Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Advice for Sarah Palin

Tsk, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah. . .

If you're going to create a fake Facebook profile to basically troll yourself, don't use bits of your real name as the fake name like some sly cartoon villain!

http://www.meta-activism.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/lousarah.jpg

See, it's not that hard to find out that your middle name is Louise, and when the only thing the fake persona seems to care about is how awesome Sarah and Bristol Palin are, well, it's not that hard to put two and two together. Oh, sorry, I mean for most of us putting two and two together is easy, you know what, it's like a math thing, it's not important. No, MATH, not METH. You know what, just forget it.

It might be less suspicious if you named your alter ego "Jane Smith" or something. Okay, probably Jane Smith is already taken, but there are lots of names that are probably still available. Here are a few suggestions:

Helen A. Handbasket

Marge Inall

Alexandre Dumass

Phyllis Steen

Erin Competent

Amelia Airhead

Lacey Unmentionables

Julia Childish

Eileen Wright

Shirley U. Geste

Opal Eeze

Barbara Aryan

Linda Masapost
Alma Exesliveintexas

Mae Niac

Tara Part

Misty Meaner

Sandra McQueen

Narcissa Sism

Quittie McDumbfuck

How to cheer up Moumar Qadaffi

Flag this as inappropriate.

They're not booing, they're chanting Mooo-umar, Mooo-umar!

http://www.sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/muammar-qaddafi-hands-raised.jpg

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Appropriate Songs for Today

Something Wonderful Is Happening.

http://obamadiary.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/wisconsin_protests_1_109214621.jpg?w=750&h=499

And it's happening in Wisconsin, the home of "Fightin' Bob" LaFollette!

But it's not only Wisconsin.

It's already spread to Ohio!

And Walks for Choice are being planned in cities all over America.

(link)

I think we may be seeing the resurrection of American Progressives.

For thirty-plus years, progressives and working folk in general have been getting slapped in the face and punched in the gut by the well-funded organized armies of the right. Unions have been busted, wages have stagnated, the media has been corrupted to the point that it now reflects a full range of viewpoints, from garden-variety conservative to hard-right theocracy. Companies have been allowed to send low-skilled jobs to China, high-skilled jobs to India, the profits to the Caymans and the tax burden onto the rest of us, all while enjoying tax break after tax break to the point that many corporations pay no taxes at all.

Every time we think we may be getting somewhere we get disappointed by someone like Bill "NAFTA" Clinton or Barack "Card check, what card check?" Obama. But it seems like maybe the ascendancy of the Tea Baggers may have been the final straw.

http://www.themaneater.com/media/2009/0312/photos/republicans043.jpg

(someone like this being taken seriously could make anyone snap!)

And by the way, Fuck you, Jon Stewart for referring to the Wisconsin protests as the "Bizarro Teaparty." Do you really not see the difference? You may not agree with the protesters in Madison, but what they are protesting against is something real. The Tea Baggers were up in arms about death panels and Marxist/Nazi tyranny and all manner of paranoid bullshit. They were spectacularly mis-informed and organized by big money groups like "Freedom Works" and promoted relentlessly by a major cable "news" network. It's not the same thing!