One of my favorite righty insults/incitements is when they say, as they do pretty much all the time, that the beret-wearing cabal of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are trying to turn the good ol’ USA into some sort of “European Socialist” hellhole. Would that it were so; I get the distinct impression that Paris, France, [...]
What a darned surprise it is that the vile and amoral lord of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, who just accidentally killed a few dozen people, is a teabagger. Although Blankenship had a spare million to contribute to the Tea Party, thanks to his rather unusual and legally frowned upon cost-cutting measures, he should be respected, [...]
Aside from one brief and ill-advised interval, I’ve always lived in Oregon, and sort of laughed off the outsiders’ jokes about our weather. Rain isn’t so bad, after all, if you have reliably flawless, humidity-free summers that run from July 5th until the end of September, and are seldom plagued by blizzard or subfreezing temperatures [...]
Perhaps the worst outcome, and certainly the most lasting, of our corporatized, financialized, and monopolized economy is the utter collapse of the dignity of honest work. Not only have we lost a large and secure class of skilled, often unionized labor, but we have lost what they used to give us: quality products from lettuce [...]