Month: April 2009

Wanker of the Day: Ralph Peters

Ralph Peters is right about one thing. The Department of Homeland Security’s report (.pdf) on Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment doesn’t...

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Deep Thought

Methinks all that anger about being overtaxed yesterday is a wee bit misplaced (unless you just happen to be cashing a bonus check from a Wall Street Firm). From President Obama’s speech yesterday: First, we passed a broad...

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If Fox News Ruled The World…

The tax protests which sprouted yesterday in places like Sacramento, DC, and, of all places, The Alamo, were proclaimed to be “spontaneous” by the talking heads at Fox News (who “spontaneously” set up...

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Your Wingnut of the Day

Why it’s Joe the Not a Plumber! Or as his parents know him, Mr. Clean Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. Try to guess what pearls of wisdom he regurgitated on Wednesday at his very own teabagging. “I’m here for one reason and one...

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Incoherent Activism

The problem with these tea parties is that they are really just expressions of unarticulated rage. And any successful piece of activism has to be specific and coherent. Even the core message (Taxed Enough Already) isn’t...

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