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U.S. Ingenuity Produces World’s Most Peculiar Governance

playjerist wrote 3 days ago: From the nation whose fervid, roaming minds produced the Ronco Five-Tray Electric Food Dehydrator an … more →

Tags: Arts, Books, Culture, democracy, Government, News, Politics 2

Evil May Be Just the Thing

playjerist wrote 1 week ago: One undeniable benefit of living in America has long been the comforting continuity of our political … more →

Tags: Arts, Authoritarianism, Books, Civil War, Culture, Life, News, Politics 2, radicalism

Republican Desecration of the Benghazi Dead is the Scandal

playjerist wrote 1 week ago: More or less typifying the flesh-eating cynicism that has spread through today’s Republican Party li … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Political, Republicans, Libya, News, obama, House of Representatives, Benghazi, hearings

Insanity Wins, Lying Depravity Lives, Ignorance Prevails, Nitwittery Rules & Alcohol Still Works: How to Throw in the Towel for the Time Being and Still Be Happy: Part Two

playjerist wrote 2 weeks ago: What’s so hard about simply accepting that the sun rises up every morning in the west? What do you c … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Books, Arts, Culture, News, Entertainment, Benghazi, Life, austerity

A Young Person’s Guide to the Looming Dark Age and the Joys of Fatalism

playjerist wrote 3 weeks ago: In an age of enforced ignorance looking good is going to be more important than ever, for at a time … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Books, Arts, Culture, News, Life

Grand Illusion: One Nation, Definitely Divisible

playjerist wrote 3 weeks ago: Jean Renoir’s celebrated film Grand Illusion, a humanistic ode to common humanity, in this case the … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Books, Arts, Culture, News, Life

Democrats Join Republicans to Shove Large, Brown, Baby Ruth-Shaped Object Down America’s Throat

playjerist wrote 4 weeks ago: It’s unsettling enough for a liberal Democrat such as myself that Republicans always play hardball w … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Books, Arts, Culture, News, Life

CISPA Boom Bah: Go You Internet Ratfinks

playjerist wrote 1 month ago: American business and American government together and separately have a long, rich history of tryin … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Books, Arts, Culture, News, Internet, Life

We Are All Hooterville Now

playjerist wrote 1 month ago: Anyone preternaturally cheerful in general, nationalistic or optimistic about America’s future … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Books, Arts, Culture, News, Life

Self-Deporting from Candy Land: In Defense of Hatred, Conquest & Blood Lust

playjerist wrote 1 month ago: In fairness, a hard fought contest of Candy Land can be a rough business. Extreme Candy Land, even m … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Books, Arts, Culture, News, Life

For the Discerning Suicidalist Ten Exquisite Reasons for Killing Yourself

playjerist wrote 1 month ago: 1. Climate change. Never has so little been done about so much. It’s as though Noah got a 20-year he … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Books, Culture, News, Life

Code Blue in Red States

playjerist wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been feeling nostalgic for the days when news of the latest rightwing, radicalized Republican a … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Republicans, News, radicalism, sharia law, Abortion, red states, North Carolina, establishment of religion

The Republican Cannibals: People Who Need People1 comment

playjerist wrote 1 month ago: It is entirely possible America’s right wing demonstrates its love of America’s ordinary people in s … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Republicans, News, Republican, Conservatives, Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Feudalism

Other Than Being a Moral & Human American Debacle the War in Iraq was a Booming Success and a Real Hoot1 comment

playjerist wrote 2 months ago: Like millions of Americans in the summer of 2002 when assorted flaks for the Bush administration beg … more →

Tags: Politics 2, News, dick cheney, George Bush, Iraq War, WMDs, War crimes, weapons of mass destruction, iraq

The Pope, the Queen, Ayn Rand and other Useless Bobbleheads

playjerist wrote 2 months ago: I was going to throw in the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, but he does spend a lot of time thinkin … more →

Tags: Politics 2, News, Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand, The Pope

The Media’s Feckless Appeasement and Washington’s Lazy Consensus: A Love Story

playjerist wrote 2 months ago: There they go again on television with the timeless argument between the ideologies and the politica … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Republicans, News, Budget, Deficit, Debt, Medicare, media, Sequester

Liberty Stinks

playjerist wrote 2 months ago: One can’t help but suspect that Libertarian visionaries and conservative ideologues of the sort now … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Political, Republicans, News, koch brothers, Ayn Rand, regulation, deregulation, Wall Street

Go to Your Sequester Panic Room and Stay There Till the Republicans are Dead

playjerist wrote 2 months ago: Anyone highly educated in the ways of zombies knows that it is very important to stay put when they’ … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Political, Republicans, News, House of Representatives, Deficit, Medicare, Ayn Rand, John Boehner

Dr. Zhivago and the Giant Sequesterfuck

playjerist wrote 3 months ago: I’ll use this snippet of dialogue from Dr. Zhivago as often as necessary to reiterate the mena … more →

Tags: Politics 2, Political, Republicans, News, Tea Party, Budget, deficits, Debt, John Boehner


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