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  “Whenever you think the Tea Party can’t get any dumber, they get dumber. Now they’re in love with Donald Trump. Because nothing says ‘We’re serious about fiscal responsibility’  quite like a billionaire whose corporations have filed for bankruptcy three times.” ― Bill Maher

In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself

In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself Wislawa Szymborska The buzzard never says it is to blame. The panther wouldn’t know what scruples mean. When the piranha strikes it feels no shame. If snakes had  hands, they’s claim their hands were clean. A jackal doesn’t understand remorse. Lions and lice don’t waver in their course. … More In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself

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“I was sixteen years old when the first World War broke out, and I lived at that time in Hungary. From reading the newspapers in Hungary, it would have appeared that, whatever Austria and Germany did was right and whatever England, France, Russia, or America did was wrong. A good case could be made out … More Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

“Whether it’s the Clintons with their foundations or Al Gore with his movies and his carbon-trading interests or the Bush/Cheney axis of hereditary politics and energy commerce, we expect the politicians who make it to the big time to cash in somewhere along the line because, hey, this is America. Donald Trump, if elected, would … More Quote of the Day

Snake Oil

I am a political junkie, and as an ex-pat American and typical immigrant, I follow the politics of the old country obsessively from my adopted home of Canada. On the day of the New Hampshire primary, I was driving to meet a friend for coffee and started to search  the car radio for an American … More Snake Oil

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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely … More Quote of the Day

Sarah Silverman Introduces Bernie Sanders

This video of comedian Sarah Silverman introducing Bernie Sanders is amazing. It captures much of the sentiment that underlies the enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders and his battle to win the Democratic nomination for President. By now the oligarchy in America is so entrenched, and the money in American politics is so corrupting that an honest politician … More Sarah Silverman Introduces Bernie Sanders

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“Hillary lies! Bill lies! The Clintons lie! Bernie Sanders tells the truth and is tossing garlic and holy water in the face of those vampires who want to suck the blood of our nation’s poor and middle class, trickling it up to the plutocrats who are now running our country. It is obvious that Hillary … More Quote of the Day