As Stalin purportedly said, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

Sorry to disappoint you, Joe, but we in America thought that some progress was in order. Now anyone with access to our fancy new Diebold voting machines can hijack the results.

Ain't progress grand?

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released a new list of the Most Corrupt US Politicians. Now how you narrow down that list is as mysterious to me as deducing which grand master of the KKK was the least like Mother Theresa, but I do appreciate that to make the list you must be spectacularly bad or stupid, and possibly both ( Read more... )

I just have to vent about the recent Valerie Plame news [CNN, Post, or from the scum himself]. It turns out that Bob Novak is even more of a gutless, pathetic tool than advertised. In his diatribe he never once admits regret or hints that what he did was wrong or illegal. On top of that, here's the Post's summary of what a courageous, principled ( Read more... )

Could it be true that Iranians are a diverse, reasonable people more concerned with the economics of their daily life than the ideologically extreme and self-destructive machinations of their government, as this article from the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief would seem to suggest?

Pfft. As if that could happen in a modern democracy.

An outstanding article about an honest, if perhaps temporary, success in Tal Afar, as well as an enlightening discussion about the leadership failures in Iraq these men had to overcome. Colonel McMaster seems like my kind of guy. He's written a monograph called “Crack in the Foundation: Defense Transformation and the Underlying Assumption of ( Read more... )

This is the second time Bigfoot.com has let my domain expire without automatically renewing it OR sending me an email to mention that it's going to expire. While I can get the domain back, it means yet another few days without email. Motherfuckers.

1. $9 Billion a month for the war on terror
2. Billions of dollars of tax cuts, primarily for the richest 10%
3. Corporate welfare worthy of the French
4. Cutting NPR and PBS under the flag of "fiscal conservancy"

Some days this administration really irks me. It's inexcusable enough that they consistently vote to spend irresponsible amounts of money. The least ( Read more... )

I don't know about you, but I can't think of a single reason why the estate tax should be repealed. Oh sure the income tax credits were easy enough to rationalize as long as you used Rush Limbaugh math, but it was still a pathetically transparent "thanks for voting me in" gift. Plus all of us morlocks got $600, so I can understand why people ( Read more... )

You've all seen those reality shows where people go undercover? That's how I spent the day today: as a Republican. I was working the polls for an acquaintance who's running for State Representative. And after a day blending in with the Democratic and Republican Committemen assigned to my particular corner of the electoral universe I have ( Read more... )

$2.77 TRILLION dollars in a budget that even Republicans have labelled as absurd spending, $81 BILLION in additional spending and this fucknut in a tie can't spend $10 million to purchase the Flight 93 land for a memorial ( Read more... )