I can’t help but notice a strange numbness in the American public. I see it locally and I see it in the media, an almost fatigue from hearing a steady stream of bad news. We sure have had a lot of it these days. China is on the rise, U.S. is in decline, Iraq is a mess, our President turned out to be the dumb ass we all hoped he wasn’t (that goes for all Americans) and now he wants to go to war with Iran. The world feels like it’s inching towards the brink with no certainty, no great glorious cause or purpose and now out of nowhere, another natural disaster, possibly caused by climate change, the Southern California fires burns across the major media. It’s enough to send anyone to the loony bin.

There has been a serious decline in the quality of the American machine. Even our celebrities, which themselves are of a poorer quality than in …

A new CBO (Congressional Budget Office) report estimates the projected cost of the Iraq War, assuming we stay till 2017, may reach as high as $2.4 Trillion! That’s a cost of $8,000 per man, women and child living in the United States. Higher than the cost, adjusted for inflation, than the Vietnam War!

So when someone tells you the war doesn’t matter. First tell them to look at this webpage, showing casualties of U.S. soldiers nearing 4,000 and civilians well over 100,000 confirmed, then tell them it will cost them $8,000 for every person in their family. That is the equivalent, by the way, of a $400 a month health insurance plan for 20 years.

Republicans like Bush love to spend money, they just don’t like spending it on the health and prosperity of the nation’s taxpaying citizens. They prefer to spend the money on tanks, bullets and killing the citizens of another nation. If Republicans are so good at business, you’d think they’d know a good investment when they saw one. Spend the money on healthier, happier, harder working citizens, or blow it all on …

Over sized mouth piece, Rush “to Judgment” Limbaugh, is, to be frank, as useful to the American discourse as a large bag of hot air. I have called him “the rash” in the past and the more I think about it, the more I see that this analogy is entirely accurate.

In past weeks the Rash lashed out at soldiers who spoke out against the war, calling them “phony soldiers”. Senate Democrats jumped on the opportunity and wrote him a letter (wow, sock it to em Dems [sarcasm]). A letter the bloated loud mouth auctioned off on EBay for a hefty sum, proceeds as you might expect, went to some right leaning charity that provides scholarship funds to the children of, specifically, Marines and Federal Law enforcement personnel (whatever that means) who are killed in the line of duty. The rumor mill has not been cranking out stories of typical Republican crookedness in regards to this charity, so we can give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume they’re not funneling the money into some sort of slush fund to …

There’s a rising tide of bitterness these days reverberating out of the right. I guess that’s what happens when your movement has failed and has nothing to show for it.

First off,
the fair and balanced team at Fox News unleashed a flurry of bitterness over Al Gore’s recent Nobel Prize win, going as far to equate the awarding of the prize itself to other controversial winners such as Yassar Arrafat. Sean Hannity went even further, saying he’d give the Nobel Prize back, if it were awarded to him, later saying he’d then give it to U.S. soldiers. Lol

Uhm, Mr. Hannity, I don’t think you’ll ever have to worry about what to do with a Nobel Prize, although, if the Nobel committee ever lost its mind and handed out a Nobel for pathetic yammering of regurgitated mental mush, which you may or may not win, but if you did win, then I can think of a few places where you can stick it.

Seriously, he said it. Check out what Jon Stewart …

Virginia is becoming a blue state! Well that’s all right-wing divisive political strategy to begin with. However, by their own play book, they’re one election away from losing the grand old capital of the Confederacy to reasonably centrist Democratic candidates, or as Repubs call em, Communist, Left-Wing, Liberal, radicals.

Former governor and popular Democrat Mark Warner is so far ahead in the polls that it would take a force of macaca proportions to bring him down. Since this is the state that brought you George Allen and the great macaca collapse of 2006, I wouldn’t rule anything out.

If Virginia becomes a blue state, certainly the entire strategy of the Republican divisive culture war will begin to erode even further. While they play heavily on the heartland, their effectiveness in the South borrows from political plays first used immediately after the Civil War. The fear of government angle, was used for 100 years to scare poor white Southerners into fearing the big bad federal government from coming into their home counties and telling them that they couldn’t segregate a …

You know it’s funny, when I was a kid I hated to watch the morning shows because they were too newsy. Today I don’t watch them because they are garbage. All news has been confined to the first hour, the early 7am run, and that hour seems to get smaller and smaller with each passing day. Today I awoke to the first hour of Good Morning America with little expectations, and was disappointed still. They spent almost 12 minutes on the shooting in Cleveland (a far cry from the coverage given to similar tragedies in whiter schools) and less than 30 seconds on an insurgent attack on a U.S. base. Then they moved on to lighter fare. Did you know that a story like David Hasselhoff’s alcoholic relapse can make national network news these days? I mean as if Britney Spear’s custody battle was useless enough, now we have more information being piped into our brains with the nutritional value of a Twinkie.

Slow news day? Hmmm, let’s check:
Aside from the barely …

I would like to kick off our new rant section with a quick thought. In last night’s debate, John McCain, when asked about why the polls suggest Americans prefer Democrats to handle the economy, responded with a list of Bush’s failures. He topped it all off with a heavy emphasis on spending, saying “We’ve got to get wasteful spending under control.”

I may be pointing out the obvious here, it just really grinds my gears when Republicans talk about spending like it means something. It’s such a ho hum issue. I mean, I believe in the virtues of a balanced budget, but come now, I don’t have trouble sleeping at night thinking about quarterly fiscal reports from the General Accounting Office of Congress.

Don’t get me wrong, good things begin with a tidy financial house. That being said, the guys who talk about controlling spending the most ran the surplus Clinton made into the ground. So if it’s such a problem, repeal Bush’s tax-cuts for the wealthy and end the trillion dollar war. Problem solved. But to say that spending is the biggest problem facing America today? What a …

The Era of Reagan is over!

Well it’s finally official. Break out your Champaign bottles and shake them till it hurts. The Republican juggernaut has broken down, and they are in such a state of confusion, they are facing an ideological crisis that is comparable to the intellectual collapse of the Democrats in the ‘70s.

A few days ago, well known conservative NY Times writer David Brooks, you know, that guy with the glasses and the annoying ties, wrote an article called “The Republican Collapse”. This comes one year after Tucker Carlson, from the more centrist wing of the Republican party, wrote a similarly themed article, although far less sympathetic. I took the opportunity after Carlson’s article to declare an official pendulum swing. I did not base that declaration solely on Carlson, the sea had changed, Carlson was merely the first sailor to jump ship, and therefore, a strong indicator that the ship was sinking. Today, on the heals of Brook’s article, we see not only the ship is sinking, it’s capsized!

Brooks’ public acknowledgment of the intellectual collapse of the Right, is long overdue. We over here …