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Orcs in a Trance: the GOP really ARE zombies

Chris Mooney's latest piece on the fundamentally different thought patterns of liberals and conservatives is the starting point for this essay. His well-researched conclusion is that:There’s now a...

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Senator Check-box and the timidity of Democrats

The Democrats still don't get they are dealing with gangsters, gangsters whom the public wants out of Congress, off Wall St., and in jail.I will be the first to laugh at the absurdity of Scott Brown's...

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The GOP plays the "Jewish Physics" card on climate change

While it may be logically laughable, it is politically very dangerous to allow the GOP to make a mockery of science. The latest escalation in tactics is the absurd Newspeak denial of reality that...

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The GOP is a "Big Tent" for gangsters

Several years ago, I wrote...The Five Stages of Grief for the Party of FDR (and caught an immense amount of grief for writing it). Consider this diary as the announcement of my arrival into the...

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Seeing the economic forest instead of the neoliberal trees

...the international financial crisis is just the last in a series of economic calamities produced by a type of theory that converted the economics profession from a study of real world phenomena into...

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Let them eat lead

The extreme interpretation of 2nd amendment rights (on display after every senseless gun massacre) is yet another instance of pushing for government privatization for the profit of the very rich, to...

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The GOP are schizophrenics led by sociopaths

There is only one way to interpret the GOP at this point in time. They are nuts. If you want the clinical definition, the party platform is schizophrenic, and the top of the ticket is sociopathic. I...

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Mitt Minderbinder

This just popped into my head; but it fits like a glove. Well, actually, RMoney is even skeeve-ier and larger-scale than the Milo Minderbinder character of Joseph Heller's satirical anti-war novel,...

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The End of Memory: Embassies, cardinals, and asylum

I had been only peripherally tracking the whole Assange story. But, when the fallback position to "storming the embassy" (i.e., preventing Assange from leaving the building) broke, it just rang a big...

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The Party of Secrecy, Sabotage, and Sedition

The more I examine the goals and tactics of the GOP, the more they resemble an old-fashioned banana/oil republic coup. You know, the kind the CIA pulled against Guatemala, Iran, and Chile.While the...

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The Corporate Media: Agendas, assertions, and excuses

Say goodbye to the Enlightenment, and its touchstones: facts, logic, and reason. Our national mental life has entered a new Dark Age. An age where counterfeit assertions are accepted as honest facts;...

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Romney isn't leading a political campaign; he's leading a lynch mob

The GOP has built a mob with the promise to lynch blacks (especially BHO), uppity women, Hispanics, Moslems, gays, unions, non-Christianists, scientists, the environment, any kind of government benefit...

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The Persistence Hunting of Democracy

The phrase "Slow Motion Coup d'Etat" is often used to describe the thirty year long war on democracy by corporate power. I think the phrase the "persistence hunting of democracy" is more accurate and...

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Is it sedition yet?

In September I wrote a diary about sedition that sank like a stone.Two months and one kick-ass election later, I am angrier than ever about the seditious behavior of the completely truculent GOP.The...

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The Amer Rouge - cadres of fundamentalist capitalism

The phrase "American Taliban" has been around for a while; but it has never gotten much traction because of the corporate media's unwillingness to recognize that non-Muslim religions can also have...

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The 1% has come to hang us; they bought the rope on sale at Walmart

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Grover Norquist has a picture of Lenin prominently displayed in his office. For decades, the corporate...

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Serendipity + Science = Personal Power

Some scientists at Georgia Tech (and Xiamen University, China) have accidentally stumbled on an amazingly efficient and simple way to generate electricity. Its literally as simple as rubbing two pieces...

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Rape vs Guns

Being a dyed-in-the-wool shit-stirrer, I can't resist this.There is a strong overlap between those men who say (paraphrase) "boys will be boys, so women had better watch out" and those who say...

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The Restoration of the Rentiers

The one thing that the banksters, the theocrats, and the ignorant, racist, hyper-macho, armed-rebellion crowd have in common is a push for a return to a medieval society.A society where a wealthy...

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2012: The year truth left the building in America

2012 was a record-breaking year for propaganda and outright lies - all of it green-lighted by the  Villager media whores. Low information voters can be excused for being confused about the situation,...

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