Category - Soapbox

"Does anyone else find it ridiculous that our current fool of a President told us all to go shopping after 9/11 but now when we really need to be shopping that jackass has suddenly lost his bullhorn?" [From Margaret and Helen] * * * Given the...

Author Douglas Rushkoff, on the so-called "credit crisis" and talk of bailout plans: ... [To distract us from the real problem, the government provides us with] “wink” reform: stuff that’s supposed to make us feel good while reassuring the...

I'm not interested in being a political blog ... but I love this quote from Senator Bernie Sanders: For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford — that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done...

Ignorance of the Outside World. Until 2007, Sarah Palin didn't even have a passport. [Source - NY Times]. As someone fortunate enough to have traveled extensively, I can tell you with absolute certainty: foreign travel broadens the mind by exposing...

From a 5/20 press release on the ACLU website:The results of an internal Justice Department investigation released today reveal that officials at the highest level of government — including the White House — received reports on the abuse of...

From today's Atlanta Journal Constitution:A Roswell newspaper is defending a controversial cover illustration that placed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in a rifle's cross hairs.Senior editor Tim Altork, responding to the controvery...

Back in Jackson, MS, a law proposed by Republican John Read seeks to ban restaurant owners from serving fatty foods to obese customers. From the AP story: "The bill had no specifics about how obesity would be defined, or how restaurants were...