That’s The New Yorker’s satirical way of showing that when you portray all the crazy Obama smears in one illustration, you get a very ridiculous picture.
The magazine is making fun of the nuts that believe all the crazy stuff about Obama being a Muslim; that he was sworn in as a U.S. Senator on a [...]
Archive for July, 2008
What the Right Wingnuts Want You to Believe
Published by July 14th, 2008 in Election 2008 and Humor. 0 Comments
Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
Calvin Trillin
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The latest Saul Williams album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, was released on CD last week. I bought my copy at Easy Street Records in West Seattle, and I could not help but notice that of all the albums featured on the new release rack, it was the only one sealed in [...]
Bill Moyers explains why:
Our media institutions, deeply embedded in the power structures of society, are not providing the information that we need to make our democracy work. To put it another way, corporate media consolidation is a corrosive social force. It robs people of their voice in public affairs and pollutes the political culture. And [...]
President Bush signed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 that was passed by the Senate on Wednesday with the help of, as Paul Krugman put it, the “coalition of the craven” Democrats.
Bush gave a short speech before signing the bill that basically went like this: “FEAR! FEAR! FEAR! I WILL PROTECT YOU!” But because his [...]
Because Democrats are Cowards…
Published by July 9th, 2008 in Arts & Leisure and Politics. 0 CommentsMore than two and a half years after the disclosure of President’s Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program set off a furious national debate, the Senate gave final approval on Wednesday afternoon to broadening the government’s spy powers and providing legal immunity for the phone companies that took part in the wiretapping program.
Barack Obama voted FOR the [...]
There really is magic in those mushrooms
Published by July 1st, 2008 in Miscellaneous, News and Technology. 0 CommentsFor years I have believed that everyone should experience, at least once, a full fledged mushroom trip. A 2006 study shows that the long term effects of such a trip are both profound and positive.
From Wired magazine:
For the 2006 study, Griffiths recruited 36 people who hadn’t previously taken the drug. Six were given a ritalin [...]
