I'm not talking about the ignorant rebels who've been co-opted by corporate Republican interests and convinced to vote against their own best interests.  I'm talking about those Tea Party thinkers who know that our government is run by and for big business (not "the people"), and would like to do something about it ( Read more... )

The sirens blared for a minute yesterday morning, still tested monthly on the first Wednesday of the month.  My mother has no idea what to do if they go off.  She says she supposes she'd turn on the radio and wait for instructions.  I remember when there was a real feeling of fear, here.  We thought we'd be the first ones to get bombed.  This town ( Read more... )

I'm reading an article in New York magazine (April 7-20, 2014) about the color of Obama's presidency, and the first thing mentioned is the Bill Maher show in which Bill Kristol was frankly upset at him for saying that the rise of the Tea Party was due to racism. My liberal friends here in Oregon, and the ones that live in the Rockies and the South ( Read more... )

Just yesterday I finally stopped ignoring the Middle East and looked up a few things. Like who is Shia and who is Sunni. And who has nukes and where. And what exactly an Islamist is. It was....a useful exercise. Anyone else out there taking an interest in this juncture of history? I'm ready to be educated ( Read more... )

So, rage against duly elected government is patriotic -- quintessentially American -- whereas rage against multi-national shareholder-accountable corporations is anti-American. OK, gotcha.
--Jon Stewart

I didn't know she was this bad.... but apparently the social conservatives really like her.

NYT/CBS poll on mood of Americans: we're cranky, displeased
( notes )

( rumbling and rambling )

( midterm election 2010 thoughts )

If you read here then you heard about Rand Paul's media disaster. Now is it Sharron Angle's turn. She had a website in which she called for the dissolution of many popular parts of our government including the Department of Education. Then she won the Republican primary in Nevada. The night after she won her entire website had been pulled, but ( Read more... )