We Need to Inform Voters About Grover Norquist: Special Comment by my...
My impassioned 72-year-old (Now 74, but who's counting?) friend, who goes by the Twitter name @42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings about informing voters of the effect Grover Norquist has on...
View ArticleRick Santorum's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad English, but Christian...
I have a pet peeve. When I see public figures (Okay, and not so public figures. Okay, and sometimes even friends.) use egregiously bad grammar or mispronunciate (yes, that was intentional) or invent...
View ArticleVIDEO- Alexandra Pelosi interviews voters in Mississippi: President Obama is...
If you saw "Real Time with Bill Maher" last night, you saw this rather jarring video of Alexandra Pelosi's interviews with voters from Mississippi. She interviewed some 20-30 people, and apparently,...
View ArticleBring Out the Dinosaurs: 66 Percent of Likely Mississippi GOP Primary Voters...
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin: On the other hand, isn't it of significance to discover that "new data from Public Policy Polling ...shows that 52 percent of...
View ArticleUPDATED: PhotOH! Tampa man selling racist "Don't re-nig" anti-Obama stickers
UPDATE: His site has been pulled down. Good riddance. ______ Original post: Two Twitter pals discovered this disturbingly racist excuse for a human being and dug around the Internets, quickly finding...
View ArticleVIDEO: Band for Univ. of So. Mississippi to player at NCAA Tournament game:...
The band from University of Southern Mississippi chanted "Where's your green card?" at a player from Kansas State during that NCAA Tournament game Oh and, um, the player is from... Puerto Rico. He's...
View Article"Let the Lizard Brain Bigots in Mississippi Start Their Own Country, on Mars"
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via Mark Karlin: You got to wonder what swamp fever can cause a guy to claim, "I don't care for the government, they don't show me anything," while admitting...
View Article"Green Card" chanters from University of Southern Mississippi band punished
As you may recall, the band from University of Southern Mississippi chanted “Where’s your green card?” at a player from Kansas State during that NCAA Tournament game. The player is from Puerto Rico,...
View ArticleLa Cucaracha: "Hitting yourself in the head with a hammer" makes you more...
A major advantage of having a Twitter pal like the wonderful Lalo Alcaraz (@LaloAlcaraz) is that he generously shares his work with us. Here’s today’s La Cucaracha: The post La Cucaracha: "Hitting...
View ArticleCancer patient: "I can tell you that 'Obamacare'...works... I got hate mail...
Educate yourselves. That's one of the important messages in this must-read op-ed by Spike Dolomite Ward who writes that the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act was a matter of life and...
View ArticleChart: Proof of how uninformed Americans are. No wonder they're so gullible.
Take a good long look at that chart from Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog. I'm glad I ran across it, because looking at the numbers without that visual just doesn't get the point across as well: A new...
View ArticleRepublicans have sabotaged job growth so they can blame President Obama
The GOP loves to blame President Obama when it is they who have blocked jobs bills every chance they get, and instead, spent a good amount of time pushing anti-abortion bills or adding them as riders...
View Article"When it suits their political aim to disenfranchise voters, [Republicans]...
Today's L.A. Times letters to the editor, because our voices matter: Re "Accentuating the negative," Opinion, July 8 The onslaught of political ads that offer these "swing voters" misinformation...
View Article"What the hell does IMPEDIMENT mean? You need to STOP making up words! All...
Longtime reader/pal Blondetwit lives in Washington (the state) and wrote this in Comments under the post CNBC’s Jim Cramer: “My dad, a vet, won’t be allowed to vote in Pa…” and I had to share it with...
View ArticleLa Cucaracha: Conservatives oppose increasing U.S. education because "this...
A major advantage of having a Twitter pal like the wonderful Lalo Alcaraz (@LaloAlcaraz) is that he generously shares his work with us. In his comic strip today, Lalo zeroed in on the usual Republican...
View ArticleVIDEO-- Chris Matthews: "Is that something women really worry about? Men...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As they have non-stop, the talking heads on MSNBC have been discussing a Hillary Clinton run for president in 2016 (enough...
View ArticleInforming the uninformed on #Obamacare, this time a cancer patient: Special...
My impassioned “72-year-old” friend (who is now 76, but who’s counting?), who goes by the Twitter name @42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings about the Affordable Care Act. I am more than happy...
View ArticleFed Up: Special Comment by my 76-year-old friend
My impassioned “72-year-old” friend (who is now 76, but who’s counting?), who goes by the Twitter name @42bkdodgr, would like to share his feelings of frustration about the state of politics and our...
View ArticleAbby Huntsman, "really, really upset about Social Security," would lead her...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy "Abby Huntsman is really, really upset about Social Security." That's how Michael Hiltzik begins his Los Angeles Times...
View ArticleLetter: "No more Nazi films... We all know what happened."
Films allow us to eavesdrop on others-- past, present, and future. Films pull open the drapes so we can peek in. Films essentially allow us to be peeping Toms on lives imagined and real. They teach...
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