Today’s diatribe takes a little while to unfurl. So take a deep breath before reading any further. DO NOT READ THIS WHILE DRIVING. The History of the United States began with Dutch merchants creating profit-making colonies, Englishmen fleeing oppression for their religious beliefs, and Frenchmen, curious as to why anyone would deliberately live in a [...]
Archive | January, 2012
GOP Mass Debates Out-Do Themselves
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, the Republican effort to undermine the elective process bent the envelope of American credulity to new standards of bloated surreality by conducting not one but TWO public mass debates within twelve hours of each other. “You know you’ve been to Looneyville and back when people think Rick [...]
Alone in Armenia
I’m working in WordPress 2.3.1. Whenever I open my administration page for this website, I am greeted with “WordPress 3.3.1 is available! Please update now.” As you can see, there are two links here. Presumably, they are here to help me Do The Big Update. Some weeks have passed since I last had to take this nightmarish [...]