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• Climate Change Doesn’t Have To Exist When There’s Central Air

  By Drew Gibson on September 6, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  To hear both sides tell it, America would erupt into a pit of molten lava were we to elect the candidate that isn’t them. One man is a Kenyan socialist who wants to take away your guns and shoot you… Read More ›

• 19th Century Labor Day Blues

  By Drew Gibson on September 3, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Labor day is about as much a celebration of the American worker as Thanksgiving is a tribute to Native Americans. I’m sure American Indians rejoice in the irony of a nation celebrating their Wampanoag forefathers’ benevolence by gorging our honky… Read More ›

• Torture Me Softly

  By Drew Gibson on September 2, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  To members of the CIA, it was known as “The Salt Pit”. For those that were shackled and beaten there, it was simply “The Dark Prison.” In actuality it was an abandoned brick factory north of Kabul that had been… Read More ›

• When The Legend Becomes Fact: RNC Edition

  By Drew Gibson on August 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! – Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican National Convention Last night I… Read More ›

• Jill Stein: Activism, Populism and a Bid for The White House

  By Drew Gibson on August 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  If you can’t take the hate, get out of the convention. You might as well put that bad boy in Poor Richard’s Almanack because it’s the God’s honest truth. At least it is for me. I couldn’t force myself to… Read More ›

• Gilead’s New FDA Approved HIV Drug Improves Nothing, So Naturally It Costs A Lot

  By Drew Gibson on August 30, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  What do you suppose is the going rate for convenience? If you ask pharmaceutical giant and AIDS profiteer Gilead Sciences, the rate for an HIV+ person is somewhere around $29,000. The FDA announced yesterday, amid the media din accompanying the… Read More ›

• Muzzling The Ron Paul Revolutionaries…For Now

  By Drew Gibson on August 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  If you want to know why Ron Paul supporters are the way they are, all you need to do is head down to a day game at Wrigley Field. While the vast majority of fans will be perfectly happy to… Read More ›

• Wow, What a Wretched Human Being: Stacey Campfield

  By Drew Gibson on August 26, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  The rash of obscene ignorance sweeping our great nation has prompted me to create a new column on Virally Suppressed called, Wow, What a Wretched Human Being. In our inaugural entry we’ve decided to take a look at Tennessee State Senator… Read More ›

• Corporations Are People Too…Really, Really Rich People

  By Drew Gibson on August 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I wrote this piece back in January on my old blog, A Night In The Box, and thought it would be appropriate to recycle in anticipation of the upcoming RNC corporate orgy. ——————————- For all of his bumbling, incompetent magnificence,… Read More ›

• DJ For A Day: Romney/Ryan 2012 Edition

  By Drew Gibson on August 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I need a break people. For the past couple weeks it’s been nothing but magical vaginal rape shields and Ayn Rand objectivist petting parties and I don’t know how much more of it I can take. The Republican National Convention… Read More ›