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Occupy Oakland: From Flowers in Your Hair to the Dark Side


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

The Bay area has a long history of protest. At 1960s UC Berkeley, Vietnam war opponents started as idealistic, flowers in your hair protestors who morphed into building grabbers. Next door, the hard-scrabble neighborhoods of East Oakland are the perfect breeding ground for discontent. It’s the right place for the Occupy movement to set up tents. Plenty of people with grievances and lots of rich people to snub. But, Occupy Oakland has a dark side.

God Needs a Better PR Team


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

I’ve joked for years that God needs a better PR team on Earth. Some of the most log-headed charlatans, grifters, and just plain logically-challenged people claim to speak on His behalf. Pat Robertson, Ted Haggard, and ethically inept Newt Gingrich are just a few. But, AL state Sen. Shadrack McGill covets his own serving of ignobility.

BANG! You’re Very Poor


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

Much has been said about how multi-millionaire candidates relate to the middle class. Most of them advize Americans who are part of the shrinking middle to simply get new jobs, but they’re silent on how to pull that off in the recession they created. To them, grousing from Americans caught in the vice of diminishing means is just class warfare.

I Know How Copernicus Must Have Felt


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

I know how Copernicus must have felt. He’s the fellow who first posited that the Sun, and not Earth, was at the center of the universe. For his trouble he was branded a heretic and ostrasized by the Catholic church. It turns out Nicolaus was right and the Pope, not so much. It’s a familiar story. It has legs. It’s still happening at the hands of the far right ignorati.

When Candidates Don’t Get Video and Audio Tape


Posted by Omnipotent Poobah

Five years after noted grifter and late Alaska Senator Ted Stevens showed his impeccable technology credentials by likening the Internet to a “series of tubes”, our erstwhile Presidential nominees struggle with the most basic pre-21st Century gadgets. Gadgets like cameras and audio tape. This is a disturbing trend for a gaggle of walking egos intent on becoming the most audio and video-taped person on the planet.