Archive for October, 2008

Post-Mortem Americans

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

The rash of zombie movies in recent years should cause all of us to do some serious thinking about our life-challenged brethren.
I think we need to be more tolerant of other people’s life status. Zombies can’t help that they are zombies, we shouldn’t discriminate against them. In fact, “zombie” is an offensive term. […]

Is Temporary Injustice OK?

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

As part of the lengthy, ongoing debate about the voting age on Facebook in response to NYRA-Southeast Florida’s awesome voting age ad, one person (trying to sound much smarter than he is) posted something about women & youth. While this isn’t the best articulated version of this argument it is one that we get […]

Dumbocracy: Best. Book. Ever. Go buy it.

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

A good round up of the publicity for Marty Beckerman’s new book, Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots:

The critics agree: “Dumbocracy” is the most intelligent thing ever written by anyone, and it will make you laugh hysterically for hours of pure heavenly bliss. Yes, yes, the economy sucks, […]

OJ Simpson Trial 2½: The Smell of Fear

Monday, October 6th, 2008

So OJ is back in court, and this time he is found guilty on 12 new counts of criminality. White folks the world over are celebrating that this murderer has gotten his due. Fifteen years after the obvious miscarrage of justice in that original trial, Orenthal is getting locked away for a long […]