By:
On:
In: Politics
With: 18 Comments

“There are two things you don’t want to see being made – sausage and legislation.” Otto von Bismark said that. (It seems he had a thing for sausage, because he said virtually the same thing in conjunction with “justice.”) He also said; “God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.” Well the Republicans, emboldened by their glorious trifecta of divine providences, went all medieval-in-the-night at the sausage factory on the Hill when they produced: <Wait for it>…….. The American Health Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1628) < Ta-da-a-a!> Earlier in the week, GOP Conference staffers set about raiding theRead More →

By:
On:
In: Uncategorized
With: 3 Comments

Anybody watching the news coverage today?  It is wall-to-wall round-robin tournaments of bullshit. “Well wassamatter LD, what’s buggin’ you today?” How about a House vote on health care reform legislation that has nothing at all to do with delivering health care, but is entirely about encasing women’s health inside a concrete footing and erecting the first abutment for a complex bridge of parliamentary machinations to reach a massive, permanent, $800 billion give-away to the 1%? Or how about a “Religious Liberty” Executive Order” that portends the placement of demolition charges on the walls between church and state? And how about testimony from FBI Director ComeyRead More →

By:
On:
In: Politics
With: 3 Comments

(Reuters) May 3, 2017 Washington DC— Late yesterday the White House Secret Service detail, in advance of what the agency expects to be a globe-trotting Presidency, got their first glimpse of the new prototype Presidential limousine. In coming weeks a team of agency security experts, with NASCAR driver, Joey Logano, as chief consultant, will be conducting extensive road tests to evaluate the radical new design, requested by then-candidate, Donald Trump, via Twitter tantrum earlier last year. Recently appointed head of Secret Service, Randolph “Tex” Alles, told a gathering of White House reporters, “The President’s security team (pictured above) had hoped to take it out forRead More →

By:
On:
In: Culture
With: 14 Comments

  No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom… No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.                                                             –Christopher McCandless Libertarian ideologues and Tea-party types all proclaim their deep patriotism for “America”. But of course the America of their shared imagination consists exclusively of its land, its resources, and its like-minded people. That’s pretty much it. Government is not a part of their America so much as it is some amorphous, interloping entity that metastasized from post-Colonial social contracts conceived and midwifed by a slew of mythical Founding Fathers whomRead More →