I stopped reading after he bludgeoned the songbird to death.

But let me back up.  

I first heard about Manny Howard when he was a guest on The Colbert Report.  Howard turned his Brooklyn home and yard into a farm, with the challenge to live off it for a month.  


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I had a genuine question recently: In what sense is Sarah Palin a feminist?  In what sense does she work to support the rights of women?  No one was able to answer that question.  Telling, no?

I did some digging, and here is what I have learned: Sarah Palin's feminist theory has two planks:

1.    Vote Republican!
2.    Overturn Roe V. Wade and make abortion illegal

To give her credit, Palin talks a good talk.  She uses phrases like "Moms just know."  Empty meaningless jingoist phrases which may as well be hawking peanut butter or breakfast cereal.  But when you get right down to it, you've got those two things.  Vote Republican; down with abortion.


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Miss Philippines-No Mistakes

No mistakes at 22. Or so claimed Miss Phillipines during the Miss Universe pageant last night. Pageant pundits believe that this may have cost the very talented and beautiful young crown-holder the chance for a title as Miss Universe.

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How would you feel if your child went to his third grade, secular classroom one day and was instructed that he was going to attend a religious class without your permission? A class that, rather than demonstrating different viewpoints and allowing constructive discussion, serves to only indoctrinate children in one religion—a class that taught your child that only the Muslim faith is the way to live (and die)?

This very thing happened—only, instead of a Muslim class, it was a Christian one. If it were a Muslim class, do you think this behavior would’ve even been allowed in any secular school district? If it were a Wiccan, Buddhist, or even Jewish “little church on wheels,” as this program was described, not only would the whole situation have probably been avoided entirely—but entire communities be outraged, too.

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We have all been there. A restaurant outing with friends and family is made disastrous by bad service. I am talking about cold food, snotty servers, waiting what seems like years for a refill... you can set the scene I am sure. What is the right thing to do in this situation? What is the proper etiquette? Is it okay to just stiff that guy slinging out your food and drinks who is obviously having a bad day? Well...

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too dreamy to be a rapistEver since people invented the idea of utopia there have been stories of dystopia. In the 20th century the most influential dystopian works were the novels of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, a short-lived idealist and an all-around proto-hippie, respectively. When not fighting in foreign wars and taking mescaline, Orwell and Huxley penned fiction about how people in positions of power would one day use technology to enslave the bodies and minds of all mankind. Of course, their take on the future of techno-politics was more informed by early 20th century fascism than anything looming in the world's wealthiest republics. Like pretty much all science fiction of the 20th century (and don't you dare start talking about Snowcrash), Orwell and Huxley's work failed to anticipate the Internet. People have thus always assumed that if we ever got an all-knowing information network, a true Big Brother, it would be under the absolute control of a power-mad few and not the unmanageable chaos we have today. That's why Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has become something of a modern day folk hero instead of a steely tyrant who hates free thought, and also why people currently in power hate him enough to hunt and harass him.

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MurdochJust got an email from Media Matters concerning the $1 million donation the News Corp, parent company of Fox News, donated to the Republican Governors Association, "to help defeat Democrats this November."

Media Matters reports that while the news of the donation was covered "extensively," by national media outlets, it was barely mentioned on Fox. Media Matters says, "Fox devoted 37 seconds of air time to the story." Media Matters figures -- because, the "Fox viewers have been left in the dark, as to the (Fox) network's direct involvement in the political races this fall," it needs to take action to remedy this. So the folks at Media Matters' solution is to put a commercial (see the video) about the Fox donation on Fox, by buying a national ad, at the cost of $35k, to air next week during The O'Reilly Factor.

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By now everybody has heard about the phony rape charge against WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who last month leaked 90,000 secret military documents about the Afghan war, and ticked off world governments, including ours and members of the U.S. led coalition. See the video.

Dude says he is going to release a second round of leaks.

The dude should stop with any new leaks. He proved his point.

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Sarah 'the silly talking' Palin's "reload" comment, in defense of race-ranting-mouth Dr. Laura Schlessinger, has brought the guns on Sarah.

Dr Laura announced that she is quitting radio, because her sponsors announced that they are quitting her, because she ranted the 'n' word at an African-American lady caller, who unwisely phoned the quack shrink for advice. Sarah jumped into the boiling brew like the buffoon she is, with a high school girlish tweet.

" Dr.Laura:don't retreat ... reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair")• Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!

Sarah the dummy. Can't be that dumb, can she?

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Folks concerned about the Supreme Court's notorious 5-4 decision, which makes it possible for corporations, foreign owned and controlled ones too, to buy, to purchase, to acquire politicians and political parties, wholesale, by giving them bribes, I mean, campaign contributions, have jumped on the "Boycott Target" bandwagon, as a way to send a strong message to corporations, that if they want to play the partisan political game, they had better be ready for the consequence, which could be a consumer boycott of their product.

The Target Corporation made a substantial cash contribution, $150,000, to a political PAC, which supports a right-wing, anti-gay rights, political candidate for Governor of the Target Corporation's headquarters state, Minnesota.

MoveOn.org has joined in the boycott of the Target Corporation and has placed a 'Boycott Target' ad on the Internet. See the video.

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