Results for tonight’s recall elections in WI are already starting to trickle in, updates will be posted below in comments.

How’s this for an oxymoron? Her Serene Highness Queen Ratfucker Omnipotent of Medialand, otherwise known as Arianna Huffington, came to Philadelphia yesterday to address the convention of theNational Association of Black Journalists. Why, I don’t know; but there’s nothing Arianna ever does that doesn’t include promotion of that one thing [...]

MASSIVE edition! News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Anyone who is looking forward to the time when major corporations will start hiring Americans for good paying jobs again in big numbers, are among those who don’t know what the “new normal” is for corporations.

Although Standard & Poors publicly stated reasons behind their decision to downgrade the credit rating of the United States from “AAA” to “AA+” were correct in as much as the handling of the phony debt-ceiling crisis, it was also illustrative of a serious systemic problem existent in the Republican Party. [...]

Image via Wikipedia Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. ~Emily Dickinson I have a morbid fascination with death. Let’s just get that out of the way early. I’m sure that as time wears on, and I [...]

Let me be clear: I hate sleep.

Spray on that sun tan lotion and grab that Mojito, the heat is on!

There’s been a campaign going on around the blogosphere for awhile, advocating that MSNBC ban Pat Buchanan from appearing on the network. Buchanan is a political analyst, who, in the wake of the tragedy in Norway, wrote an editorial, which appeared to rationalise, if not favour, the motives of the assassin [...]

Chernynkaya : Night, AL–I’ll let you know and thanks again. AdLib : Yep, looks like it’s time to close the Vox Populi bar! Have a great weekend Cher and let me know if that software works out! Night! Chernynkaya : Thanks–I’ll need it for the link. UGH. Chernynkaya : Night, [...]

  Let’s face it… We are our own worst enemy.. and we better acknowledge that simple fact that unless we confront this cancer as a unified front then the entire nation will succumb to the bagger agenda. We ALSO need President Obama to USE HIS POWER and stop these SEDITIONISTS [...]

  Good morning, Planeteers! I trust you all are doing okay, having come through all this angst. Now that Congress is on their five-week PAID vacation, we can all step back a little and take a deep breath. They can’t do much damage while they’re gone! But not to worry…they [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, August 3, 2011

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, August 2, 2011

      It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. ~Henry David Thoreau   Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ~Anton Chekhov       I’d like to discuss something [...]

Remember that Monty Python skit where the Texas movie producer gets a bunch of screenwriters in a room and badgers them all until they are reduced to hiding under the table? The Texas producer actually reminds me a lot of the Tea Baggers. But I digress. Terry Jones is so [...]

Obama haters of all stripes and alleged political positions are joined in a chorus of furious, self-righteous bleating, like a flock of sheep with gas pains.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, August 1, 2011