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Americans are idiots. It sounds “ranty”, but this is actually a serious problem. A few years ago I assumed the far-right conservatives within the United States were simply experiencing something akin to hormone-driven teenagers going through an anger phase (due to a black man being elected President)… but now… I’m not so certain. I think [...]

Are the 3 people who died in the Boston bombings more important than the 26 who died at Sandy Hook? Republicans think so. Killing 26 with one gun requires no action whatsoever by our politicians, but killing 3 with two bombs shuts down an entire city. I’m not claiming that the Boston bombing wasn’t terrible. [...]

Democrats whine, cower, and adapt. Republicans shout, point fingers, and build bunkers. That basically sums up The American Way of the 21st Century. These types of “democrats will destroy the world!!!” Internet searches continue to come into BlareShare – the far right paranoia and fear of change are impressive  indeed. While I know that the [...]

It’s time for the people, the “news personalities”, and the fear-based businesses who have been exploiting The Afraid and The Paranoid in this country to stop pumping toxins into our metaphorical water. It’s time to get responsible. Senator Shelby (Alabama), Senator Wicker (Mississippi) and President Obama have been sent ricin letters. Senator Manchin’s office in W. [...]

Political and social theorists are circling the wagons to say who is responsible for the bombing in Boston. We should care more about who motivated it. Fix the motivation and stop the problem. Who or what motivates and encourages an extremist to perform acts of terror assumes some responsibility for the actual terrorist act. People who teach [...]

What’s wrong with most democrats? They’re metaphorically left-handed while trying to negotiate in a right-handed world. The result:  a never-ending decision tree where little ever gets done. Most days, democrats as an Idea make me think of the spunky runt puppy of a very large litter. The one whose eyes are a little bit too big [...]

Washington made great strides late in the week by deciding not to filibuster the (poor excuse of a) gun safety bill. On a 68 to 31 vote, the Senate managed to allow debate… We live in an odd and sad country when simply allowing debate is a major accomplishment in politics. Thank you, Republican Party [...]

Now that the incredibly weak “gun bill” has gotten out of committee (but likely won’t go any further than that this round), we’re pretty certain that there will be further runs on guns at the local gun shops of America. I won’t even get into how meager this bill actually is, mainly because the NRA [...]

If curiosity killed the cat, fear and paranoia kills the crazed, ideological gun lover… and those around him. I’ve been talking with a lot of people about crowd psychology in relation to the NRA and extreme right-wing, anti-government rhetoric lately. What strikes me is a distinct difference in how much those who consider themselves “true [...]

In what Senator McConnell is calling  ”a Nixonian” event, Mother Jones has released some recordings of the campaign office of Senator McConnell’s staff discussing less than honorable approaches to attack then potential candidate Ashley Judd. Important fact: the senator has no proof of any buggin. He just threw it out in a repeated talking point [...]

Interesting reality of the republican lifestyle, isn’t it? Selective memory normally has something more to due with a teenager forgetting that he was asked by his parents to take out the garbage. But in the world of republicans being controlled by the gun lobby, it means wearing flag pins and sporting banners that proclaim “We [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I dig democrats, and I’m much more of a democrat than I am a republican… but the Democratic Party makes me just as angry and crazy as republicans. Too often they seem poised to actually do something, then they pull a Harry Reid (folding, withering, caving, etc.) and back away from [...]

So the anointed supreme leader of North Korea has authorized nuclear attacks against the United States… all normal when you live inside a bubble. North Korea… Republicanland… it’s basically the same: The longer you spend inside a bubble, the more you turn into a yapping toy poodle. But we do hope this kid isn’t as [...]

Convinced the U.S. government is out to get them, the extreme right-wing culture in America has more in common with the average North Korean than they do the average American. They share the same sense of self-glory intertwined with imminent doom – but in Republicanland America – life is thickly coated in a Norman Rockwell glorification [...]

“Some families pass on the tradition of treasure hunting. Some families pass down idealistic libertarianism. Found at the end of the path, though, they both stand – looking down – at a dead end where X marks the spot of their wasted effort.” When a slogan sounds like a pre-school nursery rhyme, one knows it’s [...]

The Republican Party has a tendency to throw its heroes under the bus (often without realizing it). It’s like the satirical tribe in a far off land who always throws its gods into the raging volcano. Theirs is the bus of lost hope. A volcano of  dreamed goals motivated by their own paranoid nightmares. When you’re stuck on an [...]

… believe it or not, that’s what we’re talking about when it comes to personhood laws like North Dakota and a smattering of other republican lead states: an embryo has the same human rights as a human being. Extreme republicans in North Dakota want to put a full stop on abortion, but they’re trying to do it in [...]

Zombies do like their brains. So, too, will the political scientists and strategists of the next generation of national campaigns (because let’s face it, zombies are expensive and not many local campaigns can afford to hire them – the dental coverage alone is cost prohibitive). Maybe zombies and political operatives have something in common… The [...]

We were going to let Sarah Palin’s speech at CPAC 2013 slide by without much attention, but her performance was too… too… to not get at least a wee bit of attention from BlareShare. First, Sarah Palin’s CPAC speech was quite entertaining, and almost made for a Best or Favorite of the Day, but there [...]

When a threshold is crossed it cannot be uncrossed. When we have a life experience it cannot be unexerienced. We can’t unhappen 9/11. We can’t erase WWII from our cultures, and we can’t stop the world from offering us a progressive series of more tomorrows. No one knows what significant experiences will happen tomorrow… but [...]