Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 10, 2009, 3:29 pm
Is the United States of America still even an actual country after the rise of far-right corporatism in the '90s? It seems like ever since then, and on an increasing basis, every country's la...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 10, 2009, 2:25 pm
Some folks in cyberspace think I'm being too provincial when I criticize the East Coast media giants for not understanding the politics of the great Midwest. Clearly, however, I'm more in ste...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 10, 2009, 1:54 pm
Eek! Nerf! Run for your life! Students at the University of Colorado are learning the hard way that the "zero tolerance" fascism that has enveloped America's schools has now graduated to the coll...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 10, 2009, 1:40 pm
Long story short: In Boise, Idaho, police sodomized a man by Tasering his anal opening while he was in handcuffs. Then they threatened to Taser his testicles as well. Then a police officer tried to h...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 9, 2009, 2:32 pm
I don't know if I've touched on this yet or not. I may have speculated that Congress might find a way to give itself a pay raise even though Social Security and military benefits don't ge...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 9, 2009, 1:55 pm
Since it's Wednesday, it's time to get Sessified! Because Muppets are mere pieces of felt, they have no feelings. So one many ridicule them without worrying about offending them. Like when we...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 9, 2009, 1:21 pm
When the media fails to question what are obvious falsehoods, it's hard for me to say it isn't complicit in spreading them. An effort by the far-right drug warriors to make Kentucky the secon...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 8, 2009, 3:40 pm
Glenn Richardson is the House Speaker for the state of Georgia. Big "family values" Republican. Because Richardson hates gays, he was a key supporter of anti-gay legislation. He also supports a hefty...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 8, 2009, 3:15 pm
Even though the Kentucky Post exists only in online form now, it's still surprisingly adroit at trying to put a happy face on corporate greed. Regarding Duke Energy's latest greed-driven rate...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 8, 2009, 2:56 pm
Joseph Bruno is the former Republican leader of the New York Senate. The longtime legislator has now been convicted on 2 counts at his federal corruption trial. Bruno had been accused of accepting mi...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 1, 2009, 2:33 pm
Who says McCarthyism went out with hula hoops? Anyone who has dared to publicly oppose Bush's illegal Iraq War has learned the hard way that it hasn't. Now it's been revealed that Jesse ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 1, 2009, 1:52 pm
Lovely. Kentucky taxpayers just provided $60,000 to a school's athletic department with money that was supposed to be used on academics. A state legislator secured $120,000 for academic projects ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 1, 2009, 1:25 pm
When you think of daily papers that are singularly dedicated to advancing a right-wing agenda, the struggling Washington Times comes to mind. The Times was founded and is still owned by Sun Myung Moon...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 1, 2009, 12:34 pm
In middle school, you may have learned about the scientific method. It's the technique by which researchers gather data to form a conclusion. In a vain effort to "prove" that the scientific metho...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 1, 2009, 11:44 am
Damn. Talk about a sense of entitlement! The U.S. Supreme Court is getting ready to hear an absurd case filed by wealthy Florida beachfront residents. The residents claim that the state of Florida sh...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Dec 1, 2009, 11:42 am
Sixteen weeks. That's as long as any song has ever spent at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100. It's about how long I was in high school before my first suspension there. It's 3 times as lon...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 30, 2009, 1:39 pm
This story lays bare the disaster that results when our public officials chisel away at individual rights but allow property to be used for unreasonable purposes. Because property thinks it's peop...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 30, 2009, 12:23 pm
Right-wing back-slapping over this development would be almost laughable if it wasn't such a serious matter. After a right-wing coup earlier this year overthrew the democratically elected Preside...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 30, 2009, 11:32 am
Living anachronism Mike Huckabee now has even more baggage on his hands if he ever becomes the Republican presidential nominee. Many of you are already familiar with the case of Wayne DuMond. DuMond ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 29, 2009, 11:57 am
Pevely, MO (11/27/09) - Greetings from fact-finding mish #59! There's nothing like combining business and pleasure, so I'm spending the evening writing new material for this marvelous blog! J...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 24, 2009, 4:05 pm
A headline on the far-right Canada Free Press website and other extremist sites blares, "Higher Taxes on Rich: Discrimination Based on Race?" In the article, writer John Lillpop claims that progressi...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 24, 2009, 3:13 pm
After a census worker in southeastern Kentucky was found dead in the woods with a rope around his neck, there was little doubt that this was a murder. Later, there was no doubt at all. But today, in...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 24, 2009, 2:32 pm
Everything within corporations; nothing outside them. The state of New York's highest court ruled today that a state economic development agency may seize private homes and other land to be turne...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 23, 2009, 11:56 pm
Behold! The downfall of a political party... Twenty years ago, very few congressional Democrats would have supported the type of right-wing media bailout that defined the 1996 Telecommunications Act....
