National Offense n: a foreign policy supported by used car salesmen, talk show hosts, and professional politicians that entails sticking the national dick in as many other peoples’ pudding as possible, spreading your assets so thin until even your very best offense is no defense at all. “All during recess, big bad Billy was throwing […]

Hot damn do I ever applaud the hell out of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. It’s one of an armful of fairly obviously soul destroying governmental policies the arguments for which fall frighteningly fucking flat. The obvious argument…supporters hate gay people. There is a more credible argument that openly serving homosexuals might spook […]

Revenge Politics n: a practice by which one political faction’s capricious or otherwise questionable policies and actions are fueled by or rationalized by an opposing faction’s previous transgressions of the same order, alternatingly favoring one class or segment of the population above the other, creating a vicious, compounding cycle of unprincipled government to the detriment […]

Before we are once more drawn into the warm wet embrace of faith in the economy, I wanted to make note of my recently evolved commonsense skepticism of economic systems. At some point in my life, I unfortunately lost my endless curiosity in subjects that lay just outside the confines of my current knowledge. One […]