Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 8, 2012, 3:26 am
With Idaho and Tennessee preparing to pass laws that would specifically outlaw Occupy protests, right-wing legislators' immaturity stuns us. Tennessee State Rep. Eric Watson launched a tirade in the ornate Tennessee House chamber against Occupy Nashville - which he's trying to have shut down (even t...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 8, 2012, 2:35 am
As you know, I went plumb to the Occupy the Super Bowl gathering in Indianapolis on Sunday. If you think the smashingly successful Occupy Cincinnati marches have been big, the events of the past week in Indy dwarfed even most of those great rallies, and it just goes to show that the Occupy movement ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 6, 2012, 11:02 pm
I went to the excellent Occupy the Super Bowl protest yesterday in Indianapolis, and I'm too tired to produce a detailed account of it here yet. But I can't delay my praise of Occupy Oakland for their latest doings. Today, a Tea Party group called Stand for Oakland amassed about 40 people for a prot...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 3, 2012, 3:11 pm
You can tell a lot about where American society stood at a given time by looking at the typography on road atlas covers...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 3, 2012, 3:15 am
Since we're on the topic of the protests against Indiana's new work-for-less law, why weren't there any big protests when Oklahoma enacted this unconstitutional law 10 years ago? Surely, there must have been some demonstrations in states that passed this law before then. What changed before Oklahoma...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 3, 2012, 2:57 am
I've been madder than hell the past couple days. On Wednesday, as you may know, Indiana became the first new state in a decade to adopt a misnamed "right-to-work" law. Geographically, this makes the Hoosier State somewhat of an outlier, as no state that borders Indiana has this anti-American law. In...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 3, 2012, 12:42 am
Welcome to the wacky, topsy-turvy world of food administration in conservaland. This is where nontoxic, natural substances are demonized while poisonous artificial sweeteners and frankenfoods are heavily promoted with no regulation whatsoever. In an article that sounds like it's straight out of the ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 3, 2012, 12:39 am
Remember the Tea Party? It's now been revealed that a public lawn in Los Angeles was destroyed by participants in a Tea Party rally. After Occupy L.A. camped out on City Hall's lawn, they offered to hire landscaping companies out of their own pockets to repair any wear. The Tea Party, on the other h...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Feb 1, 2012, 2:15 pm
This is not a story about government abusing eminent domain - but a corporation abusing it. Central New York Oil and Gas Company is attempting to condemn land owned by private individuals in northern Pennsylvania. The company wants to build a gas pipeline through the homes and farms of over 150 land...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 31, 2012, 3:37 pm
Gosh. I was such a sore loser in 1994 when I said Gingrich's House Republicans stole the election. Damn, I must look like a fool now that - Hey! Wait a minute! What's this?! Now Gingrich's presidential campaign is under a criminal investigation by the state of Virginia for felony election fraud. See...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 31, 2012, 2:28 pm
Imagine if you can the intensity of the outcry if any city posted a sign saying that no Tea Party followers could enter town. Well, Oakland plans to do just that with Occupy participants. The California city has enjoyed one of the most vibrant and effective Occupy protests. But now right-wing Mayor ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 27, 2012, 11:51 pm
Because I think highly of representative democracy, I think mighty highly of policies like the Voting Rights Act. But it's time to update and expand it. One feature of this 1965 federal law says that states and counties that were using a device to disfranchise voters and had low rates of voter regis...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 27, 2012, 2:31 pm
Just from its very name, few entities seem as dignified as the Library of Congress. Indeed, this libe is one of the U.S. government's most important institutions. But one day back in the late '80s, the dignity of the Library of Congress met its match at the hands of one of my high school classmates....
