If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.