Politics

So this dopey mosque issue near the site of the World Trade Center atrocity has the whole friggin’ country up in arms now, even people who never stepped foot in New York City, long-distance carpetbaggers claiming “hallowed ground” [...]

So, now  THE BATSHIT CRAZY LEADERS OF DANGEROUS UNSTABLE NATIONS CLUB officially welcomes its newest member, President (for life?) of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. Mr. Chavez, a classic South American military strong man long painted by the American media to be [...]

For decades now, the people who own and run this country have been doing terrible things to 98% of their fellow Americans. That would be those of us making less than $250,000 per year, a damned comfortable living, no matter what you hear to the contrary. [...]

At an International AIDS Conference in Vienna the other day, the participants stumbled upon a stunningly obvious truth. They said that one of the biggest contributors to the spread of the HIV virus is the fact that recreational drugs are illegal. Nominally, [...]

So, we need to coddle and protect the Goldman Sachs of this world, and pass no laws intended to cramp their style, according to New York City Mayor and Wall Street bazillionaire Michael “Peewee” Bloomberg. Little Mikey’s contention seems to [...]

Okay, we’ve had it. It’s America in 2010 and the ridiculous people just won’t go away. We’re surrounded by Christian Fascists who would have you love Jesus or die, freshly minted conservatives who don’t know their ass from a hole [...]

What? Russian spies in America! Has the retro craze even affected those of us who wax nostalgic about the Cold War, of all things? What, they miss Nuclear Bomb Drills? They wish the Berlin Wall was still there and that it was Russian troops shooting up [...]

So now our diminutive multibillionaire Mayor here in Skyscraper Park, Little Mikey Bloomberg, has had another brainstorm designed to make life a little more difficult for non-wealthy New Yorkers. Seem he thinks our parks are too crowded. Okay, so what’s [...]

It’s always Silly Season in American politics, even at a time like this when we have a calm man at the top of the food chain. President Obama is the most even-tempered, lucid and reasonable person to occupy the White House since Dwight D. Eisenhower. A [...]

Lost in the noise and clamor of our politically polarized nation is the notion of love, that most basic human concept and the main ingredient of what we like to call our humanity. Love for others was one of the prime factors in the creation of this place [...]