Monthly Archives: September 2011
Wingnut Hypocrisy: Part CLXXXIX
Pat Robertson, a former presidential candidate who never served as a mayor or governor, now says that only big city mayors and governors are qualified to be president. The assertion is rottenly specious on its face – obviously serving just … Continue reading
Filed under 2012 U.S. Election, Wingnuts
The Terror Industrial Complex
Great story from CBC’s The National about the insane amount of money that has been spent post-9/11 on the secretive intelligence and policing apparatus to make America safe from demented cave-dwellers in Afghanistan, inept lunatics with explosive underwear, and suchlike … Continue reading
Filed under U.S. Economy
The Joy of Destruction
A short animated film by Xaver Xylophon & Laura Junger celebrating “the human drive to destroy and the absurd entertaining value that’s attached to it.”
Between Rhetoric & Reality
In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, President Obama told a Labour Day rally in Detroit that there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and many construction workers … Continue reading
Filed under 2012 U.S. Election, Obama
It Felt Like a Kiss
And now for something completely different… This “documentary” by British filmmaker Adam Curtis is a story about America and how, starting in 1959, it set out not only to remake the world, but our lives and imaginations. Writing in The … Continue reading
Filed under American Tales, Films
Shrill Bitch Alert!
Video of Sarah Palin squawking at speaking to “supporters” of a newly formed group called “Tea Party of America” today at a rain-soaked rally in Iowa… and covered LIVE by Sun News! Go figure. In a Godly portent worthy of … Continue reading
Filed under US Politics, Wingnuts
Lifestyles of the “Job Creators”
Donald Trump has a winsome spokesmodel show off all the creature comforts of his luxurious new jet… Isn’t it nice to know that the U.S. Department of Transportation uses taxpayer money to provide interest-free loans for the purchase of corporate … Continue reading
Filed under U.S. Economy
Do Teabaggers Read Books?
Well, not that much, apparently. At least if sales figures for the latest raft of books penned by Tea Party icons are any indication of that group’s appetite fer book learnin’… Despite widespread media hype, TroubleMaker, by vacuous non-witch and … Continue reading
Filed under US Politics
Trudeau in Winnipeg
Justin Trudeau was in town yesterday to help launch the provincial election campaign of Dr. Jon Gerrard and his hapless Liberals (that, unfortunately, will most likely be completely obliterated next month). When asked about talk of a merger with the … Continue reading
Filed under 2011 Manitoba Election, Liberals
