Recent Comments

1. about 2 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Opinions can never be wrong. They are inherently objective, and if I think that grass is red, that is my opinion. Facts can be proven to be incorrect, but if I can look at grass and call it red, it’s red as far as I’m concerned. Your opinions are as reasonable as an opinion that grass is red.

2. about 4 hours ago on Candorville

   Couldn’t remember to do it?

3. about 5 hours ago on Clay Jones

   Obviously, if she’s still spouting this crap, nobody is shooting Republicans, because she would be way near the top of anyone’s hit list.

4. about 7 hours ago on Jack Ohman

   The capitalist system produces a permanent underclass while assuring them that they are in a country that gives everyone equal opportunity. The media lets us know on a regular basis that there are people who were born in poverty but overcame the odds and are rich. That requires either talent, superior intelligence, or luck, frequently a combination of the three. And, the average person doesn’t have that advantage, or the advantage of being born on third base. So, the people who are still giving it their all and keep striking out have the general idea that the game is rigged against them, and no clear idea as to exactly why or how that happened. They get mad about it, don’t know who to blame, and Trump told them that it wasn’t their fault (probably the only true thing he ever said) and he would fix it ( probably the biggest lie).

5. about 7 hours ago on Candorville

   I have that too, usually when I have been working and am physically tired. It isn’t more complex words I can’t find, those are still easy for me. But, I can sometimes not remember what to call such things as a table when I want to use them in a sentence. And, “that thingy with the legs that you put the plates on” gets me some odd looks.

6. about 7 hours ago on Mike Luckovich

   The Republicans have never been the party of conservative values. That’s just the hype they use to keep their base in line. For at least the past two generations, Republicans have depended on the Religious Right types, who make up a huge part of their base, to support them, and they have been very dependable, despite the fact that very few of them have enough money that they were not working against their own best interests. For them, it didn’t have anything to do with economics or social welfare, because they were brainwashed into believing that the Republicans believed in the Family Values agenda- anti-gay, anti-abortion, etc After at least 40 years, the Religious Right finally figured out that the Establishment Republicans were playing them for fools, so they voted against Establishment Republicans, and for an “outsider”, who probably reminded them of their favorite televangelist. They are continuing to prove they are fools by supporting that outsider, who has the Family Values credentials of an extremely active tomcat. It is amazing to see how many of these people who are, in their own minds at least, a moral shining light actually are able to overlook the fact that they are avidly supporting a person who has no morals at all.

7. about 8 hours ago on Ted Rall

   Possibly because there aren’t any Republican cities?

8. about 8 hours ago on Clay Jones

   He annoys me because he rarely states an actual fact that can be shown to be inaccurate. He has a lot of opinions, but opinions can’t be shown to be wrong because they are a figment of his imagination.

9. about 8 hours ago on Clay Jones

   I considered trying sharpie magic, but it didn’t work when Trump did it either. I guess moving a hurricane with your mind is more difficult than just declassified documents.

10. about 8 hours ago on Clay Jones

    The situation in rural America has been deliberately designed by 1%ers to produce MAGAts. They own the news outlets that broadcast the conservative propaganda, and use them specifically for that purpose. In some states, you can’t get much else, and the talk radio is even more insane than Faux news. The main stream media has spent that same amount of time trying to be fair- presenting information they know to be questionable at best on equal footing with the truth, and the propaganda outlets still teach their listeners to distrust them—“Fake News”. A lot of the people who are in the Faux bubble would really have to put out some serious effort to get some contact with reality, while they are constantly bombarded with conservative propaganda, including out and out lies. And, the people they have coffee with, go to church (or the bar) with etc are dealing with the same situation. That means that real people that you know and trust are backing up what you are getting from the propaganda machine.Now, consider the possibility that the world you live in is not only being exposed as fake by the real news agencies, but Faux news has now decided they can’t keep up the hoax and will have to get real on a somewhat regular basis. You are faced with the situation of having lived in a farce your entire life. Can you imagine how frightening that would be? Especially to a person who is retirement age and the world they have lived in their entire life isn’t real? Yes, it is somewhat amusing if you are a really nasty person, but if you aren’t take some pity on them and try to help them. They didn’t create the problem, the 1%ers did, and our hating each other is just what the rich need to keep us from noticing that our hatred should be for those selling the lies, not for those who believe them.