Maybe it’s me, but it feels like the years 2002 – 2005  all over again.  Just like those years, it feels like I should be angry (again) at the Republicans, and the American people who were duped into putting them in power, and the voters were duped. There were no weapons of mass destruction back then, and now the blame for [...]

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along.   Douglas Adams, Last chance to see   _____________________________________________   I was actually thinking about doing a Debunking Propaganda III, and attacking the Hitler references that are so [...]

     I have no idea what to write.  I had one before.  Seriously, I did, but through the intervening moments, hours really, the thoughts, all of them, have one by one disappeared.  It is an annoyance, truth be told, to have forgotten everything that I was going to write about.  But then again if I [...]

The Joy of Bill Hicks (w/puppets), before I get to my main point. All through the 2008 Presidential campaign, I was, if anything, anti-government.  If you read some of the things I write now, you may be of the opinion that that has changed.  It has not.  I am still as anti-authoritarian as ever, if anything [...]

       A Happy Video, showing the birth of, at least a portion of, modern Republican economic philosophy.            The congressional budget office in 2005 did a study, headed up by former head of John McCain’s presidential economic team Douglas Holtz-Eakin.  That study pointed out the inefficiency of an across the board tax cut of 10% of all income ranges. [...]