Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it any more. In a Network-style on-air tirade, the MSNBC commentator let fly with the honest truth about why our political system is so thoroughly fucked. He is furious - and rightfully so - that both congress and the president refuse to make necessary and meaningful changes to the tax and regulatory systems that have allowed banks and big businesses to ruin our economy. He rails about how congressmen on both sides of the isle are bought and paid for and will never turn on the abusive corporate interests that pay them so well, as well as a weak president who is more concerned with compromise than with doing the right thing.
And you know what? Everything he says is absolutely true.
Harvey Pekar, underground comic writer and long-time collaborator with Robert Crumb (one of my favorite comic artists) has died. RIP, angry man. (via Boingboing)
The New York Times recently did an interview with octogenarian author Gore Vidal. Apparently Mr. Vidal hates everything and everyone on god’s green earth, and that makes for a hilarious interview. Here’s an excerpt:
Are you saying your novels have been critically neglected? I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. I’ve never had much attention paid by critics — nor has anybody else in the United States of America, as Mr. Obama likes to call it.
And what about Mr. McCain? Disaster. Who started this rumor that he was a war hero? Where does that come from, aside from himself? About his suffering in the prison war camp?
Everyone knows he was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. That’s what he tells us.
Priceless. Click through for more cantankerous curmudgeoning. (via Digg)
