After reading this excellent article in the Rolling Stone and then looking up Kleptocracy in Wikipedia, the only question left, is why are we all not screaming at the top of our lungs?

The web is abuzz with the latest outrage from ABC/Disney. There is a hate-filled talk radio station here in San Francisco called KSFO, owned by ABC Radio, and a local blogger got ticked off enough by their programming to go and do something about their hate speech. The blogger – Spocko – posted MP3s of [...]

From a Newsweek article: Between the endless photo lines and the back-to-back holiday receptions, President Bush is sitting down for extensive briefings on Iraq that go well beyond the highly staged statements and pictures seen to date on TV. In a series of 45-minute sessions, Bush has worked through a steady program of question-and-answer exchanges [...]

Whenever somebody says “We can’t leave Iraq immediately!”, the person has to immediately present a realistic plan on whatever else they want to do with the country. The plan will have to follow these guidelines: Use no more troops than the US can afford (that’s 200,000 without a draft) Don’t rely on other mythical sources [...]

If you’ve been reading some of my previous rants you already know my opinion about the American-made disaster that the war in Iraq has become. It took the leading class in Washington a lot longer than I would have thought, but it seems the dimensions of this clusterfuck are now slowly sinking into the American [...]

When a country loses its ability to take care of its people, when it loses the energy, the will and the means to help the needy and to take care of its infrastructure, then such a country is broken. When it ceases to function as a system of community-sponsored support, then it becomes a burden [...]

Bush was asked if his administration was planning for the possibility of a nuclear strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. “All options are on the table,” he said. Since the White House seems to have misplaced their only copy of the large-print history of the 20th century for pre-schoolers, here is a quick refresher on what [...]

I just listened to George W. Bush on NPR giving an adlib statement about his press secretary who seems to have found a functioning escape capsule to get away from the exploding Death Star that this administration has become. President Bush sounds like a broken man… he was hemming and hawing even more then usual [...]

If you want to measure how advanced a civilization is, you should check on how the weak members of society are treated. Are the poor taken care of? Are the elderly living without fear and in comfort? These are the really important questions, because every single one of us aspires to become part of the [...]