Monthly Archives: October 2009

The “initiative” process, pioneered by Oregon in 1904, as a means of stopping corrupt and bribed legislators stalling needed reforms has been co-opted by the corrupters and bribers to STOP the Oregon legislature from making needed reforms. Continue reading →

Rush skated on the “Magic Negro” controversy because “liberal” reporters didn’t bother doing their legwork. Just like he skated on the hillbilly heroin controversy because it was a “prescription” drug. Well, so’s cocaine, but if Rush bloviates long enough, the outright crime will go away. He’s learned that at some point: A rationalization a day makes the criminality go away. Continue reading →

But now it’s all been neatly swept under the rug, and the only person in this whole sordid mess who actually took a principled stance, Mayor Mark Kruzan of Bloomington, is left to be pilloried by the likes of Mister Tibbs. Continue reading →

But you don’t carefully deconstruct a moose shit soufflé. You FLING it artfully into the nearest trash receptacle in which its foul stench won’t waft about and alarm the neighbors. Continue reading →

The modern incivility in political speech began as a studied technique, mud-slinging and media manipulation in a media-saturated age, and it has remained and thrived because it WORKS. Continue reading →

… before morning, October 7. Meantime, the panel is on Comcast Channel 23 from 7:30 to 9:00 PM tonight. (Locally). The topic? “Incivility in our current political debate.” Or words to that effect. Courage.