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THE Watering Hole, Wednesday, 7/11/12: The New Republican Conspiracy
Tweeter scoops the Mainstream Media yet again. REPUBLICANS PLAN TO PRIVATIZE THE COURTS According to Tweeter, The Zoo’s investigative journalist par excellance, a vast Right-Wing Conspiracy is planning...
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The Watering Hole, Thursday, August 23rd, 2012: Roe v. Wade, “Personhood”...
What I started out researching for today’s thread, and what follows, bear little relation to each other. I had wanted to explore the history of Presidential nominees whose campaigns included promises...
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The Death of a Nation (a retrospective on the W. Bush era, Part 9: THE CEDING...
Below is the final essay in my compilation which I collectively entitled The Death of a Nation. It was written in March, 2005, shortly after George W. Bush’s second inauguration. Sadly, not much has...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, October 7th, 2013: All the Crazy That Fits
It’s been a while since I put on my hip waders and stepped into Newsmax, so here’s a few gems: From “Rev. Billy Graham Prepares ‘Perhaps … My Last Message’” by David A. Patton: “In an exclusive...
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Watering Hole April 15, 2014 Open thread- Wingnuts have standoff with BLM –...
“Federal authorizes have said Bundy owes more than $1 million in grazing fees he has not paid for 20 years. Yet Bundy, 67, has reportedly said he does not recognize federal authority on land he insists...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, April 21st, 2014: SCALIA: JUSTice REVOLTing
Why does Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia keep giving us more reasons to question his fitness for his job? It’s not like he hasn’t provided ample evidence of judicial bias over the years, the most...
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The Watering Hole: Tuesday September 23, 2014 Environmental News and Food...
So the climate march was big, almost 400,000 in New York. Will it change anything? Did 500,000 marchers stop the Iraq war from going forward? Well the UN Secretary marched in this one, but I’m afraid...
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The Watering Hole, Monday, November 3rd, 2014: Strange Laws
I’m too nervous about the elections tomorrow, so I’m going to avoid politics. I found the following odd state/town laws here at brainjet.com: Alabama: Bear wrestling matches are outlawed. Alaska: It’s...
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The Watering Hole; Thursday December 18 2014; HELP!!
OK. Here’s the thing. The electoral system in the US has been hijacked by the Supreme Court, by big money, by Congress, and by emergent power structures in the several states. How’d that happen? A...
View ArticleThe Watering Hole: Wednesday, June 20, 2012: Does it really Matter?
Ok, so for the next few months, if you’re in a “swing” State, you’ll be inundated with SuperPAC commercials designed to get you to vote against your own best interests. We will also be systematically...
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