Posts tagged "Uncle Sam"
Mad Sam: Beyond 2016
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
This journey, though it must be made, isn’t going to be easy. Simply replacing Republicans with Democrats—“Voting Blue No Matter Who”—won’t by itself solve any of the numerous problems the country currently faces, and indeed has faced for decades…
Bomb Appétit
Thursday, January 18, 2018
In a time of unprecedented plenty, as well as an ability to meet the basic needs of every person on Earth, America’s number one material and cultural export remains warfare…
World Wrestling
Thursday, March 27, 2014
International superpowers, like the US and Russia, express the “superiority” of their respective cultures, economies, or systems of government, by using smaller, less-powerful countries, like Iraq and Ukraine, as the venues for gaudy, muscle-flexing sideshows…
Fear and Loathing on Fox News
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Fox News is an addictive, mind-altering substance, used by its most dedicated viewers to escape reality to a paranoid, fantasy world… Their approach to the news is gonzo journalism’s perverted, evil twin. Instead of using the trappings of fiction to report the truth, Fox uses the trappings of truth to report fiction.
Get Rid of the Seaward
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Tags: anchor, Arrested Development, Barack Obama, boat, Congress, Do-nothing Congress, drowning, GOP, Lucille Bluth, Obama, ocean, President Obama, Republican, Republican obstructionism, Republican Party, swimming, Uncle Sam, water
Sweeney Magoo
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Tags: barber, blind, blindness, budget cut, Congress, cutthroat razor, debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, haircut, mirror, Mr. Magoo, sequester, shave, Sweeny Todd, Uncle Sam
Goin’ Galt
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Tags: Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, cliff, dive, Galt's Gulch, grand canyon, John Galt, Mr. C.E.O., Objectivism, suicide, Uncle Sam, William Edward Hickman
Political Auction Committees
Friday, May 11, 2012
Several weeks ago, I read an article discussing how much Mitt Romney had to spend per vote to win the Republican nomination, as well as the projected influence of Super PACs over the 2012 Presidential Election. The headline alone had me immediately reflecting on how the Presidency, as well as most significant political power, is more often bought than it is earned…
Hard-Earned
Friday, March 9, 2012
This cartoon, of course, refers to the latest controversy belched forth by perennial conservative blowhard Rush Limbaugh, who called Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” (and creepily argued that she owed him sex tapes) on his radio program, following her Congressional testimony on the importance of birth control to women’s health…
This is Bat Country!
Friday, September 9, 2011
Following the World Trade Center attacks, we’ve seen an explosion in industries that buy and sell fear: private, for-profit militaries like Blackwater and corporate propaganda bullhorns like Fox News have enjoyed terrific windfalls from such camera-friendly human misery, and they’re clearly more than happy to exploit them…