It’s better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps…

...Teddy Kennedy

Please bear with us while we attack this shovel ready infrastructure project

The ratbastards at our webhost having caused the loss of 5 years of posts and site customization, we are starting over. It’s both a stunning loss and a fresh start. Our members will have to re-register. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and hope you can find a way to see it as a fresh start, too.

So onward and upward, eh? Welcome to 2.0 — Allons-y!

Does Your Senator Think You Should Pay a Higher Tax Rate than Mitt “Thurston Howell III” Romney?

Yesterday, the Senate voted on cloture for  S.2230, Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012.

A “yes” vote means “Sure, I think the cost of maintaining a civilized society should be assessed fairly.”

A “no” vote means “No, I think the fabulously wealthy  should get some help paying the exorbitant cost of installing elevators for [...]

Romney SpokesGoofs: Meet Alan Gottlieb!

Overcompensator of the Year!

This is Alan Gottlieb – tax fraud, convicted felon, and founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. We do NOT want to know what his hands are doing under the frame that gives him that look on his face, but isn’t this pretty much what you always kind of assumed those shrill shrieky gun nuts [...]

A Classic Bit from the GOP Clown College Class of 2012

It used to be every circus had a clown car – a funny looking little car that held a seemingly impossible number of full sized clowns, big shoes and all. And here it is – an homage to the classics from the GOP Clown College Class of 2012. Just when you thought that primary car [...]

Now this is my kind of holiday!

October 25 is Sourest Day, the desperately needed counterbalance to Sweetest Day. I’m so happy about the free rein to be grumpy, I may not be able to take advantage of it!

24 October

Today is United Nations Day.  Nearly a quarter of the United Nations regular and peacekeeping budgets comes from the United States. In 2011, that came to about $2.4 billion – a small price to pay for keeping the planet functioning. Sort of.  The UN has been called, with some justification, a toothless tiger with little [...]