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 23, 2009, 4:05 pm
These days, average Americans have to grovel just to get a minimum-wage job - but corporations receive billions of dollars in taxpayer money just for the asking. Now big homebuilders have received a ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 23, 2009, 2:58 pm
Last week was quiet on the POOP front - despite Google's thunderous demand for a court order the previous week. However, my eyes have detected a bit of an anomaly in my news feeds. I subscribe o...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 23, 2009, 2:13 pm
"Zero tolerance" disciplinary policies in America's slaughterhouse schools make criminals of the innocent but let the guilty go unpunished. And now you don't even have to be at school or at a...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 23, 2009, 1:21 pm
Days ago, I discussed the November 14 incident in which Tea Party thugs in Fort Lauderdale started a fight with an anti-racist group that opposed them. Ironically, the video of this episode was trott...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 22, 2009, 4:27 pm
Since we're on the topic of my planned road trip in Illinois in Missouri, I've discovered some interesting political facts and figs! It appears almost unavoidable that we'll end up going ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 22, 2009, 4:00 pm
I might - I repeat, might - go on a brief fact-finding mission in Illinois and Missouri next weekend. My last 2 fact-finding missions were only for public protests, and I went no further than Indiana...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 4, 2009, 7:31 pm
As 'Sesame Street' celebrates its 40th anniversary, I've noticed that Google has included Big Bird's legs in its logo the past couple days. But nobody can beat the ol' Osk! Why, ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 4, 2009, 3:52 pm
Meet Jennifer Miller, a member of the Mason, Ohio, school board. I profiled Miller before because (among other things) she demanded that creationism be taught in public schools. She also threw a big ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 4, 2009, 3:37 pm
Good news, good news, Boss! Another youth confinement program is closed - and hopefully it'll stay that way. A months-long state investigation of Mount Bachelor Academy near Prineville, Oregon, ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 4, 2009, 3:17 pm
Big banks are so eager to repossess houses, that they no longer even bother to make sure they have the right home! In Wheelwright, Kentucky, a man arrived home recently to find his house in shambles....
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 11:56 pm
Well, what did the DLC learn from yesterday's election? Anything?
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 10:51 pm
This time it's Albany, New York. In Albany's mayor election today, the Republican candidate finished third - with only 7% (!) of the vote. This election was won by a Democrat, while the Work...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 10:38 pm
"You had a bad day...The camera don't lie (except in Virginia)..." This contest isn't a Democratic pickup, because this seat was Democratic anyway, but in any event... The Democrats have now...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 10:21 pm
Rural upstate New York joins San Francisco and East St. Louis in the growing list of places where the Republicans are now literally a third party. In the special House election today in northern New ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 10:07 pm
Guess which one? Chris Christie, naturally. Yes, the guy we've laughed at the most. Of course, this wasn't without draining a substantial portion of the Republicans' war chest and basica...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 9:54 pm
The Democrats don't seem to be having many problems in major cities today. Cincinnati has reelected Democratic Mayor Mark Mallory by a smashing double-digit margin. What's particularly amusi...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 9:42 pm
Sorry about the delay, folks. I spent most of the evening battling browser lock. Anyway... The polls in much of the country are closed now, and I've got a result in that I didn't even see com...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 2:55 pm
Is America still the land of the free? If I'd known the country would ever come to this, I would have climbed into bed years ago and lived out my days reading maps and listening to old 'Ameri...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 12:40 pm
During a glut of deliberate assaults on bicyclists not long ago, I believe I touched on an incident in Los Angeles in which a motorist deliberately injured 2 cyclists. While driving on a narrow road l...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2009, 12:10 pm
BushAmerica means less regulation of Big Business but more regimentation of personal conduct. When the Obama administration issued new guidelines requiring federal authorities to keep their mitts out...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 31, 2009, 12:09 am
LeftMaps is as tied to this blog as right-wing think tanks are to the recent Tea Parties. What is LeftMaps? That's a question any child may ask you, but it is not a childish question. LeftMaps is...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 30, 2009, 2:26 pm
Workplace drug testing and RFID chip implants were bad enough, but now a new device threatens to nibble away at workers' right to privacy even more. American companies are using this little gadge...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 30, 2009, 2:05 pm
I really did speak too soon, didn't I? Public schools in Moundsville, West Virginia, are (in a local TV station's words) "doing away with" Halloween. School officials have been listening to ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 30, 2009, 1:28 pm
Damn. I thought I was gonna make it to November without a War on Halloween story. But I guess I spoke too soon! I know Pat Robertson's CBN usually never fails to entertain. So I shoulda known to...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 29, 2009, 11:32 pm
This is hope and change, isn't it? By October 30, I've usually found at least a handful of news items about the right-wing War on Halloween. This war usually takes the form of dominionists ge...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 29, 2009, 5:32 pm
You can't blame "the liberals" for this, conservos. (Try as though they have.) Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg - in his "rule by decree" fashion - has now banned bake sales in th...
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