Follow the Money (Part I)

In a post about Arizona’s new immigration law the other day, I naïvely posted this: I estimate that the Border Patrol catches around a hundred illegal border-crossers a day in Arizona alone.  Anywhere you go in southern Arizona, you see Border Patrol checkpoints and the big white ex-Greyhound buses they use to haul the day’s […]

What’s that Smell?

Today on Facebook I posted a link to this photo and accompanying story about a racist NASCAR fan, generating this heated comment from a friend, an understandably beleaguered non-racist NASCAR supporter: Probably the most misinformed bit of drivel written about NASCAR to date. Funny how the “journalist” leaps to unsubstantiated conclusions but would scream bloody […]

What Part of “Illegal” Don’t I Understand? (Part I)

What part of “illegal” don’t I understand? Uh, the part where loudmouthed white assholes get to speed and smoke pot and cheat on their taxes, while American citizens of Hispanic descent have to prove they’re not breaking a law any time a cop looks at them sideways, and oh by the way while Mexicans, Hondurans, […]

Goin’ All Activist: a Nice Surprise

I’m not taking credit for this, but I spent a couple of hours on base yesterday for an annual physical and noticed that all the public area televisions were set to CNN and NBC.  Not one was set to Fox News. I wonder if the letter I sent in September 2009 had anything to do with […]

The Military’s Heterosexual Problem

As of today, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is implementing a military-wide modification to current Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, pending congressional repeal of DADT.  Gay servicemen and women who have been outed by jilted partners or third parties will no longer be forcibly discharged, so long as they don’t out themselves. Since President Obama […]

Reforming Health Care Reform

I thought the fix was in, that Democrats in congress wouldn’t pass health care reform.  But they did.  Nancy Pelosi, you go!  Have you considered running for president some day? Toward the end, the Republican refrain was that passing HCR would hurt Democrats.  But you know what?  Everyone loves a winner, and right now congressional […]

The Salem Toyota Trials, Part I

Document 1: Warrant in the Case of John Alden’s Toyota Camry To the Constable of Salem, Essex Ss Whereas Complaint hath been made unto us John Hathorne & Jonathan Corwin Esq’rs by severall persons of Salem Village that Cap’t John Alden of Boston’s Toyota Camry [that she] is guilty of Witchcraft in cruelly tortureing & […]