A life at the end of history
Posted in Politics on 5 November 2008
It’s safe to say that millions of Americans are saying tonight: “At last, I’m no longer ashamed to be American.”
An historic election, indeed, has seen an African-American elected president. It simply blows the mind. Even better, Barack Obama is the genuine article. The calm and judicious words he chose for his acceptance speech held no [...]
Posted in Politics on 3 November 2008
Race and slavery are America’s original sin. The election of Obama would be, beyond question, one of the noblest gestures of historical redemption that Americans have ever been called upon to make. — Martin Kettle
America is standing yet again at the crossroads. The nation did so at its beginning, during the Civil War, and during [...]
Posted in Politics on 27 October 2008
How else is McCain going to win? Threatened with the biggest wipe-out since that other Arizona Repuglycan, Barry Goldwater, lost damn near every state, McCain has had to throw every fear ‘n’ smear tactic in the books at Barrack Obama. So far they haven’t worked. But wait, didn’t he just guarantee an election victory?
Was that [...]
Posted in Politics on 21 October 2008
As the November 4 election draws closer, between four percent and eight percent of those polled remain undecided as to whom they will vote for. How is it possible that after nearly two years of election campaigning they still cannot make up their minds?
Are they simply stupid? Indeed they are, and here John Oliver of [...]
Posted in Politics on 16 October 2008
Well, folks, October 29 is the 79th anniversary of the crash of ‘29. Today there are similarities galore, with the months-long roller coaster ups and downs of greed followed by fear preceding the deadly date.
Surely, it can’t happen again?
Then, it took a Democrat to get the country out of the financial profligacy of previous Repuglycan [...]
Posted in Politics on 3 October 2008
Bill Maher is right: Most Americans can’t be trusted because they’re too dumb. Just look at Fox News. Everyone else thought Biden’s substance beat Palin’s fluff but, last time I checked, the text-ins on Fox had Sarah ahead 86 per cent to 12. And the little room of undecided inbreeds on hand to assess the [...]
Posted in Politics on 8 September 2008
Resembling, as she does, one of those hopped up zombies featured in George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, or Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, Sarah Palin is out to shove those here come the injuns, circle the wagons values of fear and righteousness down the world’s throat.
Yep, with the addition of this square-jawed, gingham-wrapped, [...]
Posted in Politics on 5 September 2008
Move over Family Guy, Umeruhca’s got what it really wants: a sitcom based on the family values of genital erasure (except for the production of fast faith Christians), chuckleheaded creationism, nationalistic hubris, anti-intellectualism, and guns for one and all.
Alaska’s pistol packin’ mama, Sarah “Annie Oakley” Palin’s address to the Repuglycan convention was a winner on [...]