Ok, it sucks to have to write what I’m about to write and to be to completely honest, I suck for having decided to write it. But there are things that need to be said in no uncertain terms and things that simply cannot be societally tolerated under any circumstances and you and I are

Are You So Much a Fucking Loser, You Can’t Tell When You’ve Won? One or two of you may just recall my attempt to describe a certain – mostly useless –portion of the American Left in terms of the profoundly negative effect said sect and it’s quasi religious belief system evidences whenever it rears its

Ok so there’s this post debt ceiling budget deal post up at The People’s View called: Paul Krugman is a Political Rookie. Or How Barack Obama Left John Boehner Holding the Teabag, Again. And it’s interesting and nice to see and all that because your friend and humble narrator here is as you may have

To be completely and one hundred percent honest the following topic is one I’ve made a small effort to avoid. But while watching video of Michael Moore’s speech in Madison I was reminded once again of why being a progressive democrat liberal type guy is well … it’s a rough walk sometimes—and reminded that mythology

Yep you guessed it … your friend and humble narrator is still in the mood to leave 2012 behind—and take magic eight ball to the post President Obama Democrats and Republicans and the election of 2016. Here’s How I Summed Up the Likely Contenders the Other Day: “Lets starts with the democrats and by eliminating

Last November’s complete fucking slaughter like mid-term election results hardly need restating so your friend and humble narrator here at 2112 won’t even bother to try.  But there is something about them – last November’s elections and the campaign cycle that preceded it that is – that hasn’t yet been discussed but absolutely needs to

Let me ask you a question. It’s a really, wreally, important question. I’d like you to take a moment, a minute or maybe two to think about it before you answer.  You may also want to prepare yourself.  Ok. Ready? Here goes … Why is the media so obsessed with Sarah Palin? Ok that answer there might

“Someone pointed me to Charlie Wilson’s War the other day. My response was that it was Charlie Wilson’s war that gave birth to the Taliban we know as an enemy today. It was Charlie Wilson’s War that justified building up and training young men to fight the Soviets without any thought or regard to what

The other day I got into a conversation with a co-worker concerning how the right-wing’s off stated desire to partition the country would be just fine with both of us [just as long some manner of land swap could be arranged for Austin]. Now usually that kind of separatist talk amongst self identified progressives would

So at this point it would be somewhere beyond pointless to recount the details of the Shirley Sherrod story, everyone already knows them and I don’t really want to get into it anyway. I want to have my say and ask a fairly simple question about something else – something related and crucial to –