Republicans at war, while Democrats sip tea
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Rachel Maddow recently spent considerable air-time on her recent show listing and commenting on the large number of Republicans who railed against and voted against the economic stimulus bill. As smart as Rachel is, she’s missing the larger point, which is the tactical game adopted by the Republicans. They know that people expect inconsistency in [...]
Profit is our most important product!
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Remember the good old days? When Ronald Reagan was an actor/shill instead of our President? Before the string of corporate-loving presidential clones who followed? (I count you among them, Bill Clinton.)
Shilling before the TV cameras for the GE Theater, Ronnie used to say, “At General Electric, progress is our most important product.” What a nice, [...]
How ’bout that financial “industry?”
Monday, September 22nd, 2008A few words about the current financial “industry” situation: “Aaaaghh!” “Eeeeaahhh!” “Fuuuuuuck meeeee!” “Oyyyy vaaaaaaisssmeeeeer!” And the always available: “IknewitIknewitIknewitwhydidn’tIsellwhenIhadagoodprofitIamsuchadumbhead!”
Look at your credit cards. Chances are that more than half of them are with MBNA. Here’s what MBNA founder Charles Cawley says: “Today is not as good a time to be in banking as five [...]
Abe Lincoln vs. Reagan/Bush/McCain Republicans
Friday, September 19th, 2008“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
Abe Lincoln supposedly said that, although it’s also been attributed to P.T. Barnum, an odder pairing there never was. Except if you compare [...]
Stuck on Pig Lipstick
Sunday, September 14th, 2008Much has been made recently of pig lips, a subject which I know something about. First, let me say that, other questions aside, it is quite difficult for a pig, male or female, to apply lipstick, either to ourselves or to other pigs, as we lack those essential things called thumbs. I’m sure this is [...]
Republican Lies: or, Coffee and Crullers with My Corporate Pals
Friday, September 12th, 2008Yester-morn, I was having coffee and crullers (just one) at Lillie’s wonderful place of coffee and crullers when one of my table-mates said, “That Krugman, the New York Times guy, he’s gone off the deep end again. I don’t know why they keep him around.”
“What did he say this time?” I asked in all innocence.
“Oh, [...]
The Brilliant Choice of Sarah Palin: Gut vs. Brain in elections
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008John McCain may not (is not, actually) the smartest candidate for president in 2008, but his choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate was brilliant. I don’t know this to be true, I feel it, which in elections is far more important.
Yes, Sarah Palin is a hypocrite several times over, especially with her “proud” [...]
Hell hath no fury like women scorned?
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008Hell hath no fury like (or, as) a woman scorned.
Apologies to William Congreve for this modern bollixing of the original line in his 1697 play, The Mourning Bride. The real line reads: “…Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.” I, Rrrandy Wurst, former candidate for president, hath taken it upon myself to bollix [...]
Can the Democratic Party survive Democrats?
Monday, August 25th, 2008First day of the Democratic Convention in Denver and already Democrats have formed their usual circular firing squad. (Thank you Barbara Barnett at blogcritics.org for that graphic image.) Creating havoc from within while Republicans sit back picking tobacco strands from their yellowed teeth.
What in the ever-lovin’ state of Colorado do we think a presidential nominating [...]
Loss of truth in news: Should we just “get over it”?
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Read the following from the New York Times in an article by Ford Fessenden and John M. Broder, dated Nov. 12, 2001:
“If all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards, and combined with the results of an examination of overvotes, Mr. Gore would have won, by a very narrow margin.”
This statement, [...]
