Clik here to view.
Playing “Telephone” in Cyberspace
Few people make it through childhood without at some time or other playing the game of Telephone, though they may call it other names. In case you don’t remember or you’ve never been a child, here’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
So Why Are They Blaming the Nice Little Tea Party for Those Nasty Shootings?
Hardly had the cyber-ink dried (or whatever cyber-ink does) on the last post, touching upon the patriotic posturing of today’s right-wing zealots, when the news broke of the Tuscon tragedy and its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Of Tea Parties, Terrorists and Civil Discourse
Carolyn Kaster/ AP As you may have heard, the media made a rising star out of Ryan Rhodes, the founder of the Iowa Tea Party, when he spoke out of turn at an appearance by President Obama, yelling at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Great Tea Party Scam: The 5 Top Myths
As you may have noticed, the Tea Party is rapidly drying up. Well, maybe you haven’t noticed, since there isn’t nearly as much media fanfare about its demise as there was about its ascendancy. And...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Communists, Socialists, Marxists, Oh My!
Whoever said that nothing is certain except death and taxes made a glaring oversight. It’s also certain that whenever anyone proposes genuine change, they’re going to be branded communist, socialist,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Smear Campaign Against Occupy Wall Street
It’s hardly surprising that members of the corporate plutocracy and their accomplices in government and media should smear Occupy Wall street at all costs. What’s especially impressive, however, is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Of Occupying Scoundrels and Tea Party Saints
AP/ Thomas K Fowler When it comes to covering Occupy Wall Street, the media seem to have a severely split personality. On the one hand, they’re obsessed with declaring that the movement is just like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Redefining Incivility
There was an interesting article recently in USA Today about the anniversary of the Tuscon shooting. Not so interesting in terms of its content, maybe, but interesting in terms of how it was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Biggest, Baddest, Brassiest Lies About Barack Obama (and a few...
“Are we going to defend this Constitution that we celebrated tonight, or are we going to watch it be eroded by a Commander-in-Chief who disrespects this Constitution, doesn’t believe in free...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reactions to Boston: The Good, the Bad, and the Batshit Loony
Bombing Victim Jeff Bauman A senseless act of violence (or a tragedy if you will) like the Boston Marathon bombing has a way of bringing out the best in most people. A wounded veteran of combat in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Propaganda Prop # 2: Flag Waving
When the 112th Congress, freshly perked up with newly elected Tea Party darlings, convened this week, they did something that had never been done before: they read the entire Constitution on the floor...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Hijacking of Reality: a Timeline (Part 2)
(a continuation of previous post) 1982: The Moonie Media “Reverend” Sun Myung Moon was best known as the leader of a global cult (The Unification Church) that aggressively recruited devotees...
View Article
