In the South, we like to call it a bubba thing. It’s the arrogance that grows only from an extreme lack of knowledge serving as a cover for ignorance. It’s a mentality best embodied in the redneck’s famous last words, “here, honey, hold my beer…watch’is,” as he guns his four-wheeler up the pile of...
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The GOP once found Fox News convenient and useful. Having an entire network at a political party’s disposal is very useful, indeed, and unprecedented in American politics. But it’s been quite evident for a while that rather than the GOP controlling Fox News, the Fox has been put in charge of guarding the GOP...
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This is reform is nothing like the reform following the excesses that led to the Great Depression. No one on Wall Street is out. The big banks will continue to suck money directly from taxpayers and good, decent ‘Murkins. The rich will continue to get richer and the poor (the remaining 90 percent of...
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"Say, General, when you’re not off fightin’ and snake-eating and stuff, what do you do for fun?”
“Um…er…excuse me, Mr. President?”
“You know, what do you like to do on your down time? I like basketball and golf and reading. You read much, General?”
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It was not all champagne and roses, let me tell you. We only managed a forth place finish, due to extremely poor crew work on the start. The sandwiches were mushy by lunch time and the beer a bit flat.
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Let’s look this up in Politics for Dummies. Yep, there it is…page 174: “A good political strategy is ALWAYS taking up for major multinational corporations who are responsible for the worst environmental and social disaster in the history of the United States.”
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