Brian McFadden takes on America’s D+ infrastructure

US economic progress in the 20th century was based on having first rate infrastructure. Our decline is a direct result of our failure to maintain and improve it.

Where is Eugene V. Debs when you need him?

In Kentucky, where evil clown Mitch McConnell is up for reelection, " … there is some concern that [probable candidate Ashley] Judd’s more liberal positions would cause problems for down ballot Democrats … making some some Democrats nervous … prominent local Democrats and national Democrats, including the Clintons, are working hard to find an alternative … "

The Democrats are irremediably the party of the Center (while it would be satisfying to see the backside of McConnell, a blue dog Democrat won't be much of an improvement).

The Right has a lock on the GOP.

The country needs a party of the Left.

"John Gabree was at The Tree House."

Really Facebook?

John Gabree doesn't even know what The Tree House is.

Fact vs Fiction

Whether or not its Satan has been made deliberately  remindful of Barack Obama, I can't understand why something called the History Channel is dramatizing ooga booga from the Judeo-Christian bible. I can understand why they might want to undertake a historical look at the book's long and troubled history. But won't a dramatization likely be taken by many of the viewership's slower members to be "history"?

Back story

"Mr. Katz has had previous troubles. A veterinarian by trade, he was once accused of illegally disposing of a dead German shepherd, and another time of allegedly attacking a Chihuahua he was treating. Both times, he said, he was exonerated." -- From an article in the Times Friday about New York Republican assemblyman Stephen M. Katz's arrest for marijuana possession during a traffic stop for speeding.

By the way, the assemblyman, who is a member of the chamber’s Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, voted last year against a bill that would have legalized medical pot.