“Nazi Medicine.”

I received the following the other day in an email sent to me from one of the finest educational organizations I know, the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. It was originally an essay published on The Huffington Post. It’s a powerful piece of writing, and I wanted to share it with you. Feel free [...]

News flash:

Today, President Barack Obama went for a morning walk in the White House Rose Garden, looked up, and commented that the sky was “really blue”…

Shortly thereafter, conservative commentator Glenn Beck railed that the concept of a “blue sky” was something that Obama learned “at the knee of Saul Alinsky,” and that “blue sky” had also been [...]

Dear Glenn Beck:

Hi.  I know you’re probably having a little bit of a rough patch right now, but I just wanted to help you out a little bit with something that’s been bugging me for a while.
I actually listened to your radio train wreck show yesterday.  Don’t ask me why.  I was running errands and it was [...]

Dear Pat Buchanan:

The other night on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, you went off on yet another long-winded rant about affirmative action and  Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court and the death of white male privilege in America.
As part of that rant, you mentioned the idea that “white people [mainly white MEN] built this [...]

Why I find it hard to take The Huffington Post seriously these days…

Today’s “headlines” at HuffPost:
“Jon Gosselini’s Girlfriend in Party Pictures (PHOTOS)” Whose what?
“Michelle Obama’s Outfits Abroad: Which Did She Wear Best?” C’mon now.
“Jared Kushner, Ivanka Tump Engaged.” WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE???
“WATCH: UFO Flies Off Wind Turbine – What the Heck Is It?” Well, it wasn’t a flying saucer, that’s for sure, if that was where you [...]

Just sayin’…

Ummm… this image seems to have upset some of our more conservative friends and neighbors…

But these?  Not so much, apparently…

Wonder why that is…

Party down.

This morning, I had to endure the every-other-year torture ritual known here in The Garden State as “motor vehicle inspection.”  Mrs. Agitator’s motor vehicle’s time had come due and off I went down the highway, so I could have the honor of waiting in line for more than an hour as I watched some nice [...]

My plans for the weekend are now set.

I’ll be renting every Sean Penn movie I can get my (Mr.) hand(s) on.
Because it’s my time.
Yeah, dude.  Righteous.
So, what’s YOUR  favorite?

News flash…

President Barack Obama LAUGHED on 60 Minutes  last night!
Can you freakin’ believe it?!?
The nerve of our sorta new President.  In the midst of this terrible economic crisis, while we’re fighting two wars and all that, he gets asked an inane question during a softball interview and he has the audacity of humor moment: he chuckled! 
He [...]

Pants on fire!

Breaking news:
Fox News is lying about the Employees’ Free Choice Act.
A shocking surprise, I know.
Reality check here.
And here.
And here, too.
(Video c/o Think Progress)

What he said.

Why On Earth Are Democrats Legitimizing and Empowering Rush Limbaugh?
by Peter Daou
(Huffington Post) March 3 – I don’t buy into this ‘brilliant’ strategy of elevating Rush Limbaugh in the hopes that it will tarnish Republicans.
Focus relentlessly on the disastrous Bush presidency to tarnish Republicans, yes.
Overturn every single illegal and unconstitutional Bush-era policy and [...]

Call this what it is:

RACIST.
It’s that simple.
(More here.  And here.)
UPDATED: Sign the petition here.
UPDATE on the Update: They’ve apologized.  Sort of.

Curiouser and curiouser…

Random stuff I’m wondering about today…
- Why do we give a fruity flying Fig Newton WHAT Rush (“I want him to fail”) Limbaugh thinks about our new President?  Kids, of course he does.  If Barack Obama manages to fix half of what’s on his plate right now in the next eight years (or maybe even better, [...]

My first poll.

Thanks to an idea from Jaliya, I’m polling MY visitors on the same questions posed by those nice folks over at Rasmussen, the poll results touted by the Fake News as a way of attacking teachers’ unions, the poll at least one commenter said I shouldn’t give a rodent’s hindquarters about.
So I’ll ask you:

Next week: [...]

The American Brownshirts.

WASHINGTON (McClatchy Newspapers) October 17 - An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group’s Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month.
Attorneys for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now were [...]

Fear of a black President, v. 2.

Veiled racism seen in new attacks on Obama by Joe Garofoli
(San Francisco Chronicle) October 7 – As CNN’s pundits wondered whether instant post-debate polls favoring Sen. Barack Obama meant he would win on election day, analyst David Gergen – who has been an adviser to Republican and Democratic presidents – stopped them.
“I think it’s [...]

Just. Wrong.

Big Brother and Big Bird by Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin
(dcexaminer.com) September 18 – When it comes to securing the homeland, who better to help you sleep at night than various characters from the popular children’s show, “Sesame Street” … ?!?
Seriously.
 
In a move that will make Bush administration detractors bring back those duct tape jokes [...]

Cancel my subscription.

To the Publishers and Editors of The Philadelphia Inquirer:
I have been a loyal reader and subscriber to your once-fine publication since the 1970s, when I first started reading the paper as a student at Temple University.
Today I am asking that you cancel my subscription, effective at once.
Ever since the paper was sold to you folks [...]

Dear Mr. Romney:

Sir:
Last night, during your angry rant speech at the Republican National Convention, you mentioned the “eastern elites” whom you seem to think “control” the so-called “Liberal Media Establishment” in this country.
All that nonsense about media bias aside (in case you forgot, that’s the same Bootlicking Corporate Media that gave your friend George Bush a free pass [...]

“Katrina’s children still bear the scars.”

Children of Katrina still bear the scars by Leonard Pitts
(Miami Herald) August 24 – You cannot watch Laura Belsey’s movie without ruminating upon the myriad ways we fail our young.
There are many wrenching scenes in Katrina’s Children but arguably the most wrenching is not the girl crying because the hurricane left [...]