While I’m not a person who scares easily, I’ll be brutally honest and say this woman scares me more than any politician I’ve known in any country. She scares me far more than the chillingly cheerful Russian leaders we were taught were our enemies when we were children. She scares [...]

Questinia : ‘nite Kes! Questinia : I have a lovely cemetery near me. Many are buried there who lived in my house. Questinia : Where did my messages go? Questinia : Not near Killingworth!, Near Salisbury. Litchfield Hills. Questinia : Hi kes, Firefox is beach balling me to death kesmarn [...]

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! – Percy Bysshe Shelley Am I the only one that’s not crazy here? – Kanye West, November 23rd, Bowery Ballroom In the solipsistic universe that Kanye West inhabits (in which he is Kanye West, and [...]

Join me vicariously for another desktop vacation. In this installment I share my photos from around the Chesapeake Bay.

Famous political and media figures celebrate Thanksgiving by sharing the many things they’re thankful for.

A PlanetPOV Exclusive: The top news headlines from ten years in the future!

 We as a nation suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder.  We have become a people of instant gratification and soundbite debate.  Our failing economy and government institutions suffer form long-term problems that simply cannot be explained or resolved using tag-lines or talking points and yet we fail to engage in deeper [...]

kesmarn : Seriously, Kalima has been amazing. MB is as much a part of my morning as coffee and the daily paper! kesmarn : More than 10? (I don’t think I’m gonna win that contest…?) bitohistory : In a years time, can you possibly guess the number of articles and [...]

Celebrate the one year anniversary of Kalima’s Morning Blog in today’s Friday Music Thread!

Kalima, I want to thank you for you tireless work and for your starting my days with news, thoughts, smiles and wonderment.

Happy Anniversary to You!

Can this country be all for everyone and no one has to pay taxes? Roads, schools, hospitals, parks to be built. Wars to be fought and the country to be defended.
Don’t be mad at me, but I think I just sent you to the unemployment line and slashed your benefits.

In the aftermath of the mid-term shellacking, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about John Edwards and wondering, frankly, if the country, Right and Left, would have gone half as crazy as it appears to have gone, had Edwards kept his nose clean, his tackle in the box, won the [...]

The Fall Fundraising and Membership Drive for PlanetPOV is on! Help keep The Planet spinning!

Kesmarn’s brilliant article, Please, tear that price tag off!, impresses the powerful image of our democracy and citizenry as a 500 pound patient, too bloated to help itself or accomplish even the most minor tasks required for its subsistence and survival. Citizens United may have been the last straw in [...]

People just don’t know and won’t believe that the President doesn’t legislate. This tax cuts brouhaha is another “death panel” debate. It’s when someone takes a concept, labels it and spins it like a top. We all know the origin of the “death panel” meme and how, eventually, it resulted in [...]

When the only thing that’s enough is too much…

I was going though some of the posts on the Planet today and looking at the “meta tags” and “excerpts” “categories, and “hyperlinks” which all generate traffic to your posts and to the site.  These little buggers are what will make you rich and famous as a blogger. Well maybe [...]

AdLib : Night! PatsyT : Nighty Night … PatsyT : Phewwww I think Boehner has had enough Khirad : Night guys! AdLib : Looks about time to wrap tonight’s session of Vox Populi. Thanks Khirad and Patsy and everyone else for making it a lot of fun and a great [...]

Your rich uncle gives you a beautiful, warm, but isolated tropical island but you have to promise to stay there for 5 years and you can take a limited amount of possessions. Items you can take? Just 3 albums/CD’s . What are your picks

What is meant by “The Will of the People” that we hear daily from the noise machines? And what “people” are they listening too? 98% or 2%?

Damn You Master’s of War!!

In the aftermath of this year’s election, I was in the midst of throwing out all the books in my bookshelf that contained the word “sense” (“Sense and Sensibility”, “Common Sense”, “The Sixth Sense – Novelization”, “Senseless   – The Glenn Beck Story”) when I found an old business card [...]

Corporate America has been encroaching on our government for decades.  Slowly, but steadily increasing its reach within our legislative, executive, judicial and regulatory institutions.  Our congress passes laws written by corporate lobbyists, appoints regulators who have deep and ongoing industry connections and allows the regulated to write their own regulations.   I am not [...]

I went to the All Souls Procession Sunday night. True, Día de los Muertos was last week, but hey, Tucson operates on its own time. It is no small irony that the liveliest I’ve ever seen downtown Tucson is when everyone is dressed like they’re dead. Due to my flash [...]