Month: February 2014

Thug State U.S.A. Read It and Weep.

Booman recently posted a response to a comment I made on his post, Rooting Against Russians. My post…as are most of mine these days on this centrist/neoliberal website posing as a progressive blog…was critical of his...

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A Confusing Episode in Ukraine

An innocent field nurse shot through the neck. Yes, 21-year-old Olesya Zhukovskaya was certainly that. An ultranationalist anti-Russian Western Ukrainian who posted numerous links from Right Sector on her VKontakte (Russian...

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Please Spare Me

Oh, for Christ’s sake. Piers Morgan has terrible ratings because he’s a talentless and insufferable twit who wouldn’t know “interesting television” if it crawled up his rear end and sank its teeth...

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Boehner Really Hates the Minimum Wage

I did not realize that John Boehner once said that he would rather commit suicide than vote for a hike in the minimum wage. Sure, the comment came back in 1996, but he has remained opposed to raising the minimum wage ever since....

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