I don’t know what causes a child to develop skepticism. I do know it can serve a person well in travels through life and that we have far too few skeptics in America. One of the dictionary definitions of a skeptic is “a person who maintains a doubting attitude toward values, plans, statements, or the [...]
That was the name of a punk band that played at Sigma Nu during my freshman year at U of O, way back in 1982, and at the time I didn’t yet see that America was becoming that; I was still a Republican, after all. We went from the Great Society to the Punitive Society [...]
I’ve been working up at the mushroom building again this week, and couldn’t help but notice that dozens of dump trucks were descending a nearby road every day, carrying loads of soil and rock, so I decided it was time for CHNN to do some investigative work, especially since I was already undercover in my [...]
Well, the teabaggers “descended” on Washington today, in part courtesy of 40 buses chartered by something called “Americans for Prosperity,” and of course having been heavily promoted on Fox. A “crowd” the police estimated at 3000-3500 came waddling in to generally make asses of themselves, invading the wrong offices, carrying strikingly dumb and offensive signs, [...]
Since their policies are so confoundingly difficult to sell, the right has come up with alternative meanings for patriotic, all-American sounding words, the better to fool the rubes and refashion themselves as something they decidedly are not. When the only beneficiaries of the policies you espouse are the super-rich, polluting and rapacious industries, and, mostly [...]
UPDATED BELOW: It’s too early to tell how the much-vaunted Republican “sweep” is going to turn out, but since they’re probably going to win at least two, and predictably deem that outcome an historic victory, I have to wonder: ” Victory for what?” Somewhere deep down, you’d think that a separatist minority must have some [...]
Already the teabaggers (and the media who worship them) are declaring tomorrow’s elections to be a stinging defeat for Democrats, all but certain to hobble Obama’s nine-month (or, according to the strange calendar of the media, who can’t wait that long, one year…) presidency. How many facts must one ignore, and how much Fox must [...]