Plastic Farm AnimalsOur latest hero, Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, came out with a whopper of a speech in his address to the United Nations yesterday. I mean, Wow! And every word of it true, except perhaps for the bit about the scent of sulfur still wafting from the podium where Bush had given his address earlier. […]
Ohmygod – how much more blatant can the Media-ocracy be! Yesterday, President Bush named Tony Snow, a talking head from Fox News, as his new press secretary. A corporate sponsored mouthpiece for a corporate sponsored administration. How painfully appropriate! Just another slash to the wrist of American Democracy, just another nick in the death of […]
Depending on which country you are speaking Spanish in, huevos can mean either eggs or, er… cojones (meaning “balls” or a brash attitude.) If there was any way to connect the two, it might be with the story of the European Common Cuckoo. This bird lays a huge egg in the nest of another species […]
George W. Bush, chief representative of Global Corporatism, i.e. the Imperial World Order, swooped down upon India last month to negotiate a landmark nuclear pact with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Predictably, not everyone is happy with the agreement. According to this story: Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., a co-sponsor of bipartisan legislation that would block the […]
Kurt Vonnegut pulled out a slew of catchy one-liners for his audience at the Ohio State campus March 1st. Among them: “all the money that should have gone into research and development has gone into executive compensation. If people insist on living as if there’s no tomorrow, there really won’t be one.” “war is a […]