By: Jim Hoover Many progressives thought we were getting the antithesis of the incurious, swaggering, insensitive, mediocre, frat-boy Bush. Most of us were fooled. Indeed, Barack Obama is different in many respects, but the outcome of his performance is so Bush-like that I have to pinch myself into the…
By Jim Hoover There has always been a giggle-factor for those who claim they have seen Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Someday, I believe, the laugh will be on the doubters. At least two of the UFO photos above came from a pre-digital-effects period when photos were more difficult to…
By Jim Hoover Consumed with an ideology that would leave plutocratic boots on the necks of the middle class, ruthless Republicans have let loose a conflagration that will incinerate all that we have and all that our children and grandchildren could hope to achieve. Republican visions of heaven are…
By Jim Hoover For those who are buying potassium iodide tablets, there is another reason to panic. The Cascadia megaquake is long overdue. Run for your lives!! Well, wait a minute. This is only if you live in the coastal region of northern California, Oregon, Washington, or Western Canada.…
By Jim Hoover Why are these men smiling? Well, they have reason to smile. They conned voters into electing them governor. From left to right, it is Rick Snyder, governor of Michigan, Rick Scott, governor of Florida, and Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin. There are other Republican governors, candidates…
By: Jim Hoover I am an amateur student of cosmology, and I see parallels between the universe and the everyday world in which we live. Let the associated graph be your guide. The material world, at least what we can see, is composed of four percent of the universe; yet…
By Jim Hoover Five faces tell the story – or stories, as it might be -- of Fox News Network. It tells a narrative of angst and spectacle that bends minds, heaves hearts, presses attitudes, and makes pupils wide. Bill O’Reilly, a Fox news icon, is depicted with a…
by Jim Hoover With the ruthless and relentless monolithic corporate assault on anything getting in the way of stellar profits, it is easy to imagine any number of dirty tricks to achieve this end. The cause of greed has many allies in government and business. For example, Governor Scott…
By: Jim Hoover Republicans are united in pettiness and vindictiveness. If that isn’t enough, they lie with impunity; for a media that checks veracity has long fled the American scene. The neo-conservative paradigm they must follow requires certain generic qualities; that is, if they don’t want to be drummed out of the…