Glenn Beck is an idiot. That much is undeniable. His lies, his paranoia, his outright fear-mongering has been well documented. I thought that his saying “the President hates white people” would be the lowest he’d ever sink. I was wrong. In talking about the Occupy Wall Street protestors, the king of all idiots had this [...]
Politics
Earlier last week on Rod’s blog, taking a humorous look at another blogger’s 10 steps to disenfranchise most of America, Mitchell took umbrage at my objection to his calling for disenfranchising people who have their kids in public schools. His exact words were: People with children in public schools. People with children in the public [...]
Call this the law of unintended consequences to constant tax cuts and austerity measures by the GOP. Last night, in between approving city expenditures and other routine agenda items, the Topeka, Kansas City Council debated one rather controversial one: decriminalizing domestic violence. Here’s what happened: Last month, the Shawnee County District Attorney’s office, facing a [...]
When socialism comes to this country, it won’t be through the government. It’ll be through its corporations.
The difference in corporate media coverage of the Tea Party rallies versus the coverage of the Occupy Wall Street couldn’t be any more different. CNN, who hosted the recent “Tea Party GOP Debate”, and Fox, who endlessly promote everything Tea Party, trip over each other to give legitimacy to a movement that is primarily white, [...]
