Wishing Upon a Star: Aborting the Perception of Reality (0)
5/24/13 •
The recent conviction of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has been a gift from the gods for America’s right-to-life activists. A practitioner of gruesome, late-term abortions, Gosnell was convicted of murder for utilizing brutally effective techniques that would make anyone cringe in disgust and disbelief. For Star Parker, who has made a career out of [...]
Fresh from the Grove
Let’s Play Benghazi – A Game of Double Standards (0)
5/23/13 •
Like a strong cold front sweeping across the country, the propagandists of the right are united in their condemnations of the Obama Administration’s handling of the attack on the U.S. “consulate” in Benghazi, Libya, during the 2012 presidential election. The central thrust of their current political operation is that all the president’s men conspired to [...]
Only the Terrorists Can Save Us Now (0)
4/28/13 •
While the propaganda of plutocracy meets with occasional resistance from a populace that understands threats to the pocket-book on an instinctive level, the closely related propaganda of imperialism generally escapes scrutiny from a citizenry that is largely immunized from its costs. For most of the elderly readers of America’s remaining newspapers, the notion that America’s [...]
God, Guns, and Bullshit: From Freedom to Fetish in the Home of the Brave (0)
4/27/13 •
Truly, these are halcyon days for the American gun lobby, an essential part of the country’s massive military-industrial-agribusiness death complex. As we predicted in the wake of the Newtown massacre, the organs of society that supposedly represent the will of the people have done nothing to restrain the distribution or use of lethal weapons. The [...]
Welcome to Hell: The Corporate Obscenity of Canadian Tar Sands (0)
4/26/13 •
In 1987, Belinda Carlisle had a number one hit with the song, Heaven is a Place on Earth. Today, we are going to a place on Earth that bears a far closer resemblance to Hell. As the right-wing’s imperial warmongers seize on the Boston bombing to renew their calls for a capitalist (sorry, Christian) holy [...]
Easter Dummy: The Sacrilege of Russ Sloan (0)
3/31/13 •
Predictably, and with far more justification than at Thanksgiving, the Leesburg Daily Commercial exhorted readers of its Easter Sunday editorial to surrender their souls to Christ. Like many local rags in the Bible Belt, the appeal to the evangelical tradition was stronger than the quality of the writing. “Jesus,” we are told, “provides hope and [...]
Bull Marketing: The Selling of Bernanke’s Bubble (0)
3/24/13 •
In recent weeks, the Associated Press (AP) has portrayed the dizzying heights being attained by the stock market, in combination with a slight drop in the official rate of unemployment, as evidence of a gradual economic recovery. Better days, we are told, are almost here again. While right-wingers might perceive such reporting as a left-wing [...]
Laughter in the Distance: Rick Scott’s Alleged Obamacare Apostasy (0)
3/03/13 •
In an earlier post on Rick Scott’s apparently defining campaign against Obamacare (The Nullification Crisis of 2013), we engaged in some speculation about the Florida Governor’s motivations, without reaching any definitive conclusions. For pundits on the right, such as the omnipresent Cal Thomas, Scott’s recent decision to allow Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid to take place, [...]
Low-Information Pundit: Russ Sloan and Presidential Likeability (0)
2/28/13 •
On Sunday, February 24th, Russ Sloan squandered yet another opportunity to educate the public about the workings of the economy – the material one might reasonably expect to find in the Money section of a Sunday paper – in favor of an explicitly partisan rant against the President. Of course, long-time readers of the Leesburg [...]
Telling the Children What to Think: Corporate Media and Degraded Citizenry (0)
2/23/13 •
On Friday, February 22nd, the Leesburg Daily Commercial provided two perfect examples of the way in which it suppresses any tendency toward independent thinking among the citizenry. We refer not to the reliable red-baiting of Cal Thomas, which has long since degenerated into tragic comedy for the few of us who watch what Barack Obama [...]
Confirmed: The Immorality of the American Empire (0)
2/09/13 •
This week’s Senate confirmation hearings for President Obama’s nominee to be the next director of the CIA, John Brennan, finally shone some light on the administration’s relentless drone wars. Unfortunately, and quite predictably, that light was lacking in intensity and carefully focused (with surgical precision, one might say) through a red, white, and blue filter. [...]
Taking Aim at Tyranny (0)
1/16/13 •
As the bodies of the Newtown children begin to decompose in their graves, so the prospects for meaningful reform to America’s gun culture appear to recede. The NRA’s confidence that assault weapons will remain legal has been bolstered by several signs of fearful obedience from federal legislators who remain more moved by campaign contributions than [...]
Previous Harvest
- Preparing the Lambs for Slaughter: The Debt Knife Awaits
- It’s Mourning in America
- Three Wheels on His Wagon: Russ Sloan’s Free-Rider Problem
- Revolting: Cal Thomas’s Plutocratic Tax Fantasy
- Giving Thanks for Cruelty: An American Tradition
- Under a Covering Fire of Contempt: The Worst Guest Column in Daily Commercial History
- Endorsing Evil
- Trick or Treat: America’s Sneering Taunt to the World
- Celebrating the Suppression of Dissent
- The Narrowing of the Field: Barack Obama and the Death of Progressivism
- Predator Capitalism: Cruelty in the Pork Industry and the Human Hypocrisy that Allows It
- 21st Century Eunuch: The Courtier in the Kleptocrats’ Court
- Apathy, Hypocrisy, and Justice: The Grating Rhetoric of the Leesburg Daily Commercial
Featured Varieties
Citric Acid»
4/27/13 •
God, Guns, and Bullshit: From Freedom to Fetish in the Home of the Brave3/24/13 •
Bull Marketing: The Selling of Bernanke’s Bubble3/03/13 •
Laughter in the Distance: Rick Scott’s Alleged Obamacare Apostasy1/16/13 •
Taking Aim at Tyranny12/22/12 •
It’s Mourning in America
Commercial Interests»
2/23/13 •
Telling the Children What to Think: Corporate Media and Degraded Citizenry1/07/13 •
Preparing the Lambs for Slaughter: The Debt Knife Awaits11/20/12 •
Giving Thanks for Cruelty: An American Tradition11/06/12 •
Endorsing Evil9/19/12 •
Apathy, Hypocrisy, and Justice: The Grating Rhetoric of the Leesburg Daily Commercial
The Sloan Manifesto»
3/31/13 •
Easter Dummy: The Sacrilege of Russ Sloan2/28/13 •
Low-Information Pundit: Russ Sloan and Presidential Likeability12/18/12 •
Three Wheels on His Wagon: Russ Sloan’s Free-Rider Problem7/25/12 •
Crossing the Rubicon: The Leesburg Daily Commercial Declares Class War on Its Own Readers6/25/12 •
Corporate Profits, Government Regulations, and the Hoodwinking of America
