ONLY MORE MORAL COVALENCE
imagine, if you will, a street in your neighborhood, your daughter, or cousin, or niece, and an occupying foreign Army. . .and if you think Americans are horrible in foreign conquest, and blood...
View ArticleJust about the time you think it's safe to come out of the bunker...
Now, we don’t know who will win next year’s presidential election. But the odds are that one of these years the world’s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively...
View ArticleMoral victory --Tiocfaidh ár lá
Normally, I hate moral victories. But this is a weird day and a weird week and a weird time. I'm still struggling to make enough sense out of what I think about current affairs let alone recent...
View ArticleUmm, about that whole Zionist-Baal thing...They don’t want you to see....
Hardison: Oh, no. All this construction is goin’ on underground. Under, beneath the eyes. The eyes of the world, man. They don’t want you to see. Congress doesn’t know, governors don’t know, Red...
View ArticleThe ultimate summation of adult contemporary rock and roll...
Steve Simmels over at Powerpop has nailed it again, and I feel compelled to acknowledge our alien overlords. David Alan Coe wrote the ultimate Country Song in "You never called me by my name" and...
View ArticleConjuring the ghost while the demon won't go away...
Children now in third grade might graduate from high school without ever experiencing a totally Romney-free day. This is not something I’m happy pointing out. For one thing, I don’t want to believe I...
View ArticleWomba the fool and Homey the clown led by Til Eulenspiegel save the day
As a counter to the GOP’s inquisition of climate scientists, let us remember that in the last year or so, UC Berkeley physicist Richard Muller re-examined all the temperature data from the NOAA, East...
View ArticleHysteria in the face of reality
Never been a big Glenn Greenwald follower and frankly I think that everyone on the Left/Right/floating in the ozone needs to take a deep breath on this one. An enemy combatant had taken up arms against...
View ArticleThis is a Commie-Music and Food Blog you know...with some slacker and...
One of the loose collective of my friends -- The Defeatist-Malcontent-Anarchist Slacker Collective and Bait Shop -- a Vet who's trying to get his band going in upstate New York doing kind of boogie...
View ArticleSo, Eric, about that...seriously? Occupy is putting Americans against Americans?
I guess it is amazing to the the Cantor types that after 30 years of class warfare, the peasants are starting to wake up that hey, my life isn't better. My life sucks compared to my folks at my age....
View ArticleThe problem of hitching a ride in a clown car...
I'm not sure that any of them are left except in the careerist types who went to work for Republican causes like some folks went to work for General Motors, but the rational Republican who rode the...
View ArticleThere are no tears in clown college
Homey the Clown. Krusty the Clown. Bozo the Clown. Herman the Clown.Michelle the Clown. Will someone save us from these meddlesome clowns? Dear god...and, I am an anti-theist. Gail Collins of the...
View ArticleSomething the Brits do better than we do...
I used to read the Times of London primarily for the book reviews and Jeremy Clarkson's columns until Murdoch decided to overcharge for the privilege. I do still pull up The Guardian for a variety of...
View ArticleWhat would Jesus do? Go see Invictus and buy a ukelele
Elevating the tone of the conversation... "What kind of dickhead asks what would Jesus do..."He's the son of god and he shits all over you...you can't do what Jesus do, you're the king of nothing and...
View ArticleWSJ publishes realistic appraisal of recovery's failure; condemnation from...
Reading the Wall Street Journal's editorial page for insight into the economy, business or economics in general -- or just about anything else except the arcane study of the Right Wing elite and where...
View ArticleRemem Rememmember....
The Aryan Pride band Prussian Blue appears to be no more. The world seems marginally richer. Most rational thing said by them appears in the Wiki article -- A 2011 profile in The Daily describes the...
View ArticleWhen will my time come...
When Will My Time Come-- Michael Higgins Uachtarán (President Elect of Ireland) When will my time come for sceneryAnd will it be too late?After allDecades ago I was never ableTo get excitedAbout...
View ArticleCairo the Wonder Dog
One of the charter members of the Defeatist Family, Cairo the Boxer, passed away this afternoon after playing with her sister, Julia the Official Defeatist Baby. AGI and his family are devastated;...
View ArticleThe Joliet Jake Defense and Herman Cain's Schwanze...
There are a lot of people who have been wrongly accused of something -- sexual harassment, theft, spitting in the soup -- and for whom a surfacing accusation could be an embarassment. However, there...
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