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Category Archive: Politics
Oct 30 2012
A Brief History of Obamacare
Click to enlarge By their own admission, Republicans in Congress made keeping Obama to one term their primary agenda: not jobs, not fixing the housing situation, not getting the economy under control. No it was stopping Obama. So any legislative victory had to be prevented, even when the legislation was a gift to Republicans. That’s …
Oct 28 2012
My Election Picks
For those of you living in USA/Texas/Houston, here’s how you should vote: President: Barack Obama (D) Senator: Paul Sadler (D) Representative District 2: Jm Doughty (D) Representative District 7: James Cargas (D) Representative District 8: Neil Burns (D) Representative District 9: Al Green (D) Representative District 10: Tawana W Cadien (D) Representative District 18: Shiela …
Jun 28 2012
Flashback: Dear Mr. President…
Let’s face it, the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”) is a far cry from the public option for universal health care, and its provisions are practically straight out of the 1993 Republican playbook (how it went from “the conservative alternative” to “socialism” is beyond me), but it’s a good day when more people can get …
Jun 26 2012
Inventor
Superheroes are pretty pathetic if you think about it. And the more powerful they are, they more impotent they seem to be at effecting any real change. Let’s face it, instead of spending hours punching bad guys as Batman, billionaire Bruce Wayne could do more a lot more for Gotham by creating some Green jobs …
Mar 06 2012
Burning Question
Click to enlarge. The phenomenon of climate change is well established within the scientific community. Unfortunately, the science is not what you see in the popular media. At one extreme, you have people denying that climate change is real. At the other extreme, you have movies like The Day After Tomorrow showing widespread planetary destruction. …
Feb 21 2012
Political Advantage
Click to enlarge. Do you think Congress seems aloof to the needs of average Americans? Perhaps it has something to do with all their political advantages: The average member of Congress makes $174,000 per year. The average American is lucky to reach $50,000.1 Members get an automatic cost of living increase.2 I’ll bet you had …
Feb 07 2012
Privacy? Please…
In honor of Google’s new worrisome privacy policy and the news that the FBI may be using FaceBook and other social media to spy on Americans: Click to enlarge In the Information age, data is power, and it should be no surprise that governments and companies want as much access to your personal information as …
Nov 25 2011
Let the true November holiday step forward!
Let’s bring back Evacuation Day! Screw those lobsterbacks! Check it! and watch/read this!
Nov 15 2011
Nothing to see here folks…
In the middle of the night the police move in to kick out the OWS protesters. The mayor said it was over health and legal concerns. Thank goodness NYC is run by someone who cares so much about health and legality that he gives no-bid contracts to drink venders in our schools and decides the …
Oct 25 2011
They Just Don’t Get It
Click to enlarge. We (the human species) worked out a long time ago how best to get by in the world. And the theory is tantalizingly simple. It’s the practice that’s a bitch. We can quibble over who really said what (and when), but all the major religions and schools of ethical thought (and many …
Aug 23 2011
Intelligent Design
Click to enlarge. Intelligent Design is a crock. It’s a way to sneak Creationism into public schools and public discourse. Proponents of Intelligent Design (or “I.D.” as it is often known) use “sciency” sounding terminology and sleight-of-hand obfuscation to confuse people who are not up to speed on evolution. And they have been pretty successful—not …
Apr 22 2011
Celebrate Earth Day
Click to enlarge. Celebrate Earth Day the old fashion way: do nothing. Global climate change is here. It’s not about preventing it anymore. We’ve pumped so much CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that even if we were to stop burning all fossil fuels today (which we won’t), we’d still be looking at …
Apr 12 2011
Your Guide to the Budget
Click to enlarge. With all the talk of a government shutdown, you may be confused as to why tax breaks for millionaires are good for the economy, while funding the services necessary for a functioning society is bad. The answer is: you get what you pay for. And by that I mean, if you can …
Mar 22 2011
“Celebrating” the Anniversary of the Iraq War
click to enlarge As of March 20, it’s been eight years since we went into Iraq. You may have missed the celebration, because the U.S. was busy getting involved in yet another conflict in the Middle East. After trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives (and likely ten times that many lives of others), …
Mar 01 2011
Circular
Click to enlarge. Every Wednesday a newspaper “circular” shows up in my mailbox. And every Wednesday I cringe in anger at the enormous waste that it represents. We live in a world of quickly diminishing resources, and this one small item consumes hundreds of otherwise useful man-hours, scores of trees (and the air-cleaning power they …
Jan 25 2011
Get Out of the Way!
Click to enlarge. I’m really sick of hearing that government is the problem—especially from people who rely so thoroughly on government assistance. Big Business in particular benefits immensely from government programs, both directly and indirectly. Public programs may benefit individuals, but they also benefit business. A school not only educates a person, it makes that …
Jan 11 2011
Revisiting: Mixed Media
Click to enlarge It’s astounding to me that “liberal” Hollywood is responsible for corrupting our minds, but vicious right-wing hate speech gets a free pass. I’m not advocating censorship. But if you’re going to take advantage of the right to free speech, you have to take responsibility for the things you say.
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