What The Register-Guard Didn’t Tell Oregonians

Here is a cautionary tale about small-town newspapers, journalistic ethics, ethics and how the press regulates itself, since courts, police and politicians are — wisely — barred from doing so in about 99% of all cases.

Once upon a time …
There was a politician from Eugene named Vicki Walker.

And So, Grasshopper, What Have We Learned?

I’m going to post a brief, zenlike followup to yesterday’s terrifically inappropriate Mother’s Day post.
I’ll begin with the assumption that you’re proficient enough in mathematics to know that it is over. The long Hillary Clinton most-obviously-contrived-to-run-for-president-campaign-in-history is going to come up several delegates short.

We watched it begin, in a sense in 1993 when the freshly [...]

What do you do with an uppity nigger? and other songs of the Apocalypse

i. you could work for me, boy. wouldn’t that be great for you?
The blog title is not only nauseatingly accurate, but was carefully chosen to frighten off the faint of heart.
Because I’m not going to pull my punches in the face of coded racial epithets. I’m speaking of Jeralyn of TalkLeft, (who, with Taylor Marsh [...]

No Blog Today

Cut finger bad.

Can’t type.
Mañana.
Courage.

Why There Is No Blog Today

Frankly, I have been scanning the various information streams, and the news is universally stupid.

Rome is burning and we seem to be in the middle of a fiddle festival, so it would be pointless — not to mention fundamentally rude and insensitive — to make sense during such an unadulterated soufflé of dumbassitude.
Therefore, in the [...]

Today

Dear World:
MAYDAY!
MAYDAY!
MAYDAY!
Sincerely, yer pals,
The U.S.A.

Walpurgisnacht: How Dumb Are The Democrats?

Walpurgisnacht, 2008.
You know, according to Pope Sextus the Fifth (or by his Borg name, Pope 6 the 5) or, Yogi Berra (I can’t remember which), the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I have been watching seemingly every sane body in America throwing the Reverend Jeremiah [...]

NEWSWEEK’s Southern Accents, or, Told ‘Ja So!

And call me Cassandra ….

Long time readers are familiar with my concern over the whole Neoconfederate/Old South direction of national (and especially GOP) politics.

Podcast Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

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BLOG ENTRY: “GOP Smoking-Gun ‘Wright’-Wing Hypocrites” 25 April 2008

Dante and His Poem, by Domenico di Michelino (1465)

ABC = KKK?

You need to recall something important in the whole “Reverend Jeremiah Wright” “controversy”: ABC’s Brian Ross and his Burka Babes* launched this INTENTIONALLY. They purchased all available sermon tapes and found the sound bite heard ’round the world.
[* BRIAN ROSS, AVNI PATEL and REHAB EL-BURI, see "Barack Obama as Nat Turner" from March 19.]
And when [...]

GOP Smoking-Gun ‘Wright’-Wing Hypocrites

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[Note: back from spring cleaning, sort of. Mostly done. More to do this weekend. But the blog is back from hiatus -- HW]
Why didn’t they walk out? On September 17, 2007, less than one week after the 9-11 anniversary, America was damned in front of the GOP candidates — and they sat there [...]