Author: Brian Dockstader

We all remember the lovable “Joe” the “Plumber”, just your typical Joe Sixpack, average American, undecided about whether he was going to vote for the evil socialist tyrant or Grandpappy McCain (amazingly this swingiest of swing voters chose McCain in the end–you could have knocked me over with a feather). Well the darling star of […]

O Sarah Palin, the gift that keeps on giving, no matter how earnestly we say, “no, really, we insist, we’ve had enough.” We said this after Dr. Palin’s informative essay, penned in the Washington Post about the big hoax of global warming and why we should do nothing about it. I say informative, not in […]

Another day, another town hall meeting, another angry mob of right-wing fanatics promoting lies and trying to shout down democratic discourse. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) was just one of many Democratic members of Congress to be descended upon by the angry right-wing hordes, demanding, well, nothing essentially, aside from our current broken health care system. […]

Let me preface this by explaining my rationale for labeling opponents of health care reform “health care deniers”. I call them deniers, in much the same vein as global warming deniers and Holocaust deniers, and for the very same reason. These people deny that we have a health care problem. They deny this in the […]

This morning my breakfast was ruined, ruined by an anti-health care reform ad on TV. Now I’ve seen innumerable slimy, disingenuous attacks ads in my days, but for some reason this one in particular struck a nerve. Perhaps it was just that the flat-out lies and misrepresentations were stacked so high on top of each […]