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 21, 2012, 2:02 pm
Only 3 things in life are certain: death, taxes, and Republican gerrymandering becoming even more grotesque with each decennial census. But this time, Republicans in Kentucky may have finally bitten off more than they can chew. Faced with the fact that population trends favor urban areas that are be...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 20, 2012, 9:57 pm
I'm almost inclined to take back anything negative I've ever said about Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon). A couple years ago, Wyden was known for harboring some ridiculous, discredited ideas about America's fight against meth - ideas that threatened to sicken millions of Americans. But now he's almost - al...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 20, 2012, 2:05 pm
Such a shame that the old Highland Heights Elementary School building is being demolished. What's perhaps equally shameful is the fact that - by closing this school - the Campbell County school district deprived an entire community of equal educational opportunities just because of its economic leve...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 20, 2012, 12:52 am
Be on the lookout for bizarre, trollish posts that have plagued the comment section of this blog lately. This blog has a fairly open policy, so weird items do get through sometimes. On the other hand, don't fret if your comments don't show up right away. Sometimes it takes all day. I've worked on th...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 19, 2012, 12:37 pm
I know Bush was a scandal-a-day guy, but Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney gives ol' Dumps a run for his money. (I assume Romney is still leading the GOP primary even though it was just certified that the laughable Rick Santorum actually won Iowa.) After it was revealed that Romney - b...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 18, 2012, 6:34 pm
Ya know, we're starting to like this guy. I wasn't militantly against Obama, but when you add this story to the announcement that he will oppose the unconstitutional SOPA, it looks like America may finally have a President. The Obama administration has decided that it will reject the job-killing, la...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 18, 2012, 6:14 pm
The debate is over. Climate change is real and is caused by human activity. But now Texas and Louisiana are requiring public schools to teach that climate change denial is a legitimate scientific position. Legislation to this effect has also been introduced in other states. With schools in at least ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 15, 2012, 11:57 pm
Memo to those who insist Clinton was so much better than Obama: This story shows how Democrats are supposed to govern. Whereas Clinton endorsed right-wing ideas like school uniforms and allowed a rogue Congress to repeal most of the Glass-Steagall Act, Obama is taking a different course. The Obama a...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 15, 2012, 2:32 pm
For the past few years, the Republican National Committee has bankrolled a coordinated campaign attempting to build public support for requiring drug tests to receive welfare, disability, or unemployment benefits. The idea is unconstitutional, because you need probable cause before testing somebody....
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Jan 13, 2012, 4:24 pm
"America, America, this is you..." Rick Santorum looks like Bob Saget! He truly does! He looks even more like the guy in the Burger King commercials who wears a hamburger outfit, but the original point still stands. Our latest 'LCQ' highlights this phenomenon...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2011, 1:29 am
As massive as Occupy Cincinnati has become, I can't believe there isn't more coverage of what I consider to be one of the protest's pivotal moments so far. 　 I call it the Peppermint Incident, and I was part of it yesterday! A group of about 6 of us broke away from Piatt Park with the intent of pr...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 3, 2011, 12:50 am
Not counting police riots like that in Oakland, this story is at least the third documented instance of politically motivated violence against the Occupy protests. 　 Last night, the driver of a Mercedes-Benz struck 2 participants in an Occupy Oakland march. According to a witness, the motorist int...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 1, 2011, 6:02 pm
As a participant in Occupy rallies, I can assure you firsthand that we have ZERO tolerance for serious crime. I speak for every Occupier I know when I say that if we suspect criminal activity during our events, WE CALL THE POLICE. End of story. 　 ... to get help for rape victims. 　 That's a li...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Nov 1, 2011, 2:51 pm
Here's a heads-up for my fellow Kentuckians... 　 Elections for governor and other statewide offices lurk next Tuesday, November 8! We're out of the endorsement business these days, largely because the Democrats have become such a colossal disappointment, but a few words are in order. 　 Democrati...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 31, 2011, 1:25 pm
Busted! 　 Kenton County, Kentucky, may be the site of the first significant legal action against the Tea Party. (It's also where I famously heckled a Tea Party event.) After teagaggers were caught forging signatures in a ballot drive, the county attorney is now SUING the petition firm under the RI...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 31, 2011, 1:24 pm
If you needed any more evidence of the degree of delusion harbored by the Tea Party thugs, you can now rest easy. 　 In Richmond, Virginia, city and state police broke up the Occupy Richmond rally. Yet the Richmond Tea Party claims the Occupy movement has received better treatment than them, and th...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 28, 2011, 2:56 pm
We ain't crazy and we ain't lazy. We're the 47%! 　 Much noise has been generated by the fascist right lately about how only 53% of Americans pay federal income taxes. What they don't tell you - but which everybody knows - is that it's the richest 53%. The other 47% doesn't have to pay it because t...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 28, 2011, 12:44 pm
As of now, at least 2 Occupy protests have been the target of major violence - not counting police riots like the one in Oakland that fractured a Marine's skull and put him in critical condition. 　 On Sunday, a rally in Portland, Maine, was hit by a bomb made from a Gatorade bottle. Now the Occupy...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 24, 2011, 1:33 pm
