Monthly Archives: October 2011

He was drunk. Or he has a brain tumor.

Associated Press photo Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and current Texas Gov. Rick Perry tangle at a Repugnican Tea Party presidential debate earlier this month in Las Vegas. Jesus fuck. I’d read Internet buzz that Rick Perry apparently was drunk … Continue reading

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The Ides of October

AFP photo Maybe “666” wasn’t the best photo op after all… (I mean, it’s pretty pathetic when Michele Bachmann is shown to maybe have been correct about anything.) Anyway, Repugnican Tea Party presidential wannabe Herman Cain has been accused of having sexually … Continue reading

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Why the rise of Cain

Associated Press photo Herman Cain rants and raves in Talladega, Alabama, yesterday. Recent polls have him at the top of the Repugnican Tea Party field, and indeed, as the photo below of him campaigning in Alabama yesterday apparently demonstrates, many … Continue reading

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U.S. now produces only corpses

Associated Press photo This is all that the crumbling American empire produces and exports these days: death and destruction. Gooooo USA!  A column that Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald posted yesterday is pretty spot-on about what the United States of America has become. Greenwald notes that … Continue reading

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Cops’ right-wing bias is a problem

Image from Joe. My. God. Yes, indeed, we have a problem of right-wing bias within law enforcement agencies across the nation. (Don’t even get me started on the right-wing bias within the bloated-beyond-belief U.S. military that our tax dollars make possible.) While … Continue reading

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It’s just a bunch of damn hippies!

Reuters and Associated Press photos These images taken at recent Occupy Wall Street protests in several North American cities show, I think, the diversity of the Occupy Wall Street movement — the true not-so-silent-anymore majority. Not a tea-bag-laden tri-corner hat … Continue reading

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Cry us a river, Barry!

AFP photo President Hopey-Changey’s apparent response to Occupy Wall Street is that we should feel sorry for him and stick with him, even though he allied himself with the Wall Street weasels years ago. Predictably, after having pissed and shat … Continue reading

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Notes on the nationwide occupations

Reuters photos These are my kind of people: The powers that be won’t admit it, but prolonged anti-plutocratic protests in our nation’s cities like these (the photos above were taken today in New York City) embarrass our nation’s plutocrats in the eyes of … Continue reading

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Will Herb Cain Steele the 2012 Repugnican nomination?

Reuters photo Pizza guy Herman Cain pontificates at last night’s Repugnican Tea Party debate in New Hampshire. I didn’t watch the debate — I’m not a masochist — but I understand that the highlight of the debate was Michele “With Eyes … Continue reading

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They’re ALL cultists

Associated Press photo Repugnican Tea Party presidential aspirant Mitt Romney, fresh from having his Mormonism deemed a non-Christian “cult” by a backer of “real” “Christian” Rick Perry, assures “values voters” in Washington, D.C., this weekend that he hates the same people … Continue reading

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