The Smug Baldy Speaks

The recent murders of an American doctor in his church, and of an American security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC stand out as two examples, although depending on who you listen to, they’re seen as examples of different things. One camp says that these are tragic examples of crazed and depraved lone [...]

Back during the 2008 election, these t-shirts came out, and lots of people were put in a weird spot. After all, it’s generally inappropriate to make fun of unwed pregnant teens, and in political campaigns a candidate’s children are usually off limits. But time passed, and the strange set of social contradictions that surrounded Sarah [...]

Last July, I wrote in favor of bringing back the Congressional Office of Techchnology Assessment, or OTA. This was the non-partisan, scientific advisory body that was eliminated in 1995 by Newt Gingrich and other newly empowered republicans. As we now know, during the subsequent years, including the entire tenure of the Bush administration, the Republican-controlled [...]

Welcome 2009. I thought I’d comment on something that doesn’t seem to be getting a great deal of play in the media just now. During the landmark 2008 US Presidential Campaign, Republicans across the US took a strong, wrong-headed stand on energy. What was their proposed solution to soaring gas prices? Simple – open previously [...]

Saw this over at stupidevilbastard.com – this stuff really tastes as sweet as it looks.

Some people – myself included – suspected that the presidential debates weren’t debates as much as they were shared stump speeches. Based on the evidence in this video, we find this suspicion is well founded. Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com. Thanks to Matt for the heads up!

The final presidential “debate” is past, and both Barak Obama and John McCain are taking their largely negative campaigns into the home stretch. Interestingly, lots of people are critical of negative campaigning, despite the fact that it tends to work. One of the things I find even more interesting is that while both campaigns are [...]

So said late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, reminding us that public policy created openly, in the light of day, tended to be better than policy created behind closed doors. We’ve seen disaster after disaster brought on by the Bush administration and it’s penchant for deception, half-truths, and closed-door antics. But now, as the winds [...]

On the seventh anniversary 9/11, Keith Olbermann has the courage to speak out against Republican Party for using it as a political tool.

If YouTube views were votes, then we’d be talking about President Barak Obama, and how he beat John McCain by a whopping 50 million votes. Below is a screenshot of the YouTube politician channel, and as you can see, Obama has over 1100 videos with over 54 million views to McCain’s 216 videos with just [...]