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Moving Minutes–Casablanca

by CapitalistBitch | 12:49 pm, February 5, 2010

In the past I have joked about cheese-eating surrender monkeys.  Hell, I’m sure I’ll do it in the future.
This is, nonetheless, one of my favorite scenes from a classic movie.

Bury the Dead, Feed the Living. Shoot the Experts and Put the Kids in Charge.

by Eileen | 1:24 pm, January 25, 2010

We don’t need government and idiotic herds of ‘international actors’ to direct our compassion for us. While they compete for air time and talk as if decency only exists as some aggregate function of mobs, the truth is that our best is within us as individual creatures. The seven-year old who figured this out has shamed the pros.

Sometimes Life is Stranger than Fiction

by wesley | 9:16 pm, December 2, 2009

Last week, I started reading George Orwell’s 1984 for the first time. Yes, I know, I’m an uncultured heathen. Deal with it. I’m only about one third of the way in, but Orwell’s already painted a pretty frightening totalitarian society of the future. The below passage struck me as very topical as the Lies of [...]

You Don’t Punch Zombies – Duh!

by zombiehunter | 6:17 am, October 30, 2009

Let’s take a break from Cap ‘n Tax, socialized medicine, and the general shredding of these United States’ Constitution to discusss something of real importance. Iowa has officially dropped to the number 48 position (just above California and New York) on my official list of States Most Likely to Survive a Zombie Attack. [...]

If Palin’s Family Is “Fair Game”, What About Obama’s Daughters?

by T.L. James | 9:34 pm, July 8, 2009

The rationalization goes something like this: because Sarah Palin showed her Down’s baby Trig onstage during the GOP convention, and displayed her family at various campaign appearances, she “politicized” them and thereby made her children fair game for all manner of cruel treatment by commentators, pundits, comedians, and bloggers.
Does the same standard apply to Obama’s children when [...]

Sunday Funnies: Barack Obama – Superhero?

by Ikonoclast | 6:14 am, June 21, 2009

The sad thing is that some of the cult of the Messiah don’t realize that this is satire…  Watch the video:

Bitter Medicine

by Eileen | 1:08 pm, May 30, 2009

We’ve just gotten back the ArapaHOPE event – a rally for socialized medicine.  Our very own Steve T. headed down to the West Steps to record the day in image and interview – which made him the only one who understood why he was there.
The sparse crowd was a aging, poorly dressed echo of James [...]

The Goode Family

by zombiehunter | 12:11 pm, May 29, 2009

I don’t really watch TV, but for those of you who do, it looks like a new Southparkian-like cartoon is up on ABC.  Take a look:

WWAGD?
What would Al Gore Do?

Sheeple Watch #19: Hipness Is What It Is

by T.L. James | 6:29 pm, April 26, 2009

Of course, as Bill Clinton would tell you, it depends on what is is.
I don’t know that I’d call what he has “hipness”, as much as I’d call it “the fawning adulation of unquestioning, sheep-like adherents to his cult of personality“.
During his first 100 days as president of the United States, Barack Obama revealed how [...]

It’s the Ominous Parallels: Why Citizens are Rediscovering “Atlas Shrugged” In the Age of Obama

by T.L. James | 12:41 pm, April 18, 2009

Bruce Webster at And Still I Persist has an instructive post on why Atlas Shrugged is finding new audiences and enthusiastic new fans in our bold new era of Hope and Change™.  The post consists of a summary of the major themes and overall plot of the book, augmented with references and links to recent economic [...]

In Which the Coffee Addicted Washington Bureau Chief Switches to Tea Parties

by Eileen | 12:50 am, April 9, 2009

Alright, kids.  We are at Tax-Day + 96 hours.   Which means that if you don’t yet know which tea party you’re going to, it’s time to get on it.
What else are you doing next Wednesday? Working? Please.  You aren’t keeping a penny of it until after Tax Freedom Day.  So, speak up.
This fine site has [...]

W.R. Grace Deficit Commercial – Prescient, and Delightfully Creepy

by T.L. James | 10:57 pm, April 6, 2009

I don’t remember seeing this commericial when it was originally on…

…but I was surprised to discover that it had been made in 1986. By Ridley Scott.
It looks newly-made, and it certainly fits the current situation. And it has a catchy retro feel to it, as if it had been made on the set of Dune  [...]

South Park offers best illustration of Economy Crash yet

by Ikonoclast | 12:43 am, March 31, 2009

The most recent episode (original air date: 25 March 2009) of the iconic television comedy South Park brilliantly skewers the current financial crash and economic meltdown – and the absurd reactions of much of the public (and even more so the absurdity of the Obama government policy measures).
The episode brilliantly lampoons bank failures, individual spending [...]

Glenn Beck: We Surround Them

by zombiehunter | 4:27 pm, March 14, 2009

Many of you saw Glenn Beck announce his newest project We Surround Them.
Beck’s been getting made fun of a few other television personalities like Stephen Colbert and Shep Smith because he sometimes gets pretty emotional. Glenn, I’ve got no problem with you getting emotional – especially when it’s because you love our [...]

On Fascism . . .the other “F” word.

by CapitalistBitch | 6:28 pm, March 2, 2009

You’ve more than likely seen “fascist” thrown around a LOT–and I’ll bet you dollars to donuts when you’ve seen it the meaning has been a tad inconsistent.
  After performing many a google search for contextual references to “fascist” and “fascism”,  I found George Orwell made offering up the word’s internet flame-fest definition easy:
The word Fascism has [...]

NYU Student Protest Ends

by CapitalistBitch | 9:40 pm, February 27, 2009

What, you didn’t know there was a sit-in and protest at NYU?  Yeah. Neither did I.
With the exception of the profanity, Saturday Night Live couldn’t have done a better parody.
Before the economy went to crap, corporate America was facing a real crisis as they tried to integrate these kids into the work force. Maybe it’s [...]

For Wine Lovers With a Social Conscience

by T.L. James | 5:25 pm, February 22, 2009

The Biggie Wine & Liquors store in Conifer, Colorado has just lost my business:

It’s bad enough that they carry a wine labeled with the iconic image of a psychotic mass murderer like Che Guevara. They make it worse by choosing to prominently display this display of astonishing bad taste (much of the end cap to [...]

In Which the Washington Bureau Chief Rejoices in Her Childlessness

by Eileen | 5:05 am, February 15, 2009

Over at the tremendously amusing Daily Beast, there’s an article detailing the woes of status symbols parents (by which I mean the rug rats serve as validation and tools for scoring points) as they await acceptance letters…for preschool.
Along with the mother who still ruminates on the train wreck that will her child’s life because the [...]



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