Writing about bumper stickers for progressives
We have always been the 99% — those Americans who don’t make a killing each year but are just trying to get by. We’re students looking for a future that isn’t so bleak. We’re teachers who make less and are expected to do more every year. We’re clerks and nurses and carpenters and the unemployed [...]
We are the 99 percent that does almost all the work in America, yet gets only a tiny share of the wealth. We are the 99 percent that holds America together, but gets shut out of the political discussion in Washington D.C. We are the 99 percent that keeps on being asked to take all the sacrifice, while the top 1 percent gets more tax breaks and subsidies.
War is the Answer, all right. But what is the question? If the question is “How can we preserve the practice of drafting child soldiers?” then war is the answer. If the question is “How can we blow 4 trillion dollars in a decade?” then war is the answer. If the question is “How can [...]
The big-necked Speaker of the House may think he can shut down the government, but he can’t shut you down. He can’t shut down your right to free speech. He can’t shut down your indignation at the gall of it all. He’s wrecked the country like Republicans seem to need to do every decade or [...]
David Dreier should choose to retire himself, or voters, in the primary election or general election of 2012, will choose retirement for Dreier.
Every time I read someone on the internet proclaiming about the evils of socialism, how government never gets anything right, I find myself wondering if they are aware of the origins of the internet itself. And every time I come across a bumper sticker condemning socialism on I10 or I40 or I90, I wonder why [...]
Nine members of the Hutaree sect of Christian fundamentalists are up on federal charges of plotting to kill police officers for Christ. It almost sounds funny, doesn’t it? I mean, come on, the group names itself Hutaree, and is led by people named “Captain Hutaree” and “Guhighllo?” What a laugh, huh? And then we remember [...]
A Blue Dog Democrat is nothing more than a GOP elephant trying to make an ass out of itself.
In 2010, the rallying cry for progressives is: Blue dogs belong on children’s TV, not in our Congress.
Irregular Bumper Stickers