Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
I absolutely love this OpEd that Warren Buffett did for the New York Times about just how ridiculous it is that we don’t tax the super rich more than we do here...
Tag: politics
confused by the debt ceiling thingy
I’m going to come right out and just admit that I don’t really understand this whole “debt ceiling” thing. Maybe it’s that I don&#...
Better to be a racist or a homophobe???
This story from today had me a little conflicted… Counter-Protesters Confront Westboro Baptist Church at Arlington http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/30/arling...
A Few Moore Thoughts on Bin Laden’s Death…
I don’t really have anything left to say about this, but Michael Moore wrote a really good blog post with some final thoughts about Bin Laden’s death, the war o...
Orly Taitz is a crazy person.
Have you ever really dug in deep with these birther folks? I mean really deep – like up to your shoulders, wondering if you’re ever going to see you...
A Nation Divided Even in Victory
If you ask me, this is both a very proud time and also a very embarrassing time for our country. On one hand, Sunday evening we finally saw some sense of closur...
the media is half the problem, and idiots are the other half
It’s stories like this that really make me frustrated with our mainstream media today… CNN Investigation: Obama ‘birther’ claims have no merit http://edition.cn...
The global embarrassment of a government shutdown…
I’ve got to admit that I haven’t really been paying much attention to this whole “government shutdown” thing until today, but the more t...
tough to be a teacher
I feel really bad for teachers here in the state of Florida right now. Our new nutjob governor has declared some kind of war on education and decided that it wa...
the politics of vacation time…
So I came across this great/depressing chart over at one of the failblog sites this evening: Now keep in mind that this is looking at government mandated vacati...