Lefties tired of being demonized by the Fundamentalist Fringe should get religion.
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Nobody wants to pay more taxes???
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This is the third in a series. Prior installments are here and here. As the true extent of the selling out of Americans’ best interests on health care becomes clear – and it is nothing short of absolute – many have suggested that the time is now for an alliance of the disaffected. The...
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Big Media has become increasingly adept at making government and politics - what was once known as "current affairs" - into something different. Not something to be questioned and examined poked and prodded and held to account, but an entertainment.
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The big problem I have with organized religion is that, like the Conservative movement, it relies on fear to succeed. You know, Praise the Lord - but just in case your heathen ass is too far gone for that to help, fill the collection basket, too. Yesterday I wrote about the American Family Radio Network’s wacky,...
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Bring me your coconuts/Bring me your sweet mangos too/Bring me your papayas/I’ll tell you what I brought for you/Syphilis and religion… -Graham Parker So I’m driving along today in central Ohio, doing a little station surfing, and I find something called the American Family Radio Network. I’ve landed on it before, and have usually run...
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I’ve been playing hooky in California for the past week and a half. Oh yeah, and getting committed. Shari and I tied the knot – to the extent that we’re both willing, that is, until this country joins the 21st Century and recognizes the right of any couple to marry. I’ll remain here a...
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Amid all the coverage and criticism of Barack Obama’s detailed vetting of those seeking work in his administration, one thing was mostly overlooked – and passed off as meaningless, complete with derisive laughter - on the few occasions anyone was brave enough to point it out. Say what you will about POLITICO, but they sure got...
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I’ve begun writing here and at The Seminal about the sense of boycotting elections. (See the opening installments here, here, and here.) Demofrantics (those who shamelessly toe the party line, no matter how ridiculous it gets), call that throwing the election to our opponents, just as they have since Nader in 2000 (I know, big fuckin’...
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[Note: I've edited this post a little in hopes that now, even an idiot can understand it. Apparently some mistook the quoted matter in the post as Iacocca's actual words. THEY ARE NOT. Which anyone with basic Internet and reading skills might have understood from the original post -  had they bothered to actually read it. C'mon,...
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