The advent of the 24/7 news media and the blogosphere had led to critical attention being focused on the most inconsequential and irrelevant issues I have ever had the misfortune to listen to. This is an open letter to the electorate of all the things I don’t care about but for some ridiculous reason, many [...]

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John McCain recently seems to have little problem uttering such blatantly false and idiotic statements that it  makes President Bush look like a statesman. Today, Sen McCain said that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times.” He said this the same day that investment bank Lehman Brothers filed [...]

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I was duped. Even though I take a critical eye to political language in this blog, I failed to take that same critical eye to the use of political imagery in my previous post. That got me thinking about how much political imagery gets faked and more importantly, how much of it is the general [...]

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Author’s Note: Originally I had a picture in this post of what appeared to be Governor Palin in a star-spangled bikini holding a scoped rifle. I have since learned it was a photo-shopped picture of another woman with Governor Palin’s face superimposed. Since the photo was a fake, I have removed it. The post that [...]

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It’s official. We have just entered into a new Cold War. On Sunday, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev defined bold and assertive guidelines that would define its new approach to international relations. This new policy most notably contains what is effectively the Russian version of the Roosevelt corollary of the United State’s well-known Monroe Doctrine. Re-asserting [...]

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