With all the news of Americans spending less than predicted this holiday season, and everyone worrying and fretting all over the media about how the drop in consumer spending spells doom for all, I have to wonder where our priorities are. If people are spending less on wasteful holiday crap and cars and gift [...]

Vice President Richard B. Cheney   vs.Henry F. Potterfrom It’s a Wonderful LifeWhite haired, balding, bespectacled politician with extensive business interests which have made him a millionaire. Since working with Nixon in the ’60’s, he has been plotting to centralize the power of the Executive branch, something he’s arguably already accomplished as Vice President under [...]

Strange but true, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has entered into an accidental polyamorous relationship.  Her husband suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, and has taken a lover, and Sandra seems to have no problem with it.  Good for her!  She’s setting a fantastic example for poly folks everywhere. Read the USA Today article now. [...]

I’ve noticed that other political news has flooded in, erasing all traces of the conflict that, mere weeks ago, was captivating our collective attention.  I am referring, of course, to the Armenian “mass killings” or whatever Bush is calling it, which some people would like to dub a genocide.  Bush doesn’t want this, supposedly because [...]

Kucinich is my hero.Suddenly, Impeachment Hearings Are Looking Like a Strong Possibility (Daily Kos)Everyone who has free time should write to their local Representative and/or Nancy Pelosi in support of this resolution, which used to be known as HR 333 but is now HR 799.Can you imagine how much of a star Kucinich will be [...]

With all this talk of waterboarding, and whether or not it constitutes torture (it does), lots of people, from everyday citizens to a former Acting Assistant Attorney General, seems to think it would be a great idea to undergo the procedure themselves and report back the details of their experience.But there’s one crowd I haven’t [...]

This is very exciting.  Recent polls have shown overwhelming support (54% of American adults) for the impeachment of one Dick Cheney.  Finally, somebody is doing something about it, and of course that someone is my very own pick for Pres, Dennis Kucinich.  He and his hot Jessica Rabbit-looking wife are sure to experience a huge [...]

This is ridiculous. The White House has censored an official report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which outlines the ways in which climate change will be impacting public health in the near future. They removed the references to specific medical conditions that will result from worldwide climate change, ranging [...]

So Turkey went ahead and started bombing Iraq, trying to kill members of the Kurdish rebel group known as PKK. I don’t think anyone is surprised — they’ve been talking about it all week.But it doesn’t seem like the U.S. was trying very hard to stop it. We were more like Willy Wonka [...]

I’m going to violate the sacred contract of the secret vote and tell you all right now: I’m voting Kucinich. He’s smart, he’s got crazy idealistic plans for the country that I think could actually work, and though he admits to having some form of spiritual beliefs, he’s not some rubbing-it-in-your-face, evangelical wingnut like, say, [...]