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 ›
US Politics
Muzzling The Ron Paul Revolutionaries…For Now
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
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
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
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 ›
If Anyone’s Gonna Be Fraudulent Around Here, It’s Gonna Be Us
“The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.” – Christopher Hitchens For being a nation that essentially founded the modern democratic republic, we’ve never been too fond of the whole “democratic” part of the equation. As… Read More ›
Land of 10,000 Lakes & Deranged Politicians
Like CNN & Fox News covering a landmark healthcare ruling, I may have jumped the gun on a political verdict I put down earlier this week. In my article on Pleasantville extra and mutant Reaganite Paul Ryan’s bid for the… Read More ›
Paul Ryan & The Not-So-Great Society
“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson If there’s one thing you could always count on from ole LBJ it was a Texas sized portion of folksy… Read More ›
Gore (Vidal) v. Bush League
“At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes,… Read More ›
Revolting Wealth
“…Let them eat cake” – Quote attributed to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, 1780s “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business…” – Republican… Read More ›
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