This entry marks my last journal post on this site, and the start of new ventures. I've been compiling stories about the lives of refugees over the past year and will post these on lostgenerations.blogspot.com. Thanks to all my online friends for letting me bounce my rants, and a few individuals who know me and my quirky sense of humor. Wish you ( Read more... )

Here's White House Press Secretary Tony Snow spewing his venom to a frustrated press corps. Iran is trying to undermine democracy in iraq and elsewhere, he says ( Read more... )

It seems like that long grueling election was just yesterday, but a whole month has passed! Now that the news of victory has sunk in, my optimism has been replaced with caution. Mostly the democrats have been preoccupied gloating, cheering and treating their wins like Monday night football ( Read more... )

No one has taken me up on my fried chicken bet. So either everyone is on a health food kick, or no one is up for getting these shitheads out of office. I'm sure not all Republicans are child molesters like Rep. Foley, but they've certainly exceeded the level of hypocrisy that I'm willing to tolerate ( Read more... )

Once you are parodied on Saturday Night Live, then please recognize there is no turning back for you. Just admit you are a blubbering hillbilly redneck and move on with your life. Stop trying to pretend you are this guy with class and integrity after burning crosses on black people's homes while wearing a white sheet on your head ( Read more... )

Mucaca is a type of monkey, for those of you who are have been deprived of derogatory terminology ( Read more... )

Just how disorganized are the democrats? I first signed up with my local branch as a volunteer in July. I emailed two of the organizers and posted my photo and a message saying I was looking forward to volunteering with the local party. I never heard back so I emailed several people in the state office. I never heard back so I filled out a ( Read more... )

My overseas experience also reinforced the fact that I must be living in a fascist country. Why do other countries get to have political parties and functioning governments while all we get are right-wing fruitcakes ( Read more... )

This journal was inspired by my travels to the Netherlands and Belgium over the past year. The months I spent in Belgium last summer, and across Europe, were the first time I traveled overseas on my own. I was fascinated by the political unification of so many different cultures, languages and economies. A defining feature was a general dislike of ( Read more... )