There’s so much hostility in our society and media…doesn’t it just piss you off?!

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, June 30, 2011

In the 21st Century, intellect has debased itself to such a point that every action needs simplification to the nth degree, with people being willfully and patently unable to see more than one way of achieving an end.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, June 29, 2011

There seems to be less interest among Americans in the validity of a political conflict, even if its cause is clearly dishonest, than who comes out on top as the winner.

In yesterday’s New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all stripes not to forget the poor in all their shenanigans and manouevres. Blow called upon his own life’s experience, growing up poor and black in rural [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, June 27, 2011

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.” – Einstein My morning yesterday was like so many others, riding a crowded train out from suburban Tokyo to neighboring Yokohama for work. As usual, I would have to wait [...]

We are the United States of Shallow Americans. We obsess over the nuance in a phrase or a word and are distracted by the most inane things, thus allowing the sheisters and idealogues, whom we reckon good enough to govern us, free rein to rape and pillage our way of [...]

So I understand Keith Olbermann, the multimillionaire media egotist and ex-sportscaster who deems himself eminently qualified to comment on political affairs, whose resurrected show Countdown is an echo chamber of one-sided thought with no room for debate and no tolerance for any divergence of opinion, ended his first program on [...]

Celebrate New York’s historic passage of gay marriage with songs about love and marriage!

  “I am the punishment of God…If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” ~Genghis Khan Temuijin – Early Years and Rise to Fame For about a 5 or 6 year period in the late 1980′s to early 90′s, Mike [...]

AdLib : Well Abby, looks like we’re closing the Vox Populi bar tonight. Thanks so much for helping to make it another enlightening chat and thanks to everyone else for making that happen too. See you soon and hopefully next Friday, same bat time, same bat channel! Have a great [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, June 24, 2011

When the Democrats have to be told home truths by Pat Buchanan, you know something is not only rotten, it’s shameful. Earlier this week, in one of his many appearances on MSNBC, where he’s the Grandpa Munster of political analysts, Buchanan was amazed at how the Democratic Party were sneakily [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, June 23, 2011. Sorry for the late post–computer pixies!!

President Obama speaks tonight at 5:00 pm PDT on Afghanistan policy and troop withdrawals, you can watch it live right here.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, June 22, 2011

  I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. ~Rodney Dangerfield   I wanna talk a little nostalgia in this post. Specifically, the toys we loved as children. I’m sure almost all of us have at least one favorite. I loved my [...]

This is a rare opportunity to strengthen our nation’s democracy simply by watching tv.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, June 21 , 2011

Welcome to Tampa Liberty School, a Glenn Beck–inspired summer camp that teaches 8-year-olds how to fight The Man At the Tampa Liberty School camp kids ages 8 to 12 learn Tea Party principles along the lines of “America is good.     Americans have been sending their kids to summer [...]

The British have a great phrase for expressing the fact that someone is undergoing a particularly angering derangement syndrome. They simply say that someone “has a cob on.” Well, Joan Walsh has had a massive cob on since early April, dating, specifically from the moment the President announced he was [...]