AltWeeklies Wire
7.9% Fewer Drone Strikesnew
Automatic budget cuts known as the Sequester mean that the government will no longer be able to afford, for example, as many killer drone attacks.
Tags: drone attacks
Mohammed Loses a Buddy, gets PTSDnew
According to a new Pentagon study, drone operators suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome at the same rate as real soldiers who fight in, you know, combat.
The Self-Censoring of America
The cost of integrity and the payoff for selling out have risen. So fewer Americans are taking chances.
How Reddit is Making Us Stoopid
Thanks to the social-cultural-economic orientation of too many Redditors, it's the Malicious Advice Mallard's world. We only live in it.
Awaiting a Slut Moment
We need a Slut Moment—a public self-outing by a popular celebrity. Someone who stands up and tells the world: I am a slut. I enjoy sex with more than one partner.
Tags: Petraeus
Customer Service Is A Right
It may not be as important as habeas corpus, but good access to customer service reps is a right—especially when a company is extracting billions from the economy, i.e. us.
Three Douchebags Who Shook the Earth
Will Douchenet change the world? Don't bet against it.
An Open Letter To Oprah Winfreynew
Offering advice on Oprah's possible decision to trade television for organic farming on Maui.
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Oprah in Hawaii
The Perils of OWS' Cut-and-Paste Revolution, Part I
The Occupy movement has grown nicely. But, just as Mao found it necessary to adapt industrial-proletarian-based Marxism to China's agrarian economy with "Marxism with Chinese characteristics," activists are about to face the negative consequences of trying to replicate Tahrir Square in the United States. The U.S. isn't Egypt. It isn't even European. Americans need Tahrir Square with American characteristics.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
10-24-2011 |
Commentary
It's Mourning in America: Tacky and Weird
As witnessed again in the aftermath of the Tucson massacre, Americans don't mourn right. We turn tragedy into kitsch.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
01-18-2011 |
Commentary
The Italians Were Right to 'Censor' Google
This column appears in print newspapers. If I were to write that you were (for example) a drug-addicted child pornographer, my editors would ask me if it was true and demand that I source my allegation. On the other hand, there are no gatekeepers online.
Tags: Google, censorship
Animated Cartoon: In Search of the Democratsnew
Why Dems don't exist.
Cartoon: Next, In-Flight Lobotomiesnew
True story: The TSA has banned pilots from telling you about the sights off your left wing.
