amfortas the hippie

Boo Hoo. “I don't wanna be “forced” to keep Arsenic out of the chicken I sell.” Boo Hoo “I don' Wanna share the planet with pe...

(at least that's how I've been pronouncing it...) Charles Koch is disappointed. (http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/c...

It began in earnest about an hour ago(9pm, CDT), in my Left Big Toe. As if it were in a vise. It quickly spread through the Gravel Ankle...

(or, Gowdy-Doody gets trapped in a broom closet) (I ain't gonna vote for her in the Primary, but this pic is priceless) Mr. Gowdy ...

Sinclair the Prophet I've been avoiding News for several weeks...which means that I have limited my news consumption(unpack that term...

My youngest son came home the other day and said he needed me to write a note giving him permission to read the Hobbit. I was taken aback...

So the Pope invades Washington DC...says a bunch of stuff that sounds a whole lot like Jesus...and Boner of Orange sees the light, throug...

So.... Fake Videos are Real. Obama is a Kenyan Socialist/Commie/Muslim/Fascist. Vaccines Cause Disease. Supply Side Economics was a ...

(just something that's been rattling around in my brain for some time) I've never cared for guns. Loud and dangerous, and often...

Debbie, I was under the impression that we were the “Democratic” Party. As such, I had assumed that we would at least try to embody,som...

It's “Patriot Day”, and the firetrucks are lined up around the square, and the networks are eschewing whatever is actually happening...

Oh, look: (http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2015/09/08/bring-back-war-drugs/h2wWV7ojkje4P5dwIbmgPK/story.html) Bill Fucki...

This, from one Kwame Anthony Appiah: “If cultural difference isn't the heart of the problem, then teaching people to respect other c...

(and the things to be found underneath) …................................................. I've been busy, of late. Construction of ...

I'm reading a particularly dense and scholarly book,”The Enlightenment and it's Effects on Modern Society”, by a Professor at the ...

I was as surprised as anyone else, when polls showed Donald Trump as the frontrunner...in spite of the GOP “establishment's” efforts a...

and what went wrong with economics The problem I have with “fiscal conservatives” is different in some ways than the problems I have with...

Swallowed Up, but.... (http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/20/report-msnbc-ditch-liberal-hosts-move-left-wing-tv.html) ...We can still b...

Behold:(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/05/the-largest-grocer-in-the-texas-is-now-rationing-eggs/?tid=sm_fb) Ent...

A Libertarian Free Market Fundamentalist was arguing with me the other day. I took exception to the statement that “the American Left is...

“”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienabl...

I was shocked this week to be confronted with someone who insisted that some giant majority of welfare recipients are deliberately having ...