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Money as "free speech": Colbert, Maddow, & me

Commentary from Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow on the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FED — & my own observations on how the Republican Party has become just as psychopathic as corporations. Continue reading

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About those death panels: The funny and the not-so-funny

These people kept me sane all the way through the presidential election season. Now as more & more insanity spreads by means of the nonsensical pronouncements of former (thank goodness!) Gov. Sarah Palin, and lots of other dishonest, unthinking, & … Continue reading

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Righty-tighty mobocracy

I’ve read two reports now of anti-health care reform protesters at Senator Mark Begich’s health care press conference heckling and shouting down a lung cancer patient on oxygen tanks who was attempting to testify.  The first report came via a … Continue reading

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