnican politician bite the dust, but something feels at least somewhat wrong about … Continue reading

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Make Moobie’s death wish come true

Associated Press and Reuters photos Egyptian protesters hang dictator Hosni Mubarak in effigy in Cairo today. To me these don’t look like people who want Mubarak to hang around for another several months. Embattled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak proclaims that … Continue reading

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