Feature Article #1

The injustice continues under Obama

Yesterday, the military board hearing the case of Lt. Dan Choi, who told the truth about his sexual orientation on the Rachel Maddow show, moved to toss him from the military under the Don't Ask/Don't Tell policy (even though they consider him…

Deb Della Piana | July 1st, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #2

Satirists on Strike!

Peer closely enough into your computer screens, dear readers, and you’ll see your humble scribe marching around his television wearing a sandwich board that says “UNFAIR TO SATIRISTS” in big bold letters.

Last week was the last straw. It started with missing…

Snark Twain | June 30th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #3

Nine Word Obituary

Michael Jackson, who never wanted to grow old, didn't.

Snark Twain | June 26th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #4

Bringing new meaning to the word

Hypocrisy (hy.poc.ri.sy): The practice of claiming to have standards or beliefs that are contrary to one's real character or actual behavior.

I'd say the above just about defines the present-day GOP, and it is because of this that I cannot even take…

Deb Della Piana | June 23rd, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #5

The Pragdealist Alternative: A Declaration of Independence

A new wind is blowing through America, change is in the air and I’m not talking about Barack Obama. This change is deeper than that, more fundamental. Our president is a product of that change, not its cause. Americans are marginalizing the margins.

The…

Snark Twain | June 18th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #6

Oops, we did it again

I'm thinking that they can't help themselves. The GOP disintegration has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the latest self-immolating buffoon is Representative Mark Kirk, junior congressman from Illinois. Congressman Kirk's less-than-excellent adventure took him to none other than China. You…

Deb Della Piana | June 13th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #7

We are all libertarians—for us

I never thought I’d live to see the day, but Dick Cheney offered his nation a powerful lesson in citizenship this week. When, at one of his daily Obama bashings, he was asked where he stood on the gay marriage debate,…

Snark Twain | June 5th, 2009 | Continued

Feature Article #8

Murder in the Name of God

Well, it didn't take long for the anti-abortion zealots to find justification in "the scriptures" for the murder of Doctor George Tiller, an abortion provider and one of the nation's few doctors providing late-term abortions. Dave Leach, an anti-abortion activist who…

Deb Della Piana | June 2nd, 2009 | Continued

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My name is Deb Della Piana. I'm a corporate ex-patriot who towed the company line for nearly twenty-five years before getting shafted. Now I'm contributing to the world's big giant rant as a liberal political blogger and part-time comedian. When…