Hey, remember when you laughed at all the times I talked about how violent the lunatic right is? But folks in Portland, Maine, are realizing it's no joke. An Occupy Maine encampment was attacked yesterday by a bomb. The device consisted of a chemical mixture in a Gatorade bottle. It exploded under a...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 21, 2011, 4:49 pm
You may remember the commercial where a kid declares, "Wow! A Tony the Tiger art pen!" But when you watch our latest 'LCQ', you're gonna say, "Wow! A new computer!" I just buyed a new computer. Apparently, viruses had begun digesting the old one I got 5 years ago, so that one was nearing the end of ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 21, 2011, 2:57 pm
I think most folks are getting a little tired of The Media telling them what to think - especially the Cincinnati Enquirer, one of the most right-wing and biased major newspapers in America. Now they've introduced a poll asking whether The Media has given too much coverage to Occupy Cincinnati. You ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 21, 2011, 12:24 pm
We might not like confrontation, but it gets folks' attention. It angries up the bile. Gets the wheels turning. If Brossart had never done anything worse than fining me $100, do you think I'd have ever started The Last Word? We do what we do as a response to confrontation. Serial harassers at school...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 14, 2011, 2:26 am
Somebody suggested I do a tribute to Steve Jobs for my next 'LCQ'. So this 'LCQ' talks about how his beautiful computers liked to tout their own hardiness even after enduring a marathon abuse session from middle school kids...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 13, 2011, 9:03 pm
+ Right-wing Sen. Scott "Records" Brown of Massachusetts has now been caught plagiarizing Elizabeth Dole's website. Oops. Is Record Man gonna start talking about "Smash Mouth politics" next? + The War on Drugs continues to be completely discredited: Former NYPD Detective Stephen Anderson now admits ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 13, 2011, 3:48 pm
When you think things can't get any weirder, they always do... A corporation that owns an apartment complex in Canton, Mississippi, is trying to evict dozens of residents because they filmed a rap video out in front of the building. Needless to say, the building owner has no legal leg to stand on. I...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 10, 2011, 11:25 am
Since Occupy Cincinnati shows no signs of letting up anytime soon, allow me to bring the latest info to those of you who are still unfamiliar with what we stand for... The Cincinnati protest is now on day 3 of continuous activity, though now it's gravitated to Piatt Park downtown. Over 20 participan...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Oct 9, 2011, 7:30 pm
Cincinnati saw its first protest based on Occupy Wall Street yesterday, and it was an amazing sight! I got back from my Big Bend trip last night, and I was able to get down to the Occupy Cincinnati protest on Fountain Square at about 10 PM. There were still about 500 people there, and I heard there ...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 30, 2011, 1:23 am
Zoos are cool. 'Zoo' is even a cool word! I goed to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha during my Nebraska trip. But I never got around to sharing footage of it until now! Now I finally have the chance to regale you with scenes of this educational event that aims to instill good stewardship of our natural...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 29, 2011, 7:02 pm
I told you that if the Republicans rigged the 2010 election, our side was going to come down very hard - when the Evil Empire least expected it. Now it's happening! It's called Occupy Wall Street. The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have spread outside New York and into countless other cities - bi...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 29, 2011, 4:20 pm
His cries to the contrary notwithstanding, GOP presidential frontrunner Rick Perry doesn't give a shit about the Tenth Amendment - or the Constitution overall. "You either have to believe in the Tenth Amendment or you don't," Perry has been quoted as saying. "You can't believe in the Tenth Amendment...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 27, 2011, 3:35 am
This clown proved last night he's as worthless as ever (even when he isn't crying about his toilet not working). After a hard-fought battle, the Senate staved off a government shutdown by approving a must-pass funding bill by a vote of 79 to 12. Guess who was among the 12 to oppose this must-pass bi...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 27, 2011, 2:01 am
Three days ago, who woulda thunk we'd not only see funding for both FEMA and an endangered green jobs program but also avert a government shutdown? It sure as shit looked like we'd get funding for neither - plus the shutdown. But a funny thing happened. Not ha-ha funny but unusual funny. Senate Demo...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 27, 2011, 1:28 am
The book-burners at Clear Channel are at it again. Everybody remembers when Crap Channel released a list of songs right after 9/11 that were blacklisted from its stations. Now one Clear Channel outlet has banned the song "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster The People because it's about a spree killer. As yo...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 25, 2011, 3:19 pm
This isn't mere vandalism. This is terrorism. In the past few days, 4 live pipe bombs have been discovered in rural Campbell County - particularly in the Licking Pike area. The most recent was found in a mailbox yesterday. Who's the asshole behind this? Probably the same sort of neo-Nazi thug who se...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 23, 2011, 3:13 pm
You work hard and play by the rules. And now Congress is about to shut down the government and ruin that vacation you had planned for one of America's great national parks. Congress gets off on this shit, don't they? Not like they have to worry about when to take their vacation, because they go on r...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 23, 2011, 1:29 pm
Simon Leis Jr. is the longtime sheriff and a former prosecutor and judge in Cincinnati's Hamilton County. The 77-year-old Republican is like the Joe Arpaio of Cincinnati. But now he's retiring at long last. Leis crusaded for years against porn - but eventually, the local citizenry stopped giving a s...
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Tim B. posted an article on The Online Lunchpail ™ - Sep 23, 2011, 1:16 am
Never trust right-wing loudmouths to get their facts straight. Meet Andrew Malcolm, a far-right commentator at the already right-wing Los Angeles Times. We've profiled him before because of his inability to grasp basic truisms. Now he's at it again. President Obama appeared at the I-75 bridge in Cin...
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