Friends, in our country the “right” side of the political spectrum is full of little Moamar Al-Qaddafi’s. Take the matter of former Kansas Attorney General, Phillip Kline. He abused the power of office to serve idiotic but widely shared, religious belief by illegally prying into the affairs of Dr. Tiller’s abortion practice, leading to that […]
I am not a mid-eastern fanatic to start chanting “Death to the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch.” The nation would surely be better off without them, but I don’t wish the Grim Reaper to take them before their natural expiration dates. Instead, I call down unseen Furies upon them. May they experience sudden-onset dementia and crippling […]
No, this is not about the losing struggle of convertible cars against sudden bad weather. This is about the war being waged under myriad disguises by a few multi-billionaires from positions of virtual impregnability. They have been named many times, along with their hired minions, sympathetic supporters and self-interested hangers-on. We know who they are. […]
Something about the way “conservatives” think tends to make problems insoluable and issues irresolvable. It has to do with staying boxed in simple assumptions. Asian habits of thought could help such folks. One boxed assumption is, everything is one way or the other; never both. No matter that a coin has three (or more) sides, […]
1. Gilded Travesty? Does Piers Morgan’s disgusting display of exorcism show us the level of journalism the public may expect of his new show? The alleged “evil spirit” possession of a middle-aged mother, augmented by a priest who intoned Latin prayers, commands and imprecations, aided by another gentleman who editorially assured Piers and the viewers […]
We really must feel sorry for poor Glenn Beck. Nightly — or more often if you treat yourself to his radio program — we are witness to his repressed experience of what can only be a traumatic disharmony between his superstition-babbling bubble of a mind and the fact of his bodily symmetry. One could suppose […]