Friday, June 18, 2010

The Parochial School Boys Agree!

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At last there is something MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and lunatic fringe wingnut Glenn Beck agree on: hatred of the World Cup, football specifi...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

GOP Stands for GULF OF (BRITISH) PETROLEUM

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JOE BARTON KNEELS BEFORE BP: It didn’t take long. The American people, and even some Republicans are appalled and ashamed at the spectacle o...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

BP LAUNCHES NEW PR CAMPAIGN AFTER "APOLOGY" FAUX PAS

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BP Chairman of the Board Carl-Henric Svanberg caused a furor with his fake apology: “I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are...

President's Arm-Twisting Gets Results for Gulf Residents

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Credit where credit is due. President Obama got a big win today and went a long way toward ameliorating the economic plight of the Gulf stat...

Talk About Condescending Arrogance, BP Chairman: "We Care About the Small People"

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Unbelievable, how tone-deaf this insulting foreign imperial bastard is! BP Chairman Carl Henric Svanberg said, on leaving the White House me...

Day 58: We Needed a Populist And got an Elitist

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President Obama’s first Oval Office address to the nation was disappointing on so many levels that one has to wonder, again, if he gets it a...
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Dedicated to Rachel Maddow and World Cup Neophytes (or Snobs) Everywhere

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On Monday’s show, Rachel introduced her World Cup segment: “So traditionally, America is less psyched than the rest of the planet about the...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Pic of the Day: After U.S. Game, Brits Finally Make Their Mark in South Africa

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England’s star forward Wayne Rooney (right) and teammate relieve themselves between rounds of golf after their disastrous World Cup 2010 deb...

Best World Cup Headline (So Far) As Brit Tabloids Feast Mercilessly on Goalkeeper: “HAND OF CLOD”

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This is a clever take on Dieguito Maradona’s hand ball goal which knocked England out of the 1986 World Cup and went viral throughout the w...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

Tea Farty Is a BLAST!

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The latest website to mock the Teabaggers’ HOT AIR, complete with orifice-appropriate sound effects is very, very funny … Here ‘tis “ retwee...
Friday, June 11, 2010

World Rivalries, Cultural Diversity, and USA v. England, a World Cup Match With a New Complexion

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Black. Paint it black. Black as night, black as coal. Black as oil . This will not be the first time that politics has intruded upon the wor...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Chicago Blackhawks Hoist Stanley Cup: Congratulations!

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It's been a looong time coming ... so goes the song; not since 1961 have the Blackhawks won Hockey's most coveted trophy. It was a g...

Blanche Lincoln's Survival: A Harbinger of the One-Party State?

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Hardball’s Chris Matthews truculently declared it a “crushing defeat” for progressives. In an election fraught with Southern-style electione...
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Monday, June 07, 2010

DAY 49 - Outside the Box Solutions to Oil Disaster Cleanup: BP, Government MIA

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Rachel Maddow was on site in Louisiana Friday night, reporting on the utter devastation visited by BP on American shores and territorial wat...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

DAS CAPITAL - 21st Century BP-Style

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Lyapis Trubetskoy - Capital (with English subtitles) Lyapis Trubetskoy/Ляпис Трубецкой | MySpace Music Videos Lyapis Trubetskoy (Russian: Л...
Friday, June 04, 2010

Quotable: WMD in South Africa?

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“Technology is not everything. Scientists came up with the atom bomb; it doesn’t mean we should have invented it.” Marcus Hahnemann, reserve...
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Thursday, June 03, 2010

Israel’s Stupidity

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Imagine what would happen if someone like Israeli Prime Minister “Bibi” Netanyahu was managing the U.S. naval blockade during the Cuban Miss...
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

When Love is Never Having to Say You’re Sorry, What’s the Flip Side?

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If the impacted Gulf states had a BP billion for every time its colonial Maharajah CEO Tony Hayward opened his mouth to apologize for somet...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Sister Sarah Was Projecting, Here's Your Chance Rich!

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ravish [ˈrævɪʃ] vb (tr) 1. (often passive) to give great delight to; enrapture 2. to rape 3. Archaic to carry off by force O Sarah, I think ...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day Tribute

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Today as we honor the military service of Americans who died from all wars, we should heed the voices of those who have experienced first-ha...