Author Archives: Steven Weber

CSA 2.0

Posted on 03/27/2012 at 10:28 pm by Steven Weber

It would be hard to look at the swath the GOP is trying to cut through the decades of culturally identifiable social legislation without using descriptions evoking a particular past. In fact, the party’s overall personality is starting to take … Continue reading →

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Impossible Truths

Posted on 04/12/2011 at 12:36 pm by Steven Weber

by While it’s been a struggle hiding my disappointment in regards to our duly elected president not effectively vanquishing the insane and invasive Right Wing to the dank fringes from whence it slithered, and disappointed that, for all intents and … Continue reading →

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Baby Goes “Waahhh!!!”

Posted on 04/08/2011 at 12:58 pm by Steven Weber

By It makes perfect sense that the party of “No!”, the party that embraces fairy tale creation myths, the party that bullies, provokes and lies, the party that has no idea that they themselves will eventually get old, the party … Continue reading →

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Name Calling

Posted on 03/30/2011 at 10:10 pm by Steven Weber

By What do you call an organization which regularly resorts to lies, exaggerations, obfuscations, intimidation, distraction and bullying to disseminate and implement its agenda? You call it the Republican Party, of course. The obviousness with which Republicans (and the greater … Continue reading →

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Dispassionate Conservatism

Posted on 01/16/2011 at 7:22 pm by Steven Weber

by The most revealing glimpse last week’s Arizona nightmare afforded was not another account of the American character which continues to fetishize the very guns destroying it, but a chance to view the elemental composition of the Right WIng in … Continue reading →

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Listen to the Mocking Bird

Posted on 01/09/2011 at 7:23 pm by Steven Weber

by In my frequently and mostly profane Twitterings, I occasionally lapse into a fevered Leftist rant about whatever happens to be crawling beneath my skin and depositing its eggs there. I say occasionally because the majority of what I tweet … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Edwards: A Lesson

Posted on 12/13/2010 at 9:40 am by Steven Weber

by The passing of Elizabeth Edwards is tragic and, in the context of recent events involving the excruciatingly public scandal involving her ex-husband, meaningful. But it is not monumental. It is the way of things. In 1990, my sister Abbe … Continue reading →

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Wingnut Thought for the Day

Posted on 09/08/2010 at 10:40 am by Steven Weber

by “If every radical Christian burned a Koran, maybe it would make us less dependent on foreign oil.” Share

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Burned

Posted on 08/25/2010 at 2:34 am by Steven Weber

by Okay, here’s a heavy-handed analogy, followed by a brief quiz: So, some guys burn a house down. Then they walk away. Another guy comes along, sees the charred remains and wants to rebuild. He tries to gather materials but … Continue reading →

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Random Thoughts (for those who can’t be f*cked to sign in to Twitter®) #4

Posted on 06/07/2010 at 6:15 pm by Steven Weber

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Random Thoughts (for those who can’t be f*cked to sign in to Twitter) # 3

Posted on 06/06/2010 at 8:01 pm by Steven Weber

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Emasculation Nation

Posted on 06/03/2010 at 7:15 pm by Steven Weber

by BP has America by the balls. After years of video games and twenty-four-hour-a-day infotainment memes shortening attention spans to the same length of the switchback cuts of an MTV video (remember those? Barely?), Americans’ eyes never light for too … Continue reading →

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Random Thoughts (for those who can’t be f*cked to sign onto Twitter®) #2

Posted on 05/31/2010 at 1:30 pm by Steven Weber

By Plan D: BP planning to plug hole in the gulf with copies of Atlas Shrugged. Share

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9/11 O/IL

Posted on 05/27/2010 at 12:25 pm by Steven Weber

by What do all of these events have in common: An icon of American financial supremacy brought down in a dazzling daylight display of blowback. A global economy brought to its knees by the results of years of unethical and … Continue reading →

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Blood Will Out

Posted on 05/26/2010 at 12:35 pm by Steven Weber

By I don’t blame my president. He is what he was forced to be. Obama was saddled with more toxic baggage than any of his predecessors and from the beginning his lily white haters laughed at the black kid with … Continue reading →

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