Silliness on a Friday Night: Meet Computer H14!

In 1963, Jim Henson made this film about “Computer H14″ for an AT&T seminar on the tension between humans and machines.

The character was Henson’s response to a brief by Ted Mills (a principal at InPro, which organised the seminar) who laid out the basic idea that Computer H14 “is sure that All Men Basically [...]

Ron Paul: Racist to the Core

Ron Paul’s attempts to deny his involvement in the creation of racist newsletters that bear his name are becoming increasingly hard to reconcile with reality.

But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored its operations, signing off on [...]

“I carried a box”

The following was written by Tanya Lohr, a Washington County resident who not only collected thousands of signatures to help trigger a recall of Republican Gov. Scott Walker, but she also got to carry a box full of those signatures when they were filed with the Government Accountability Board. I carried a box.

It [...]

Scott Walker should fire Brett Davis and Cullen Werwie

Yesterday news broke that charges have been filed in Milwaukee County against Darlene Wink and Kelly Rindfleish after both women were found to have engaged in significant political and campaign-related activity on County time.

In the case of Rindfleisch, it has been revealed that during the course of her duties as Deputy Chief of Staff [...]

Stark Contrast of Leadership: Obama v. Walker

While Barack Obama was giving his State of the Union speech this week, he calmly hid the knowledge that he had ordered a successful raid by Seal Team Six to rescue hostages in Somalia.  Mr. Obama never batted an eye.  From the Washington Post:

Publicly, Obama did not tip his hand during his [...]

Jan Brewer – Don’t Believe The Hype!

Recently Arizona Governor Jan Brewer met President Obama on the runway of an airport and they exchanged words. Well it does not take much to make one a right wing hero(if even for a day) and this propelled her to stardom on the right:

The problem here is Ms. Brewer is starting to believe [...]