tonight i am officially an emoprog.

July 31, 2011 in Montana

by problembear our one chance to actually make great strides in health care reform in this country when obama came into office was squandered when it was handed over to the insurance weasels who wrote the bill that passed. and tonight obama caved on everything the tea party demanded regarding raising the debt ceiling. it [...]

Political Campaign Ad Watch

July 31, 2011 in 2012 Election, Corporatism, Montana

by jhwygirl The Sunlight Foundation, always an excellent source for information much like the Pew Research Center, has an ongoing collaborative effort out there to monitor and document political campaign ads for the purposes of understanding how money moves in elections. I’ve added the Sunlight Campaign Ad Monitor over there on the left under “Citizen’s [...]

The Glue that Binds

July 31, 2011 in Culture, idiots and weasels, National security, Obama Adminstration, Politics, War

By CFS A favorite theory of mine about the fall of the Roman Empire states that centrifugal force (outward) eventually became too much for the centripetal forces (inward) to counteract in the whirling machine that was Roman society.  The costs of holding the Empire together became too much for the benefits of Empire to overcome [...]