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HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION - Dirty Tricks by a GOP Operative

“How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative.” In it, he paints a picture of the corruption of modern politics that should leave no doubt about the creativity and cynicism of operatives like Mr. Raymond or the need for tough new election-reform legislation.  Read more
01/01/2008

The Down and Dirty on the Down and Dirty

Show me a beer that will make me irresistible to an icon of my sexual target. Or do the same with an oven cleaner, or how your political agenda eliminates the toxins of anxiety, and I’ll buy it.  Read more
12/28/2007

This Time Can We Think Harder About the Next Time?

“When you see a little girl in pretty clothes that someone dressed her in, and she’s smushed on the road with her legs cut off, you don’t think, ‘Well, you know, there were Fedayeen nearby and this is collateral damage. They’re just civilians.” Read more
12/27/2007

Who I'm for and why

Casting a ballot is not about making some statement, it’s about which philosophy is going to run the government and thereby affect the lives of us all. Following along the “art of the possible” model, pulling the lever or blackening the bubble adjacent a candidate who has no real chance of winning is foolhardy. What it does is weaken the likelihood an acceptable, yet more electable candidate will actually be nominated, then elected.  Read more
12/25/2007

So Hoover would have jailed me, huh?

A dictator and a tyrant are dictators and tyrants, regardless of the country in which they dwell; exactly as are all in the Bush administration who would suspend for a second any provision that keeps us from their clawing talons reach.  Read more
12/23/2007

Merry Christmas -- Whatever

Merry Christmas, except the one I enjoyed in 1968 was so much merrier, not just for me, but for almost everyone in America.  Read more
12/22/2007

The Politics and Excreta of Ann Coulter Mirror What the Right is All About

Why does Ann Coulter keep getting asked back? She sells cars, and a lot of the other crap so many Americans want.  Read more
12/20/2007

Essential Questions & Points to Ponder

Rather a mess, no? Yes it is, and it’s absolutely, unequivocally a Republican/GOP deregulate everything/monitor nothing (What, you thought the sub-prime fiasco would be consequence free?), dive-head-first into the shallow pool of “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter” policies of trillion-dollar preemptive wars.  Read more
12/17/2007

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