The Sunshine Empire

This video from the Mr. Show boys basically explains the Republican (A wholly owned subsidiary of Tea Party USA) view of self worth.

As I write this at midday Sunday, it appears that our long national debt-limit increase nightmare will soon be over. But the great crisis of 2011 will be looked at post-mortem as both a victory and a failure by elements of both sides of the aisle. It has proven several things true politically, and revealed [...]

You may have already seen it but it deserves watching again. Further demonstrating how far-afield the modern Republican party has gone from the legacy of their Christ figure, I give you Reagan advisor Bruce Bartlett on the debt ceiling and taxes. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

me: HA! Reminds me of my favorite bad art joke Sarah: go ooon me: What’s the definition of Baroque? . . . When you are all out of Monet Sarah: pfff lol those are from different centuries me: Baroque is a bit ostentatous for my taste a poor man’s Rococo Sarah: rococo is a lot [...]

For decades the 40th president of the United States has been the God Emperor of the conservative pantheon. After the disaster of Nixon and Watergate, and the uselessness of the bumbling Ford, it was only natural that movement conservatives would latch on to such a strong and charismatic leadership figure as Ronald Wilson Reagan. Yet [...]

America’s sad weakness is danger, and that’s exactly what has us in the situation we’re in with the debt ceiling. In true Hollywood style we all get a thrill from seeing the nation in that chase scene, always just about to go headlong off a cliff. The reality of the situation is immaterial to us, [...]

After the Site-Flight from Myspace to Facebook years ago and the rise of Twitter, the world of social networking has been a two dog show. Facebook has grown to such a behemoth that companies have now eschewed placing their own websites at the end of their commercials and now just refer to their Facebook pages. [...]