Brazenly Liberal 2.0

Line up, Bekkybekkystanstanians! Your turn to be counted!

Admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:09:43 +0000

6, 999, 999,999……….7 billion!

Holy Crap, that’s a lot of people. And no, despite the preponderance of evidence, they’re not all ahead of you in line at the supermarket while the muzak serves up versions of oldies close enough to the original to make you line-boogie and bad enough to make you terrified someone [...]

Crazy Stupid Horror Story in California

Admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:04:43 +0000

In Oakland, California, an Iraq War veteran participating in Occupy Oakland was struck by a tear gas canister, fracturing his skull. As other protesters tried to come to his aid, more tear gas was fired at them. This is video from Current TV of Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment.

Will America once again react [...]

A Classic Bit from the GOP Clown College Class of 2012

Admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:56:54 +0000

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 [...]

So what, exactly, is the new normal?

Admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:24:18 +0000

If you have a TV or radio machine, you’ve heard it’s here, but what is it? I wondered, too, and rode the Google through the intertubes to find the answer:

It’s higher bank fees, winning three slams in a year, calling in sick, and teetering on the brink. It’s social, it’s frugal, it’s green. [...]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:18:58 +0000

When these little creatures survived a recent New Zealand oil spill, they needed sweaters to keep them from picking off the substance from their feathers.

See more photos of birds in knitwear!

Now this is my kind of holiday!

Admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:32:12 +0000

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

Admin — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:01:38 +0000

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 [...]

Battleground Chicago: The Police and the Protesters

Admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:05:58 +0000

Other officers suggest it was as simple as …“I’m not sure how people think that we should have been able to tell these people apart; they didn’t look any different, they didn’t speak any different, dress any different, their signs said the same thing; they were trouble—we read about them, and they spoke of causing [...]