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Fuck You, Sticker

Posted by Neil Cleary on Mon, Apr 26, 2010

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Ah, yellow ribbon… so we meet again. I remember first learning to hate you back in the era of Bush I / Iraq I as you became the de facto anti- anti- war emblem. Those were heady times. I was a young idealist, you were a star in one the greatest shell-game boondoggles ever perpetrated [...]

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On the Health of a Nation

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Wed, Mar 24, 2010

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The ink is barely dry on President Obama’s 20-pen signature on health reform, and the legislation has already gone from “Red-hatched scourge” to “pretty sweet deal” in the glazed-over eyes of John and Jane Q. Public. Dems are understandably excited about a USA Today/Gallup poll showing that 49 percent of Americans are pleased with the bill’s [...]

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I’m a Lamestain

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Thu, Mar 4, 2010

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Last night I was feeling nostalgic, which is rare. Not for anything in particular, mind you — it was just a feeling of having misplaced something… my youth, perhaps. You see, I was born in 1974 and came of age in the late 1980s-early-’90s, thereby witnessing the genesis and proliferation of “grunge.” Looking back, I’m glad I [...]

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Corporate Persons are Jerks

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Feb 14, 2010

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Here’s a pictoral follow-up to yesterday’s analysis of the SCOTUS campaign finance decision. From BigFatWhale:

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Crap, I Missed the National Prayer Breakfast Again!

Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Thu, Feb 4, 2010

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I had every plan to attend the National Prayer Breakfast for the purpose of infiltration (and maybe some light deal-making — I always wanted to be installed as the puppet dictator of a “developing” nation). Yet somehow I snoozed. There were calls for President Obama to skip this affair, which is sponsored by the Fellowship Foundation [...]

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