Tea Party Election Hangover: 30ish Days Later!

[NOTE: I wrote this the week of the election, edited it about 10 times, decided it wasn't current enough anymore, and then, just today, decided fuckit, I'll post it anyhow. Enjoy! Post about WikiLeaks coming up next, but hopefully not a month late. ] So, the election here in the US was kind of a [...]

Teabaggers step things up…

Yessirre. That whole teabagging thing TOTALLY showed those spendthrift tax-and-spend bastards what was what, didn't it? So, rather than let their sleeper cells go back to napping, Fox News continues to rile up the ignorant masses for the seeming sole purpose of entertaining those of us with brains and a little education… Teabagging alone isn't [...]

April 15th is … No! Not "Tax Day"!

April 15th has been declared International "Hit Someone With A Newspaper" Day, and I have been asked to help promote it. Considering I still need to START my taxes here in the US, I suspect that's exactly what I'll feel like doing at some point. I expect I'll be celebrating. IMO, this is a much [...]

What a way to wake up

I've never felt giddy after a presidential election. As a matter of fact, I've never listened to an inaugural speech before; not even when "my candidate" won the first presidential election I had the opportunity to vote in. And after eight years of Clinton, I was so thoroughly disappointed in so many things he'd done [...]

2008, good riddance!

'Tis the season for top ten lists, and other unbearable retrospective articles about The Year That Was … and while I was rather tempted to write something along those lines, really, who needs to read another list of the best, or worst, or "most memorable" of anything? Sure, we could rehash the US presidential election, [...]