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conspiracy theories…

When I read the Rush Limbaugh diatribe I posted Monday [hippies caused the financial crisis and TARP… ], I didn’t exactly know what to say at the time. The notion that the financial crisis was "not an accident" implies that that it was created by someone – presumably the "hippies," "Clintons," etc. that he berates […]

hippies caused the financial crisis and TARP…

RUSH: It was the very people these hippies are protesting that came in and saved them, and now these people have finally realized — the Clintons are part of this sixties hippie generation, they are — they’ve achieved power.  They finally got there.  You could say that they’re naive in their idealism, it’s a mistake […]

not pretty…

“out”…

This has been a difficult year from our side. We’d hoped for a lot and we’re just getting a little bit. But, in spite of the persistence of the viciousness on the other side, there has been one bright spot. The Christian crazies are "out," at least a lot more "out’ than they were a […]

visible…

  Something I didn’t know about the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault in Haiti – you can see it…

hmm…

on steroids…

Last night, I watched the Golden Globes for a bit. Meryl Streep, a personal favorite, was in the audience. I remembered her at a previous Golden Globe ceremony [2004] chiding President Bush: After addressing her friends and colleagues who she said helped her win the Golden Globe for “Actress In A Leading Role – Mini-Series […]

the future of the American experiment…

It seems like it was such a long time ago – Martin Luther King’s assassination – well over half my life ago. King had come to Memphis to march with the striking sanitation workers. It was a difficult time. LBJ had passed the Civil Rights Legislation, and the South was in turmoil as "forced" integration […]

a thought…

The reason that the Conan O’Brien show failed is because he wasn’t very good. Just an opinion…

meals on wheels…

Writing scripts for Hate Radio doesn’t require a lot of creativity… Army turned into Meals on Wheels Voting Democrat causes Cancer Watching the non-stop coverage of the Haiti earthquake on CNN, I had something of an epiphany. On our cable menu, CNN is channel 12 and Fox News is channel 13. I’d never noticed that […]