“Skilled in the art of defending plutocrats”
Earlier I posted about the bailed-out banksters who would very much like to pin the mortgage fraud debacle on people like us, who bought their crappy mortgages and who, in many cases, got foreclosed on...
View ArticleLazy-ass Blogging: Saturday Night Short Cuts
Glad the Yankees lost, although I was hoping for a Giants-Yankees World Series. Guess I’ll have to settle for Texas’ cinderella team getting theirs asses whupped (yeah, I know, first things first –...
View ArticleThe Ineffable Laziness of Blogging: Eat the Rich Edition
Once again slothfulness has gotten the best of me, so I’m just going to repost this entire righteous screed by Bill Quigley that recently appeared at Common Dreams, since it says everything that I...
View ArticleIf Your Recession Lasts More Than 99 weeks…
More lazy-ass blogging: Once you get past the Viagra commercial, this 60 Minutes piece on unemployment in Silicon Valley and environs is pretty good at showing what the face of long-term unemployment...
View ArticleWaiting for the End of the World, Part Two
Life has been very hard. I had divorced myself from my body. I treated my body badly, I treated those I love badly, I had an overwhelming sense of disassociation from everything. Like wrapping...
View ArticleTake A Bow for the New Revolution
Well, what a week that was. It started last Saturday, when I attended the San Francisco version of the Rally to Restore Sanity. Several hundred people were there to wave ironic signs and watch Jon...
View ArticleHeckuva Job, Bushies
Digging America’s grave: Never has a single photo captured so well the banality of evil, Republican-style. Ms. Condi Rice, who failed to prevent the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil. The...
View ArticleWelcome (back) to the Machine
Starting next Tuesday, I will once again be gainfully employed. Hence, you will be seeing even less of my sorry ass than you have lately. I will try to compensate by writing at least one post a day...
View ArticleWho Needs the Enlightenment – We All Look better in the Dark
The thing I love about the Wall Street Journal is that it boldly wears it’s pro-business, anti-humanist credentials on the outside, making no apologies for the oligarch-fluffing, poor-people-be-damned...
View ArticleSaturday Night Shortcuts
T minus three days and counting until I rejoin the machine and become a productive member of society once more. In the meantime… Decisive decisionmaking: Alberto “I don’t recall” Gonzales, aka George...
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