Today I saw a twitter post by Julliette Lewis, who asked her fans to send “good vibes” to someone in her band, diagnosed with the H1N1 virus. After soliciting mass prayer as a cure, she added that she considered the swine flu a big pharmaceutical conspiracy, and instructed her followers to “fight the system”. Wow. Is there any difference between Creationism and the swelling movement of scientific skeptics? They both ignore fact in favor of a hunch. Sure, we are an over... Read Full Story

I panicked. Casually, I had pulled up the surf report app on my iphone and was now doing a double, bug-eyed take: 7-9 foot waves, with excellent conditions. The morning was already halfway over, but I had a show out of town the next day, and work for two days after that. It texted my car pool beach buddy, no response. It had been flat all week, so I decided not to wait. I threw my stuff into my ‘91 Explorer and raced the 30 miles from Eagle Rock to the Manhattan Beach pier. I found bea... Read Full Story

Occupying Afghanistan with an army to bring peace is like booking the Village People at the Westboro Baptist Church: NOT a result of due dilligence. Yet somehow, like an alcoholic, we collectively manage to convince ourselves it’s totally cool to have one more troop addition, before we quit. The call for more is not just on Fox news, it’s everywhere: Last night Bill Maher’s panel consisted of reasonable, well informed liberals. Alec Baldwin, Chris Matthews and some politicia... Read Full Story

Not sure what they were thinking in Norway, but being handed a Nobel Peace Prize before you get the chance to actually do something must be weird. Right now Obama must feel like Beyonce right after Kanye took the mic away from Taylor Swift to kiss her ass: awkward. If I’m not mistaken, the Nobel Peace prize is not historically awarded as encouragement, but as a reward for achievement. Obama has a lot on his plate. Jon Stewart recently observed that maybe, it was time to start eating. To... Read Full Story

Did we overestimate Barack Obama? We voted for the guy banging the hot chick in the bathroom, to abandon her for some playstation ownage. In stead we got a guy that passed out getting his picture taken with a testicle- draped forehead. Claiming change is one thing, but rolling with big dogs like Insurance Companies and the Military Industrial Complex is another. As the primitive majority chases its processed food enema with some high fructose corn syrup,  America is about to be cleverly coaxe... Read Full Story

When a nobody emails what he believes is a 15 year-old girl pictures of his wiener, and shows up at her house, the intent alone gets him arrested, and lectured by Chris Hansen on national TV. When a famous 47 year-old man drugs a 13 year-old child, and despite her pleas, inserts his wiener into her asshole, a team of psychiatrists can’t decide weather he is a child molester or not, and he is allowed to leave the country to finish a movie. When that man skips trial, but is caught, I̵... Read Full Story

Suspend the Health Care debate, never mind the escalation of Afghanistan, and forget the racist tea party mobs. We need to decide how to punish Kanye West. The wisest elder in our nation, Dr Phil, is very upset with Kanye’s despicable acts, and so should we! Inducing effortless vomiting, the sanctimonious orgy on TV is like a visual ipecac. It’s the MTV awards, not congress! Judging narcissistic behavior at this event is like fining an actor for the length of his Oscar speech. I l... Read Full Story

As far as political qualities go, Rick Perry has them all: A plastic appearance, and the will to say whatever will make him liked by stupid people. Watching him chant: “state’s rights!” will only remind a few people of the sixties, when the Klan did the same. Perry’s secession rhetoric is about as shameless and insincere as it gets. However, in the USA in 2009, wiping your ass with the pledge of allegiance will further your political career. Nostraboris predicts the ul... Read Full Story

The industrial propaganda machine raised you right. Still in diapers, you uttered the words: “Give me freedom, or give me death!“. When the answer was: “Here’s some guns and a credit card, now shut the fuck up!“, you did. As a pacifier, they gave you the 2nd amendment, and credit. Like a dog thrown a bone, you guarded your right to bear arms, even when it wasn’t under attack. When consumers were needed to grow the economy, you lined up to apply for the priv... Read Full Story

The Haliburton of disease, the insurance industry doesn’t exist to provide health care to the sick, but simply to take in more money than it spends by speculating on human tragedy. The need to make a profit not only raises the cost of health care, it makes limiting access a necessity. The lack of alternatives to commercial care explain why 50,000,000 taxpaying citizens of the wealthiest country in the world are unable to get medical treatment. Not only does this system endanger the li... Read Full Story