NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:08PM

WASTING YOUR VOTE

I would say that if you are voting in a close race, and your vote might make the difference between electing a completely corrupt Republican like Tom Delay or a delusional paranoid like Dick Cheney or a clueless spoiled brat like Rand Paul, then you should vote for the Democrat. You… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:07PM

BIG OIL

Let's not get confused here.

This debate is not about science or education or evidence or hypotheses or data.

It's about money, lots and lots of money.

Opposition to beliefs about global warming doesn't just spring up from nowhere. Global warming and especially public policies to mitigate global warm… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:07PM

AMERICA THE BOOBYFUL

During the Bush/Cheney years, the Republicans had their chance to show what their ideas meant in the real world.

The rich got richer, everybody else got left behind, the economy was destroyed by parasites from within, the Constitution was shredded, the leaders of the government used their positions a… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:06PM

GENERATION SCREWED

Sorry, boys and girls.

You won't have what your parents had.

We could get a job. If we finished college, we could get a better job.

Even high school graduates could get a decent-paying job, marry a lovely sweetheart, buy a decent house, and raise an adorable family.

Sorry, kids.

Your… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:05PM

THE MIDTERMS

I'm hoping that the midterm elections won't turn out as badly as some have predicted.

But the United States has already sliced its wrists and turned on the gas in the oven.

Before WWII, in the 1930's, the United States was nothing special.

After WWI, in the 1950's, the United States… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010 11:04PM

ELECTION RESULTS

There is one reason to expect the Democrats will do better than anyone expects right now.

Cell phones.

There is also a reason to expect that things will be as bad as the super-rich hope for.

Young voters.

Young voters don't have land lines or answer them when they ring. They… Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 12:29PM

SYMPATHY FOR THE OUTCASTS

I don't smoke, for two reasons.
 
For one thing, when I tried my first cigarette, at the age of ten, out in the woods, with a pack of matches and a box of Lucky Strikes that a friend had stolen from his mother's purse, I coughed out that first drag… Read full post »
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AUGUST 31, 2010 11:52AM

THE MELTDOWN

Hey, what's going on here?

Didn't we just suffer through a catastrophic meltdown caused by Republican corruption and thievery?

Enormous deficits directly caused by unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy and crony corporate pork barrel spending, relentless attacks on human rights and our own American civi… Read full post »
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AUGUST 28, 2010 11:17AM

CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON

Americans remember that we won World War II.

But nobody seems to remember how we did that.

First of all, we didn't do it alone. We were part of the Allied Forces. It was a serious strategic blunder for Japan to attack us at Pearl Harbor. We entered the war… Read full post »
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AUGUST 28, 2010 1:48AM

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

If you were old enough to remember the Great Depression, here's what you would remember.

After the stock market crash of 1929, our economy and the world economy went into a tailspin. Unfortunately, we had just elected a Republican in 1928, Herbert Hoover, who philosophically held fast to the notion t… Read full post »
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AUGUST 14, 2010 11:12PM

ISLAM

I'm not sure whether I met any Muslims before I met ...

Gee. I can't remember his name. He was Egyptian and he worked with me at FourPhase.

FourPhase has disappeared into corporate history, and so has he.

He was a good guy, very competent, very nice. He… Read full post »
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AUGUST 14, 2010 9:52PM

OMG

So the Obama Administration has followed the same course as the Nancy Pelosi Congress.

It was possible, and frankly fully justified, to impeach Bush and Cheney for war crimes.

We did, in fact, convict and punish others for waterboarding our own soldiers in WWII.

So Bush and Cheney and… Read full post »
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JULY 5, 2010 3:18AM

AMERICA

I was watching Fourth of July celebrations today.

We are a nation of diversity. There are Americans of many colors and from many cultures.

But are we a nation any more? What holds us together? It's not an unreasonable question. Our political system and our national discourse are deeply divided… Read full post »
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JUNE 16, 2010 4:52AM

We Are Doomed

Global warming worries started when we went to Venus in the 1970's. For a long time, people thought the permanent clouds of Venus might hide something lush and exotic - like Zsa Zsa Gabor and a bevy of tutu-clad honeys. But, alas, the first missions to Venus discovered a surface temperature… Read full post »

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JUNE 13, 2010 6:13PM

Linda Tripp Returns?

 
Do you remember Linda Tripp? She was a Bush 41 administration employee, who kept her Defense Department job into the Clinton administration. She met Monica Lewinsky when Lewinsky was transferred out of the White House to the Defense Department. Tripp then learned details of Lewinsky's sexual a… Read full post »
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AUGUST 28, 2008 11:06AM

GOODBYE SANTA

There's not really an argument about one fact: in the absence of other factors, increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere will raise the surface temperature of the earth. And we have been increasing the concentration of one greenhouse gas - carbon dioxide - since the Industrial… Read full post »
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AUGUST 23, 2008 12:17AM

WHY IRAQ?

There were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.

Years of effort - and human torture - have produced no evidence that Saddam Hussein was in possession or close to possessing nuclear weapons. And the "weapons of mass destruction" obfuscation, designed… Read full post »

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