tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97072482024-03-13T04:42:19.848-07:00Why Pay More? -- Speaking Truth and Cracking Wise to Power Since 2004.Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.comBlogger1172125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-86047874020614498152010-04-27T12:43:00.000-07:002010-04-27T12:46:14.901-07:00

Here's a thought: What if the Tea Party folks, as currently constituted, were instead African Americans, rallying against a white president and his policies? Wonder how the public and the media would perceive them? Tim Wise at AlterNet has some ideas in a very intriguing post well worth reading. Check it out, kids.

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Editor --A letter writer to the Chronicle today (Letters to the Editor, 4/20) says that people shouldn't be afraid of Tea Party rants and rhetoric, that the groups are made up simply of "people taking an active interest in their government and protesting that it does not represent their views."On the opposite page, Debra Saunders chastises former President Bill Clinton for bringing up the

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Yesterday I deliberately put myself square in the mouth of one of the scariest of beasts in this country today -- the Tea Party rally at Union Square here in San Francisco. A couple hundred members of the Idiot Nation came out to wave their misspelled signs, shout lies and inaccuracies and generally pat themselves on the back for being the FOX-led fledgling fascists that they are. It was a rather

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Ha, this is about 25 kinds of awesome...

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This is the face of fascism. These are the people who are so pig-ignorant, so uninformed and so blindly led by the Fox News media shouters that they are willing to go out and protest a bill that they essentially know nothing about. The level of sheer stupidity here is amazing... and scary. As Noam Chomsky said in the post prior to this one, we need to take the Tea Partiers seriously. They want an

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Chomsky Warns of Risk of Fascism in AmericaBy Matthew Rothschild, April 12, 2010Noam Chomsky, the leading leftwing intellectual, warned last week that fascism may be coming to the United States.“I’m just old enough to have heard a number of Hitler’s speeches on the radio,” he said, “and I have a memory of the texture and the tone of the cheering mobs, and I have the dread sense of the dark clouds

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From Kung-Fu Monkey via TBogg:"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

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Taken directly and entirely from my good friend nashtbrutusandshort's blog, Categorical Aperitif: Culture of LIFE! Telling a Congressman to "bleed out your ass, get cancer and die." Using racist epithets and sending pictures of nooses. Cutting the propane line to someone's house—someone whose address someone else posted online, obviously to encourage acts of intimidation. Oh

Generikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08956298489608222478noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9707248.post-45484574856663247592010-03-25T15:31:00.000-07:002010-03-25T15:33:02.129-07:00

This is hilarious. The new health care legislation just passed by Congress is unconstitutional because... the president used too many pens to sign it. No, really! Go and read for yourself!

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I love this so much I want to marry it.

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Terrible wi-fi in the main library. A scandal, a travesty. Come to the library and let’s hit birds with bricks. There are so many birds outside and it’s awful, awful. They are ruining our wi-fi with their complicated bones, with their too-fast hearts.I can't explain it, I just love the blog called Sexpigeon. You should, too. If you don't, I don't think I love you.

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The Tea Party Movement Is A National EmbarrassmentPosted on Feb 13, 2010By Stuart WhatleyEditor’s note: This article was originally published on The Huffington Post.Last summer, when mass protests broke out in Iran following what was seen as a rigged election, Americans cried out in support of the uprising through all possible channels. Some commentators here went so far as to claim credit for

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My good buddy Jon pointed me to this website of Carlos Miller's, which I think is very interesting and unfortunately more and more applicable to myself and my growing gang of photographer friends. Check it out, kids.

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Shorter Sarah Palin: "We don't want a smart guy... *looks at palm of hand* ...runnin' things!"

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Think Progress reports that the teabagging morons are all up in arms right now and turning against their Queen, Sarah Palin, because she has endorsed her former running mate John McCain in his bid to retain the senatorial seat from Arizona. Apparently the ball-swallowing teabagging crowd prefers someone a little closer to their own ideology than McCain, namely a reactionary, ultra-conservative

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Unfuckingbelievable.

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Here's a great suggestion for what to call the decade that just preceded: The Uh-Ohs, a Decade of Conservative Failure. It surely was that, and more. Check it out, kids.(h/t to my good friend nashtbrutusandshort, who, after a long hiatus, is up and blogging again at Categorical Aperitif.)

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Alan Grayson is My Hero.

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...and Sarah Palin is their Queen.Seriously, the current crop of Teabaggers, Palinites, Dittoheads, Becksters, Freepers and the rest of what constitutes the majority of today's GOP would be laughably comic if they weren't so tragically scary and potentially powerful. They embrace Teh Stoopid with both arms and legs, glorify anti-intellectualism and wallow in ignorance. They don't know nothin' and

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"8:13: 'I see first hand the terrible wages of war.' No, you see the vig on the loan we're making."Just one little comment from the Rude Pundit while live blogging the PreziHope'n'Changenit's speech tonight. Read the whole transcript... if you dare! (And if you have enough rye whiskey at hand. I know I do.)G'wan. You know you want to.Cheers! *gulp*

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Mrs. Generik on Sarah Palin: "She should have gotten more brains and less body."Just another reason why I still love her after all these years.Mrs. Generik, I mean, not Sarah Palin. Just in case anyone was confused.

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From RetroPolitics:“The VA rep, obviously a talented and seasoned government professional, spent the next 20 minutes explaining the regulations and bureaucratic system for homeless veterans who dared to venture in the fox holes of VA services and housing. I think I’m getting old. Or at least after 13 years of fighting government bureaucracy for the sake of hurting people in our society,

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