Report your neighbor, before he reports you

It is no doubt seared, just seared, into your memory how the fascist Bush regime instituted a program to monitor traitors who dared to criticize Bush policy. Recall that the White House even set up an email address to be used for submitting anonymous reports on dissenters and their activities.
What’s that you say? It [...]

Every picture tells a story

The only reasonable interpretation of this Congressional Budget Office graph of the projected budget deficit is that Obama inherited the deficit from Bush.

Obama does listen to his critics

President Obama has been listening to his critics. The LA Times, on the President’s 3/24 speech:
Gone from the presidential podium were the ubiquitous, much-noted teleprompters that gave rise to embarrassing suggestions that Obama needs to be fed his words to avoid Special Olympics or Nancy Reagan gaffes. In the twin teleprompters’ place? A [...]

Chains we can believe in

During my senior year in college I needed a social sciences course to meet graduation requirements. I decided to make the best of a bad thing, and signed up for introductory women’s studies, on the theory that it might be a good way to meet chicks. The class was a mass lecture, maybe 90 [...]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 of the Constitution of the United States: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed“. Unless, of course, it suits the whim of Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker Pelosi’s wants to craft legislation specifically to punish AIG executives. She states
Because they could not use sound judgment in [...]

Universal health care will not cover your dog either