“I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.” -Geraldo Rivera Geraldo Rivera didn’t mean what he said. No one with half a brain could intentionally make such a stupid remark while posing as a news commentator on the national media (except, perhaps, for Rush Limbaugh, […]
Archives for March 2012
Some Things Make Sense; Some Don’t
Maybe it’s just me, but some things don’t make a lot of sense. I mean, I can understand why the same Republicans who four years ago were saying that the president (then George W. Bush) had no power to control the price of gasoline are now blaming Obama for the high price of gas. […]
Why Democrats Who Crow May Be Counting Their Chickens Before They Hatch
Many Democrats have been relishing the extended run of “Saturday Night Live”-like performances that the Republicans have been providing via their extended presidential nominating process. If the cast of characters the party has paraded around the country for the last six months hasn’t been the actual actors on the venerable NBC comedy show, it […]
On the Need for Prophylaxis: Limbaugh Fouls the Airwaves
When Rush Limbaugh was just a local talk show host in Sacramento (on AM station KFBK from 1984-’88), he wasn’t all that sure about a lot of things. His politics were conservative, but they were unrefined enough that he regularly engaged with a U.C. Davis political science professor (Larry Berman) who would take him […]