Health care amounts to 20 percent of the gross domestic product of the US economy. Don’t think Obama care will end bean counter and nurse case manager domination of the health care system.” Think… “our panel of doctors has determined that you presented with a pre-existing condition and we cannot cover you.” The former […]

My dad, who died in 1967, was a member of the CIO, the United Steelworkers of America, then when the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged with the American Federation of Labor, the Plumbers Local #55 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was an elected official of that union. The final year of his life, his influence […]

Going all in on the Maverick taking the moral high ground by not attacking Barack Hussein Obama’s non-friend friend the Reverend Wright, the Washington Post does the attacking for him in the form of a newspaper article. Maybe WaPO will win a Nobel Prize for opinion polling when their geeks figure out the algorithm for […]

Stop worrying for a beat about how many white folks are lying when they say they will vote for a “black” candidate, you know, the one McCain flacks are now calling “Hussein”… the Russians are holding sabre-rattling military exercises targeting Alaska, right in Governor Palin’s backyard and you’d think some opportunistic reporter or […]

Stepping to the forefront in the name of public service is the right thing to do. Perfectly tailored physical specimen maybe even drinks the same liquid diet stuff some of the Skins and the Bears do to stay on top of their game. Everybody knew that Shrubby couldn’t run a business. And Lord Cheney knows […]

Not a bad place to start. Where does viral nativism stop and viral terrorism start? The best dim bulb dems can hope for is the Agnewization of the Palins. Maybe the other shoe will drop after the “first 90 days” and the Maverick will acquiesce to having the P’s exit stage right from the […]

What kind of “united” Democrat front will emerge after this 48 hour Clinton stinkathon is unclear. What is clear is that Joe Biden projects Clinton “attributes” walks and talks K Street and that’s “the right stuff” for the bad makeover DLC krewe. Its even better stuff for the GOP, already lobbing in heavy artillery on […]

Recently I was having lunch at the Club Homs on the Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo; its the Champs Elysees and Fifth Avenue of Brazil. For the unannointed, the Club Homs is the preferred gathering place for old-line Brazilians of Syrian origin who emigrated during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Names on the Club […]

by Sasha
This time, in another stunning (ha ha!) example of police incompetence and willingness to use a Taser for no damn reason we have the police responding to a call about a young man lying on the ground under an overpass. In their zeal to subdue the young man — yes, the one lying […]

If America had philosopher kings, George Carlin would have been one.
Carlin looked at the same world all of us do, but saw it differently. He saw connections we didn’t, as in his famous comparison of football and baseball. He could boil down everyday life to an essence that eluded the rest of us, as when […]