By Alberto Pupo

Seems like America loves their slime balls! In a very hush hush ceremony and over the protestations of many citizens in the state of Missouri, Rush the Bigot Limbaugh is inducted in to the Hall of Fame of “famous Missourians”. A man who has not advanced a single decent cause in the world, a man whose sole purpose is to deride and offend most recently offending a private citizen slandering her to no end simply because she wanted to engage in responsible family planning. The whole Limbaugh situation is upsetting not just simply because of the man who got inducted, but because this is part of a larger pattern of the American mindset. A mindset which intermingles fame and notoriety into one glitzy glittery package of hate. Americans for the most part while they love to Continue reading →

By Michelle Rene Cronk

Beans and Rice for Breakfast

Beans and Rice at Night

Beans and Rice at Lunchtime

Beans and Rice Delight!

Hannity sez that he has friends

Who subsist on Beans and Rice Continue reading →

By: Alberto Pupo

There is a new face in Washington, a new star trying to give some life to a lifeless campaign. Enter Marco Rubio the new Tea Party er.. I mean Republican Senator? While he claims he has no interest nor design in a vice presidential position he is certainly making a Sarah Palinesque stab at the media limelight. Marco Rubio is currently the darling of the corporate media, who at this point is simply bored with Mitt Romney and his ever waning charisma. Marco Rubio has recently been touted as being a foreign policy visionary with new ideas (which oddly reek of neoliberalism) and a new course for the future everyone loves Marco, and nobody is feeling giddier than the snake in the grass who is waiting to bask in the sun.

Marco Rubio is the new flavor of the month. A former Tea Partier… (or at least he played the part to get elected) Now GOP spokesperson for the one percent, is stumping viciously for Romney in order to further his own career. When it comes to domestic policy Rubio Continue reading →

By Michelle Rene Cronk

“Corporations are people, my friend!” declared Mitt Romney, some months ago.  He was likely reaffirming  the 2009 Supreme Court “Citizen’s United” Decision which granted Corporations, Unions, and Super Pacs, the same political “speech” (expenditure) rights as individual, natural persons.  Of course, most of us real people do not have millions of dollars to spend, so our speech is drowned out.
Romney’s assertion that artificial, and soul-less entities with special rights not afforded to individual and real humans, and whose single purpose is *profits above all,* are somehow PEOPLE, got me thinking.
It got me thinking how in these days of “drill baby drill,” climate science deniers, and the increasingly overt disregard for any Continue reading →

By Alberto Pupo

Growing up in the Nineties life was particularly good to those who came before us. Parents were constantly reassuring us that the rules to life were simple. Get a degree in something you love and then once schooling is done prepare for the fun and prosperity. This was the simple path to at the very least an assured place in the Middle Class. The formula seemed to be working Generation X was loving life getting educated coming out with prospects of home ownership, traveling the world and living a fulfilling life. It all seemed so easy just trust our parents, and relatives and go with it, follow that “Bridge to the 21 Century!”. Everywhere in all types of Media the talk was surplus and how there is so much of the pie to go around. However then suddenly the bridge burned down, the pie once handed to us was but a few crumbs in aluminum foil and all we got was a lousy “war on terror”.The things went from bad to worse but we continued to insulate ourselves in the ivory towers of academia. My generation continued to excel we got Continue reading →

By Alberto Pupo

He dreaded tax deadline has arrived. A word that leaves thousands perhaps millions of Americans quaking in fear. Will the tax man be knocking at the door? Will there be an audit that will cut to the heart of the matter. There is nothing more American than to be raised in a culture of hatred for taxation. The Right Wing takes advantage of this social and cultural phenomena. They like to tell us stories of the evil IRS coming to take away all of our hard earned money. The sad reality is the “Tax Man” is actually on the side of the filthy rich. Yes there might be the occasional audit to justify their power. But the sad truth is more often than not the IRS loves the filthy rich, in particular the American Corporation.

Taxes are the fear of most Americans. Paying taxes is said to be a s certain as death. Taxes are ostensibly a way to bring revenue to the government to use for public goods Continue reading →