Obama Give Us the Face-Fart.

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Monday March 21, 2011 · 11:02 AM PDT

2011/03/21 · 11:02

Back in high school and college, my peers and I would occasionally show extreme disrespect to each other by shoving our butt as far into a victim's face as possible while ripping a nice big fart.

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Monday October 18, 2010 · 4:33 PM PDT

2010/10/18 · 16:33

My favorite horror film came out in 1978, but I started living in a horror film in 1980. In celebration of the season of Halloween and Mid-Term Elections, I offer you a meditation on the interweaving of these subjects.

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Tuesday October 05, 2010 · 10:01 AM PDT

2010/10/05 · 10:01

The complete and utter failure of the Democrats and Obama administration to achieve any meaningful reforms or solve any significant problems has not only demoralized the liberal base. The administration's supreme loyalty to corporate and plutocratic interests is of such a magnitude, and is so woefully out of synch with the needs of the people, as to create a crisis of confidence extending far wider than the current crop of office holders.

It is now reasonable to ask bigger questions: Is the federal government redeemable and sustainable?

Political commentator and cartoonist extraordinaire Ted Rall tackles these questions in his new book, The Anti-American Manifesto, currently available at your favorite internet book seller.

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Thursday September 09, 2010 · 1:08 PM PDT

2010/09/09 · 13:08

"Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies."-The Guardian (UK) 9-9-10

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Friday August 27, 2010 · 12:54 PM PDT

2010/08/27 · 12:54

I've become accustomed to the ubiquitous manufactured controversies of our media, but my sense is that the current anti-Muslim media blitz is of a different order. To say the least, it makes me uncomfortable.

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Thursday August 26, 2010 · 1:29 PM PDT

2010/08/26 · 13:29

It's not PC to talk about the festering anti-Islamic bigotry in our armed forces, but if we ever want the US to truly stand for human rights we'll have to confront this issue some day. Here is a 'running cadence' (chants sung by troops during conditioning marches or runs) that I found on a website used by Marines and Marine Vets. The cadence has a frequent usage of the word 'Haji', which is the word our military uses to describe Afghans or Iraqis.

(In case you have to ask, I find this verse repugnant as I do the usage of ethnic slurs, but I think we ought to know that our war dollars are subsidizing a lot of bigotry and hate.)

Here's the source from which I obtained it:

http://www.leatherneck.com/...

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Wednesday November 25, 2009 · 3:25 PM PST

2009/11/25 · 15:25

Every year some MSM tool wheels out the bogus 'War on Christmas' in an attempt to show that the left is godless, pagan, satanist, or, worse yet, secular humanist. I say this year we give them a real War on Christmas, but not the kind they are thinking of.

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Wednesday November 11, 2009 · 12:33 PM PST

2009/11/11 · 12:33

The matron of our collective consciousness, the Media, celebrates 2 past events this week and covers a current happening, yet again, we learn nothing.

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Wednesday October 21, 2009 · 12:59 PM PDT

2009/10/21 · 12:59

On 8-21-09, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, America’s largest Lutheran denomination, voted to allow ‘monogamous’ gays to become ordained as pastors.

And yet, per the New York Times, 10-20-09: ‘The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism -- a surprise move designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.’

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Friday January 16, 2009 · 1:01 PM PST

2009/01/16 · 13:01

Since Heath Ledger won the Golden Globe award Sunday night, I finally rented a copy of the blockbuster film, 'Dark Knight.'

Ledger's performance was awesome of course, but what really wowed me about the film was that it is a relentlessly effective fascista apoligetica.

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Friday December 26, 2008 · 2:43 PM PST

2008/12/26 · 14:43

A timely reveiw of a first hand account of the Colonel's Coup (Greece) in 1967, by a survivor of state-sponsored torture:

I Should Have Died by Philipe Gigantes (writing as Philip Deane)

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 1:36 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 01:36

Let's turn this British celebration into our own institution!

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