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• 'Voting is worthless'? Global protests share contempt for democracy

  Wed Sep 28, 2011
  • We have brought this problem with elections on ourselves.  We continually elect self-serving politicians who sell their votes to the highest bidders, the representatives of "big bidness".

• Bachmann: Irene is God's message for Washington

  Mon Aug 29, 2011
  • If there was anyone outside the Tea Party who still considered this woman to have even a trace of sanity, she has surely convinced them with her latest tirade.  Her winning the Republican nomination would be the best news for Obama since McCain selected that other nutty woman as his running …

• How they picked the saddest flick

  Mon Aug 1, 2011
  •  "Old Yeller", a 1957 Disney movie about a boy and his dog is the saddest movie I have ever seen.  I'm seventy and I still get moist eyes when Travis has to shoot Old Yeller, because he has contracted rabies, while defending the family from a rabid wolf.  "The Yearling", about a boy …

• 'Geronimo': Native Americans blast bin Laden code name

  Wed May 4, 2011
  •  I have always been an admirer of the great Apache warrior Goyaałé, given the nickname "Geronimo", by the Mexicans.  Its impossible to get into some else's skin and feel what they are feeling, but I really do not understand why some native americans are offended by the use of a …

• GOP vs. NPR: In the wake of latest controversy at the broadcaster, should federal funding be pulled from public radio and TV stations?

  Wed Mar 9, 2011
  • In a sane world, it would be surprising that any broadcast medium that attempts to be objective and doesn't toe the Republican Party (big "bidness") line is considered liberal.  However, the Tea Potty wing nuts are so far to the right, that fascism is considered the norm, and anything …

• Manning faces new charges, possible death penalty

  Wed Mar 2, 2011
  •  Cheny-Bush drove the country into an illegal war, based on a pack of lies, ran an administration which perpetrated atrocities against civilians, killing a hundred-thousand or so of them more than four-thousand of our troops, carried out extraordinary (and illegal) rendition against whomever …

• Report: Army targeted U.S. senators with psy-ops

  Thu Feb 24, 2011
  •  "Psyops", is what they're calling booze, hookers, and cash these days?

• Congressman resigns amid Craigslist scandal

  Wed Feb 9, 2011
  •  Another "family values" guy headed for rehab, no doubt...

• Which movie did you rush to see?

  Wed Oct 20, 2010
  • I saw both "Blair" and "Clover", but I waited for the DVDs. I enjoyed the former, but the latter was a total waste of time.

• Southern Baptist leader nixes yoga for Christians

  Thu Oct 7, 2010
  •  As a still-recovering ex-Baptist (after some fifty-years), I know exactly from whence ol' Albert's closed mind is coming.  Once I regained my ability to think for myself, as a college freshman chemistry major, I could not find the Baptist Church exit fast enough.  If everyone …