I heard this story on “This American Life.” I want to offer it as a kind of amelioration to the many posts about religion here, because I think it needs to be added. I did my best to transcribe the story, but you can listen to it here. David Ellis [...]

Spring is putting the pedal to the metal in some parts of the world and people are getting into all sorts of machines to tool around it.  So, I thought it might be a good time to pay a musical salute to motoring and traveling in general. This week WMT’s [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, April 29, 2011

AdLib : Night Cher! Night Bito! And John Boy, turn down the tv! bito : Good night all. Chernynkaya : You to, AdLib–thanks! AdLib : Well, looks like a good time to bring tonight’s edition of Vox Populi to a close. Thanks Bito, Cher and Patsy and everyone else for [...]

-Text: Truth; Illustration: B. McCue – Last week we had an extensive look at Huffington Posts’ headlines concerning President Obama and the Democrats and observed the eroding influence the headlines had on the general public, as well as on several shades of the Left spectrum. Having seen that, it is [...]

With all the hoopla behind President Obama’s birth certificate and the questions about his citizenship, in addition to the ideals and comments made or alluded to by certain members of the ‘tea party’ and others on the right, I got to thinking…WHAT exactly constitutes the ideals of a ‘real’ American?  [...]

Delivered January, 20 1961 in Washington D.C.   Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens:   We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom — symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning [...]

I am an atheist, but what does that mean?

  ADONAI: Congressman Boehner, I’m so happy you decided to agree to this interview! I have so many questions I want to ask you. Congressman Boehner: Wha ….. where am I? Who…. Oh no! No, no, no!   ADONAI: So, where to begin. Do you mind if we go back [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, April 29, 2011

The sun came up today…

News and opinion from around US-opolis forThursday, April 28, 2011

So now we have the long-form birth certificate. The 44th President of the United States is a natural-born citizen, and the document was produced amidst a fervor of speculation which has never gone away since being slyly introduced into the campaign arena by some disenchanted and bitter PUMAs. A large [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, April 27, 2011.

If corporations are people and corporations destroy other corporations, aren’t they guilty of murder?

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday April 26, 2011.

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” ~YODA       FEAR: Perhaps mankind’s oldest and most primal emotion.  If you can name one emotion most mammals share, it is fear. Fear is what kept our species [...]

My thoughts are bouncing all over the place today, so I will put them all here rather than a bunch of posts in O/T. First, Today is Anzac Day, a very important holiday in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating the “birth” of both nations at the terrible Battle of Gallipoli [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, April 25 2011.

After the Big Bang came the Great Darkness. In indescribable darkness, matter raced away from itself in all directions, pushing space into being as it did so. Darkly, it spun and coalesced, exploded and merged, exploded again, grew heavier, impossibly; formed stars that lived billions of years, died, and in [...]

Something different today: Front Page News and opinion from around US-opolis for Saturday, April 23, 2011.

From around the corner or around this planet, people create the beats and thus the rhythm to which this old world resonates. This week the theme is drums and rhythm –  anything with a kick ass rhythm lead or accompaniment that provides a rhythm that is in your opinion, of [...]

bito : «link» AdLib : Hey Bito, the link is broken, what’s there? bito : One more OT, anyone on AOL? Read this.«link» bradblog.com/?p= 8487 I wonder if PPOV is on that list? AdLib : Looks like we’ve come to the end of another edition of Vox Populi! Thanks to [...]

Step right up! Try Republican Ryan’s Remarkable Remedy! It’s just the thing for what ails ya! One taste of this and whatever you were concerned about before will become the least of your worries!

One tactic the Huffington Post has mastered is generating outrage. The more outrage they can incite, the more clicks they get. They have become so adept at this, they can even generate outrage using a non-story.