Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Sweet mother, bail me out!
I’m curious about something. Why is it that I, as an American taxpayer, should be responsible for bailing out people and companies that, in essence, screwed themselves over with stupid decisions? Make no mistake, that’s what the Bear Stearns collapse and subsequent bailout is. They banked on — no pun intended — and likely precipitated [...]
Demographics of sex scandals
I don’t have a ton of time — work pile up, etc — but this thought struck me and I had to go take a look. Since 1990 there have been somewhere around 40 documented instances of a sex scandal involving politicians. Perhaps unsurprisingly they are split almost smack dab in the middle between Republicans [...]
Hypocrisy ahoy!
Poor Georgia Congressman Jack Kingston. He’s so put upon. You may recall he was one of the bellyachers complaining at the inordinate amount of suffering that would be caused if Congress was forced to actually work for 5 days like the rest of us American slobs. “Keeping us up here eats away at families,” [...]
In which hypocrisy and misdirection are discussed
Mid-term election time, what a joy. A time when the general populace can choose from two equally misguided factions of people trying to run the country into the ground. Bitterness, thy name is ColdForged! But seriously, what’s a fellow to do? The Republicans have draped themselves with the habit of the pious, courting the religious [...]
I feel safer
If you get caught beating the shit out of alleged terror suspects in various places throughout the world and you get called on it and you’re the President of the United States, what do you do? Well, you pass a law to make it okay. While you’re at it, make it okay to hold alleged [...]
I’d consider this humor were it not so pathetic
You’ve heard about it. Hell, your aging mother probably heard about it from the neighbors. The media and politicians are certainly up in arms about it. What is “it?” It’s the “hot coffee” mod for Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas of course, a hack that allows infants to view — hold yourself — polygons that look [...]
That’s a nifty dance move!
They’re certainly doing some fancy butt wiggling in the old Oval Office. After originally stating that anyone involved in the leaking of a covert intelligence officer’s identity would be fired, now we hear that the bar has been raised. “If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.” One can imagine [...]
Iraq War Casualty Map
An interesting use of the recently released Google Maps API is the Iraq War Casualties Map. It shows, by increments of 30, the homeplaces and details of the American casualties of the Iraq War. Pretty compelling. President Bush just made a visit near our neck of the woods in North Carolina. To be honest, I [...]
