Ricky Gervais: How Hitler Would Interpret Nietzsche
Posted on January 7, 2012 in Videos
The Hypocrisy Of Rick Santorum
Posted on January 7, 2012 in Political Cartoons
Yep, Rick Santorum’s wife did in fact have an abortion.
The Cult Of The GOP: Reflections From A Former Member
Posted on January 6, 2012 in Articles
The Article: Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cultby Mike Lofgren in Truthout
The Text:
Barbara Stanwyck: “We’re both rotten!”
Fred MacMurray: “Yeah – only you’re a little more rotten.” -“Double Indemnity” (1944)
Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten – how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot. The main reason the Democrats’ health care bill will be a budget buster once it fully phases in is the Democrats’ rank capitulation to corporate interests – no single-payer system, in order to mollify the insurers; and no negotiation of drug prices, a craven surrender to Big Pharma.
But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP.
To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. To be sure, the party, like any political party on earth, has always had its share of crackpots, like Robert K. Dornan or William E. Dannemeyer. But the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today: Steve King, Michele Bachman (now a leading presidential candidate as well), Paul Broun, Patrick McHenry, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Allen West. The Congressional directory now reads like a casebook of lunacy.
Can I Follow It Now?
Posted on January 6, 2012 in Videos
Forget That You’re Young by The Raveonettes off of Raven in the Grave.
