With all the talk of banking reform in the news today, I thought that now might be a good time to remind folks about Lawrence Lessig’s attempts, through his organization, Fix Congress First, to rally support for the Fair Elections Now Act. As I suspect many of you know, regulating Wall Street, while critical, in […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Other, Politics | Also tagged call to action, campaign finance reform, campaign funding, corporate money, Fair Elections Now Act, Fix Congress First, get the money out of Washington, Lawrence Lessig, lobbying, money in politics, Pew Research Center, Scott Brown |
Sometimes, when the Libertarians here on the site go off on a tirade about the evils of government regulation, and how the world would be a much better place if only we’d only trust in the power of unfettered Capitalism, I like to remind folks that there was a time not too long ago in […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, energy, Environment | Also tagged Ayn Rand, Brian Ross, coal, coal mining, Don Blankenship, free market parables, Friends of America Rally, global warming denial, greeniacs, Hank Williams Jr, Harman Mining Corporation, Labor Day, Libertarianism, Massey Energy, mining, mountain top removal, Nightline, safety, Sean Hannity, strip mining, sulfur dioxide, tea party, teabaggery, Ted Nugent, Upper Big Branch South Mine, West Virginia, Whitesville |
As you know, our country is sick. Many of our friends and neighbors have succumbed to a peculiar form of mental illness known as teabaggery? It’s been traveling, like a virus, through the population for about a year now, and, I’m sad to report, it’s finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court. According to reports in […]
Posted in Politics | Also tagged 24, Clarence Thomas, Glenn Beck, Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College, insane people, Liberty Central Inc., Obama's socialist agenda, pubic hair on Coke, Supreme Court, tea party, Tea Partyfication, teabaggery, that evil Socialist Barack Obama, Virginia Thomas |
By Mark | October 20, 2009
I feel guilty, but I’m going to take the next few hours off to catch up on my TV watching. Here’s something to keep you occupied while I’m gone, though…. [This post was brought to you by the work safe goatse, the Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Bronson Pinchot.]
