Dump Trump?
Trump dumps.
49 Dead, and one dead Hater,
50 Dead’s a better headline.
ConVisAdium a skyward island [Read more…]
Readers Write : Media Reduces Sanders Supporters to 50 Shades of White
An Open Letter to the New York Times
Amy Chozick,
I’ve been stewing over your New York Times story on Bernie Sanders’ sweep of Alaska, Hawaii and Washington states ever since I read IN ITS SECOND SENTENCE that those victories were a consequence of “the largely white and liberal electorate of the Pacific Northwest.” Did you really mean to write that? [Read more…]
Why Bernie’s Struggle Will Continue
What the U.S. needs now is a good old-fashioned platform fight at the Democratic Party Convention, only 4 months distant in this nightmare year.
We need to see just who are these people we’re told are the party’s established leaders. What do they really believe? [Read more…]
A Survey the DNC Doesn’t Want to Read
I got one of those faux political surveys from the Democratic National Committee in the mail recently, the one my now-deceased mother-in-law used to receive because we listed her address as our own after she fell into Alzheimers years ago. The surveys continued to arrive at our address, perhaps four times a year, until this time my name showed up on the envelope.
The introductory letter from the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, addressed me as a party leader — odd because I’m registered as “no party preference” — but I suppose that means Wasserman Schultz sees me as a California leftie and dropped the survey on me in hopes I can be attracted to Hillary.
This is the same Wasserman Schultz who opposes enlightened mariuana laws. She’s just announced she’s sponsoring a House bill that would handcuff the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Elizabeth Warren fought hard and long to establish this new federal agency, as it attempts to protect the working poor against confiscatory interest rates on payday loans. [Read more…]
The Oregon Stand Off: Mainstream Media Looked the Other Way
Odd that the Bundy story didn’t preoccupy the press as much as a Trump sneeze
Mainstream media largely failed to come up with breaking news of the arrest of the Bundys and a significant number of their cohort this week.
It was a failure that may have been intended. For weeks after January 2nd—when the cowboy sons of Nevada’s Cliven Bundy took over the Malheur bird refuge in Paiute Indian territory—the major outlets of television and traditional press just seemed to look the other way.
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The Bedeviled Dictionary
(Inspired by The Devil’s Dictionary, which Wikipedia says is “a satirical dictionary written by American journalist and author Ambrose Bierce. Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic’s Word Book, it features Bierce’s witty and often ironic spin on many common English words.”)
Three of the definitions here were written by Ambrose Bierce. Can you guess which ones? [Read more…]
Wild and Crazy Guys
I’ve got two explanations for the Trump phenomenon. They’re both a little hollow.
The first is, he’s the leading example of white privilege, and he’s proud of it. He’s got so much money he wouldn’t know how to fry an egg for himself if he were starving.
People like Trump have so much money and have been rewarded by media for so long they’ve lost track of what real people experience. They’ve become isolated. After decades of going out only to places where they can think and play with people whom they agree with these guys don’t have to watch what they say any longer. [Read more…]
America Has Changed its Name to The Homeland
Most of us good liberals and progressives think Hitler when we hear the words “fascism” and “fascist”. But if we want to use those words we’d do better to think about Italy, which, after all, gave those words to history.
Mussolini comes to mind. That muscular and oversized skull atop his shoulders, looking pretty much like a pit bull’s, and the strutting swagger that suggested he could rip out your liver and eat it… well, you know. It’s not good.
So how’d he get the land of amore y vino to march off to kill Ethiopians as they searched for The New Rome? He got lots of help from an aesthetic movement in Italy called Futurism. [Read more…]
Hillary the Hawk
Hillary Clinton has abandoned the Democratic Party’s foreign policy for her own. She’s left behind the notion that the Middle Eastern conflict could be contained to that region and joined Republicans in their calls to expand our warfare.
“It cannot be contained; it must be defeated,” she recently said.
On November 19, she told The American Council on Foreign Relations, “(t)he United States has been conducting this fight for more than a year; it’s time to begin a new phase and intensify and broaden our efforts … if we press forward on both sides of the border, in the air, on the ground, and as well as diplomatically, I do believe we can crush ISIS’s enclave of terror.” [Read more…]
Stay the Course, Republicans! Billionaires Blowing Through Cash is Very Entertaining
By Bob Dorn
The Republicans may be catching a bad case of Campaign Contribution Fatigue. It can lead to money failure.
JEB! has found out that fundraising $13.4 million and enjoying his last name and the family bank account aren’t enough to purchase the lead in the Republican race for the nomination to the presidency. He’s behind Trump, Carson, Rubio and Fiorina, and tied with Ted (Vampiro) Cruz at fifth place among the 15 nuts and fruits still running.
Gov. Chris Christie is near busted, with only $1.4M on hand in his account, which used to be enough to buy a New Jersey Congressional seat, and at any rate is not enough to shut the mouths of 67% of the state who say he should go AWOL from the platoon of declared candidates of his party. [Read more…]
Here’s Sanders in Your Eyes
By Bob Dorn
Time for another look at politics 2015.
No, no, no, don’t go back to Ultimate Fighting, or The Kardashians, or wondering whatever became of Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake or that kid on Via Amnesia named Justin whose pants keep falling below his crack.
Forget the distractions for a moment and try to focus on wtf is going on.
Let’s look at the S-words, and the J-word.
One S-word is Sanders, short for Bernie Sanders. Another S-word is Socialist, that’s the elephant in the room. [Read more…]
My Day in Court, Short and Bittersweet
By Bob Dorn
I had the distinction of being the first person thrown off a jury peremptorily in a courtroom this week. Before any evidence was introduced in this criminal misdemeanor case (a DUI), and before prosecution and defense had opened their arguments, the judge was forced to dismiss me from service.
It was the Deputy DA who had me thrown out. I’m not sure I understand why he did it. In legal terms, it was a peremptory challenge, and it means the attorney who exercised this right, the Deputy DA, could object to my presence on the jury without offering any cause or reason.
Was it my blue eyes? Do I look like a drunk? My curriculum vitae? Was it something I said? [Read more…]
