He’s a crossfire pinball wizard no reason to get excited You ain’t going nowhere Until we kiss the sky He’s been away While the joker plays A hurricane phony Just got back today A bustle in your muffin better to burn out than it is to rust After the Beatlemania Has bitten the dust I see […]
BURNING IN HEAVEN (think Spinal Tap): Jack and Jill went up the hill and now they burn in heaven Jack climbed Jill but she was on the pill so now they burn in heaven Dick and Jane were doing the same We’re all burning in Heaven See Spot Run from the end of a gun […]
De-funding public education is the quickest and easiest way to control the population. The idea is simple: kill critical thinking before it starts. An under-educated populace can be manipulated quite easily, and unless people are aware of their history they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is where we find ourselves […]
What is happening in Gaza is not new. Misguided religious beliefs and simmering, deeply entrenched racism each play a role in creating the conditions for genocide. In many cases, violence is perpetrated by one ethnic group upon another based solely on religious affiliation. In Cambodia, organized religion was considered a threat to civil order, and […]
When renowned author and environmental activist Vandana Shiva writes about ‘Mad Cows and Sacred Cows’ she makes a compelling case against the trade policies of the global cattle industry. That cows are sacred in Indian culture almost goes without saying, but few consider the practical, economic and environmental uses of cattle – especially on poor […]
According to J. Samuel Walker in Prompt & Utter Destruction, the five fundamental considerations which led to the use of the atomic bomb grew out of circumstances that existed in the summer of 1945, when an especially brutal island-by-island military offensive was still being waged in the Pacific. The battle of Okinawa had sacrificed tens […]
Hallelujah, one of the most evil men in the world has died. Rejoice! The man who once declared the constitution “dead, dead, dead” is now as dead as that worthless piece of paper. Antonin Scalia was full of hate. He despised anyone who wasn’t a corporation and he used his position to make life miserable […]
Somehow the pundits on social media hailed Beyoncé’s performance as a profound political statement. Seriously? I hate to break this to America, but Beyoncé Knowles awful half-time show at Stupor Bowl 2016 was embarrassing to watch. There’s no other way to put it. Beyoncé’s musical statement was merely a cynical way to promote herself and her […]
The Stupor Bowl is the American version of the Nazi party rallies from the 1930s. The first twenty minutes of the Stupor Bowl telecast this year was essentially a free commercial for the Pentagon; promoting war and militarism and a glorification of violence. We got to see lots of clean-cut American soldiers in uniforms smiling […]
Last week PoliTech, a non-partisan student political group at Texas Tech in Lubbock released a video, Politically Challenged. In the edited video host Courtney Plunk asks Tech students basic questions such as, “who is the vice president of the United States?” “From which country did America gain its independence?” and “Who won the Civil War?” […]
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