Free Trade and Standards

To believe that we can maintain our standard of living, environmental protections, and decent labor standards—while laying open our borders to unrestricted imports from nations where no such standards exist—is delusional.

The inevitable result of unregulated free trade is the emergence of an international plutocracy, the destruction of middle classes where they exist, crashing of income levels in the developed world, and widespread environmental degradation. 

These are not accidental byproducts of the emerging free-trade regime – they are its raison d'être. 

Hawaii 'Birther' Law

Hawaii just enacted a law that allows state workers to ignore those troglodytes who keep bugging them to produce Obama’s birth certificate - again. One out of five Americans doesn’t see this as a settled issue. One out of five! 

I know what you’re thinking … ‘What are they hiding?’ {;-)

Arizona

Welcome to Arizona – home of the unregulated, half-inebriated, heavily armed, self-deputizing, all-volunteer barfly border patrol; Local post HQ at Shorty’s Tap Room. 
‘Heads up!  Suspicious Hispanic spotted at the day-labor stop at 4th and Main.  Suck ‘em up, Boys!  Let’s ride!’

Cult Indoctrination

One of the key first steps in cult indoctrination is the severing of ties to outside influences – family, friends, newspapers, television, etc. The novice is taught to distrust all non-members, and is force-fed an alternate reality, which is dissonant with the outside World. 
Ultimately, members become dependent on the cult leader, and come to believe that the only truth is that spoken by Rush himself.

Louisiana Oil Spil

There are a lot of legitimate responses to the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; Anger, outrage, frustration, resolve … curiosity, guilt, shame. The one response only a fool can have though – is surprise.

Political Correctness

Much of what many people deride as ‘political correctness’ is really nothing more than good manners—the same type of courtesy we in the mainstream accept as a matter of course—applied toward a person or group they don’t think of as worthy of such consideration. 

Fear that one might be accused of political correctness is a tool to silence those who might otherwise speak out against targeted rudeness.  

Bizarro World - Health Care for the Unemployed and Sick

In Bizarro World, losing one's job means that one not only has less money coming in, but actually has to pay MORE for medical care. 

And in Bizarro World, if you're sick enough, you can't get medical coverage at all. 

Thank goodness we live in a place where things make more sense.