Not My Mother's Blog

There are some things I hear repeated day after day that just drive me nuts. These little nuggets of “everybody knows it’s true” misinformation form the building blocks of really really huge lies that are getting sold to us as THE TRUTH. They get repeated so often that people simply accept them as fact and [...]

I did mention a few days ago that I adore Zbigniew Brezinski, yes? He just totally totally solidified everything I’ve ever felt about him. Morning Blowhard was blathering away in his usual style, reacting indignantly that “you can’t blame the current Israeli/Palestinian situation on the Bush administration” and then he hit it with a comment [...]

For the past few weeks, media figures from all the networks, newspapers and talking heads have been repeating the misleading talking point that UAW members at the Big 3 make the equivalent of $73 an hour in salary and benefits. Media Matters has consistently corrected this (at the Washington Times), day (at Fox News) after [...]

So all right. I’m not an economist. I don’t have any letters after my name so I’m talking from a pure common sense perspective here. After reading about how our tax policies encourage corporations to invest in jobs overseas, I have a suggestion for economists to mull over and poke holes in. The Harvard Tax [...]

Sarah Palin & Spiritual Warfare Let’s talk about unsavory association for a moment. Forget the Alaska secession and take a look at what the people she prays with believe. They believe that their prayer is responsible for death and destruction of those who are ‘against us’ – and who is that? How about Mother Theresa [...]

This has been hanging around in my drafts folder for a while – just another of those musings on things that I’m hearing coming out of the non-media. Gotta love the delusion that makes this sound reasonable: Ever since Obama announced that (finger-quotes) the gloves are off (finger-quotes), every time I question anything about his [...]

The McCain-Palin Mob Just watch it. Hat-tip to Clarus Visum for this one: If ignorant hate was currency, one rally could bail everyone out. Can I have that on a t-shirt? Please? CV also asks a question that’s been bubbling in my mind for days – are they trying to rile up some kook to [...]

As of now, I am probably relegating myself permanently to the wingnut conspiracy-theory sideshow. I’m going there because for a few years, I flirted with the edges of the Warrior of God religious right – and I recognized it in her from the night she stepped up on the stage and said she’d be thrilled [...]

And didn’t she show America last Thursday night!! (yeah, that she’s a fucking shameless liar and a huckster) The person who will, with your help and the help of God, the next vice president of the United States (what is God doing in my politics? And do you really think that He is rooting for [...]

Can someone please explain to me how this makes sense in our world or any alternate world you can imagine? It is my understanding the numbers on wall street today are due to the increase of unemployment figures,people that have been living off of their credit card lines can not get credit even with credit [...]

I’ve been trying to formulate a post about ‘how stupid are the American people’ for a couple of days now. It’s one of those things that I remember I’m doing whenever someone points out some other ridiculous statement by the McCain campaign, or bit of idiocy out of Sarah Palin’s mouth and people exclaim, “Surely [...]