Bipartisan Indignation Gives Way To GOP Demagoguery
Posted on 13. May, 2013 by Lucy Raed in Current Events, Politics
It is a rare state of affairs when you find the sane people of the United States agreeing with the Republican reactionary establishment on any point, but it is difficult (or at least politically inexpedient) to come out on the side of censorship in the United States. On Friday officials at the IRS admitted that, [...]
The ‘Red Line’ The U.S. Crossed Long Ago
Posted on 27. Apr, 2013 by Lucy Raed in Analysis, Politics
The cheerleaders of the military industrial complex are revving themselves up for yet another American misadventure overseas. Sketchy, second-hand reports have appeared that seem to confirm the limited use of sarin gas by forces under the control of president-for-life Bashar al-Assad against Syrian rebels. President Obama had previously marked the use of chemical weapons in [...]
Miranda Does Not Confer Rights, It Reminds You Of Them
Posted on 21. Apr, 2013 by Theodore Roe in Current Events, Politics
My original plan was to write about some civil rights abuses currently going on in the Muslim world. Just the other day in Turkey, Fazil Say became yet another in a long line of artists convicted of the crime of denigrating Islam. His mode of defilement? Twitter! Amongst these tweets was a quote from a [...]
There Is No Alternative: Thatcher Destroyed Great Britain
Posted on 10. Apr, 2013 by Lucy Raed in Analysis, History
A mighty tyrant passed from this world recently. No, I am not writing about Hugo Chavez, though the person I have in mind has much in common with that bombastic and verbose dictator of resource-rich Venezuela. Both he and my subject have a meticulously-built cult of personality surrounding them, dappled generously with strong hints of [...]
Portman Punts On GOP’s Anti-Gay Party Planks
Posted on 16. Mar, 2013 by Lucy Raed in Current Events, Politics
Rob Portman, a conservative windbag that until recently viewed gay men and women as some sort of second class citizenry, has suddenly decided maybe it isn’t such a bad idea to let those sodomites do what they like, instead of having them “be put to death” (his religion’s solution for that “problem” – see Leviticus [...]
Secret Agent Rodman Worms His Way Into The Hermit Kingdom
Posted on 05. Mar, 2013 by Theodore Roe in Current Events, Politics
If you’ve managed to not watch TV, use the internet or listen to the radio this week, there is an outside chance that you’re unaware of a certain trip by a washed-up ex Chicago Bulls player to the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea. Dennis Rodman, basketball all-star, movie icon and children’s book author, made beaucoup [...]
A Trimphus For The Conquering Hero
Posted on 22. Jan, 2013 by Theodore Roe in Analysis, Current Events
Here we are, back at the beginning. Four years ago I wrote an article, Panem Et Circenses On The Potomac, chronicling the epic overindulgence of the raucous coronation of our Lord and Savior King Barack Obama. The 2008 Obama inauguration was such a spectacle of waste and excess that this comparison is not difficult to [...]
Supreme Court To Hear Landmark Gay Rights Cases
Posted on 09. Dec, 2012 by Lucy Raed in Analysis, Current Events
This has been a major final quarter of the year for sanity. First President Barack Obama soundly trounced his backwards, flip-flopping corporate raider opponent Mitt Romney, and has taken this mandate to the next level by refusing to extend tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans at the cost of the 99%. Then, in a move [...]
Robertson Stands Pat… On Evolution?!
Posted on 03. Dec, 2012 by Theodore Roe in Analysis, Current Events
Pat Robertson, the grand poobah of all things wacko-nutso in “mainstream” fundamentalist Christianity, made a scandalous revelation last week. The man who blamed 9/11 on gay people, Hurricane Katrina on American abortion laws and Port-au-Prince’s killer earthquake on an ages-old pact between the Haitians and Satan, was recently confronted with a serious question from (what [...]
Jesse’s Dereliction Of Duty
Posted on 25. Nov, 2012 by Theodore Roe in Current Events, Politics
Jesse Jackson Jr., absentee congressman that won his spot in the U.S. House of Representatives back without even campaigning for it, has resigned his seat, thus ending another chapter in the Chicago Machine’s greedy, back-stabbing, money-grubbing story of political domination. This caps (for now) a political career that can only be considered remarkable because of [...]
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