December 19, 2010

What a Sad, Pathetic Man




Can you imagine if this flip-flopping douchebag had become President?

December 12, 2010

Hey! It's the 10th anniversary of "a classic example of judicial activism, not judicial restraint"



Motherfuck. It's been 10 years since Bush v. Gore. You remember good ol' Bush v. Gore, don't you? That was the decision that broke America. It gave us 8 years of Bush/Cheney. It gave us the illegal war in Iraq. It gave us the Patriot Act. It gave us torture. It gave us the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. It gave us the Justice Roberts' activist Supreme Court. It gave us a housing bubble. It gave us a recession. And it fucked Democracy in the ass.

Good times.

December 08, 2010

((°J°))



Excerpts from John Lennon's last print interview conducted three days before he was shot to death on this day, 30 years ago, can be heard here. Sometimes I still can't believe he's dead. Same with Joe Strummer. Life is crazy.

This is Funny, You Should Read the Whole Thing:



Sorkin the former Cokehead vs. Palin the once and always Snowbilly:
"Unless you've never worn leather shoes, sat upon a leather chair or eaten meat, save your condemnation."

You're right, Sarah, we'll all just go fuck ourselves now.

The snotty quote was posted by Sarah Palin on (like all the great frontier women who've come before her) her Facebook page to respond to the criticism she knew and hoped would be coming after she hunted, killed and carved up a Caribou during a segment of her truly awful reality show, Sarah Palin's Alaska, broadcast on The-Now-Hilariously-Titled Learning Channel.

(snip)

I'm able to make a distinction between you and me without feeling the least bit hypocritical. I don't watch snuff films and you make them. You weren't killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing animals. I can make the distinction between the two of us but I've tried and tried and for the life of me, I can't make a distinction between what you get paid to do and what Michael Vick went to prison for doing. I'm able to make the distinction with no pangs of hypocrisy even though I get happy every time one of you faux-macho shitheads accidentally shoots another one of you in the face.

So I don't think I will save my condemnation, you phony pioneer girl. (I'm in film and television, Cruella, and there was an insert close-up of your manicure while you were roughing it in God's country. I know exactly how many feet off camera your hair and make-up trailer was.)
You can read the rest here.

December 05, 2010

What Else Would $60 Billion Buy?

By DAVID LEONHARDT
(in today's New York Times)
$60 Billion: The approximate amount that extending the Bush tax cuts on income above $250,000 a year — which Congress seems on the verge of doing — will cost a year, in inflation-adjusted terms. On average, the affluent households that benefit from these cuts will save $25,000 annually. What else might that $60 billion a year buy?

•As much deficit reduction as the elimination of earmarks, President Obama’s proposed federal pay freeze, a 10 percent cut in the federal work force and a 50 percent cut in foreign aid — combined.

•A tripling of federal funding for medical research.

•Universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds, with relatively small class sizes.

•A much larger troop surge in Afghanistan, raising spending by 60 percent from current levels.

•A national infrastructure program to repair and upgrade roads, bridges, mass transit, water systems and levees.

•A 15 percent cut in corporate taxes.

•Twice as much money for clean-energy research as suggested by a recent bipartisan plan.

•Free college, including room and board, for about half of all full-time students, at both four- and two-year colleges.

•A $500 tax cut for all households.
(What to do about the Bust tax cuts should be a no-brainer for both the Democrats and the American people but unfortunately the Democrats' and my beloved Obama's lack of spine and leadership seems to be more potent than whatever brain power they may have locked away in their little heads. If the Republicans (and their millionaire/billionaire friends) win this battle, it's official: Americans prefer to be bullied and treated like idiotic children rather than be talked to and treated like adults.)