Double Birds

The question was this: A seemingly healthy 30 year-old man decides to not buy health insurance because it is too expensive.  He ends up in a coma.  Should we let him die? Wolf Blitzer loaded the question as a man would load bullets into a gun.  It wasn't meant to get an honest response.  It was meant to make a tv spectacle, and to make Ron Paul look bad.  Just as the debate was not meant to be an honest debate, but a show, a spectacle to befuddle the masses into a stupor between election cycles. The scenario seems like a case of rampant, inhumane capitalism versus merciful government intervention.  Our debates are usually constructed in similar anti-capitalist  false dilemmas , because establishment Republicans and Democrats both hate capitalism, and want to give more power to the state. Start at 2:30. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , The Daily Show on Facebook The Republican audie...

There's a lot of talk about Ron Paul being racist (he's not).  The usually reasonable Matt Taibbi even throws in  with the rest of the name-callers on this one.  Well, I'm going to one-up all of you. I'd vote for Ron Paul even if he was racist. Maybe you're racist against old white Republicans. That's right.  If Ron Paul thought that blacks evolved from Mexicans, and Mexicans evolved from sriracha , I'd vote him into public office. Why? For the same reason gays should vote for Ron Paul. Ron Paul thinks marriage should be between a man and a woman.  But he also thinks that individuals should be free to make that decision for themselves. As president, he wouldn't try to inflict his moral views on others.   He would take government out of marriage, and allow marriage to be free (to accomplish this within the restrictions of the Constitution, he would have to allow each state to decide how it would comply with this freedom). So if Ron Paul was the most back...

Obama's re-election hopes aren't looking solid.  It's possible that the next president will be a Republican.  If so, Rupert Murdoch will personally select who he wants it to be. This Saturday Ron Paul came within 152 votes of winning the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa.  Michelle Bachmann officially won, and has her face plastered everywhere alongside Romney and Perry, who didn't even participate in the straw poll.  Ron Paul got shafted . There is no Ron Paul.  Repeat: There is no Ron Paul. To put this in perspective, at the '07 Ames , Romney had over 4,500 votes, and the next closest came Huckabee, at 2,500.  This year Paul got 4,600 votes, more than Romney, who won, got last time. Ron Paul nearly won, but if you watched the news reports, you wouldn't even know he was there. Sarah Palin said of the poll : "They’ll cast that vote and if you can bus in enough people and can get enough people enthused enough about your candidacy, they will be there to vote for y...

The Aztecs tore the hearts out of human victims to appease the sun god . The victims were treated with the utmost respect before their deaths, like royalty. Their sacrifice was honored by the populace, who believed the priests and rulers who said that murdering their loved ones kept society free from destruction. The murder of innocents did not prop up the sun. Rather, it propped up the ruling regime, and kept the populace in a reverent gratitude for the courage of the leaders in sacrificing the people's children. We are told the same pack of lies. Our sons are sent to die in wars against a threat as real as the sun god. We are supposed to thank our leaders for sacrificing our children to protect us from imaginary destruction. In the pagan ritual of war, our leaders claim a mighty priesthood indeed. The ability to consecrate human sacrifice unto the most-high God, a sacrifice that preserves our liberty and safety. The fires of Moloch devour our children still. Ironically, w...

CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader announced on Sunday. In a late-night appearance in the East Room of the Imperial Palace, Lord Vader declared that “justice has been done” as he disclosed that agents of the Imperial Army and stormtroopers of the 501st Legion had finally cornered Kenobi, one of the leaders of the Jedi rebellion, who had eluded the Empire for nearly two decades. Imperial officials said Kenobi resisted and was cut down by Lord Vader’s own lightsaber. He was later dumped out of an airlock. The news touched off an extraordinary outpouring of emotion as crowds gathered in the Senate District and outside the Imperial Palace, waving imperial flags, cheering, shouting, laughing and chanting, “Hail to the Emperor! Hail Lord Vader!” In the alien protection zone, crowds sang “The Ten Thousand Year E...