Most Recent in Rants on BlareShare:

Following the reveal that the IRS had been using keywords like “Patriot” and “Tea Party”  to identify social welfare organizations that required further review before being granted tax exempt status (which is totally logical by the way), I came across an article in Slate about the side effects of this “Worst Conspiracy in American History!!!!” The article [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

… 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 [...]

We already know that factions within various Christian institutions, including the Catholic Church, have called the Paul Ryan budget immoral – but now we have something new to shed some enlightened light on the current policy and “moral” positions taken by the Republican Party of the Obama age. A newly elected Pope (and finally one [...]

There’s a lot of interesting attempts at passing laws coupled with revealing formulations (literally) surrounding what is a very significant problem in the United States: we’re fat. America is a fat, lard-ass country. NYC mayor, Michael Bloomberg’s sugary drink ban (nanny state or not, you gotta give him props for being brave) has been stopped by [...]

The distinguished man from Wisconsin is stuck on a bad political gig as if he’s the opening act for a Vanilla Ice / Los Del Rios tour. Scratch that. Paul Ryan is on the side stage with his band called The Budget… yeah lets go with that one…. The Numbers Guy Congressman… that’s his stage name… it’s a [...]

As post-industrial society continues its relentless stomping through time, why aren’t more people asking, “Why do counties have credit ratings?” Doesn’t that feel odd or out of place in a “meaning of it all” sort of way? Shouldn’t it strike us a bit dodgy that the same “agencies” that rate junk bonds and penny stocks [...]

Let’s face it: the Republican Party is a fractured mess. After the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, allowed the more extreme and non-compromising part of his party complain and vent their anger like children who found coal in their stockings for Christmas, he finally brought the Senate bill to “avoid the fiscal cliff” to [...]

Once again, Washington DC fulfills all our expectations and fails to get anything of any consequence done. As all the New Year’s parties begin, we can turn towards our political “leaders” and offer a collective, “What the ???!!!” to those who have again failed, entirely, to do something that’s good for the country – for the sole [...]

Guns are a product just like anything else. That’s why the NRA and gun manufacturers lobby so aggressively, and advertise the way that they do: to sell the product. The second amendment is secondary to profit motives for gun lobbyists.  Who else in the world has products that have literally annexed rights in the constitution? Not a bad [...]

Humility is a funny thing; and apparently it’s becoming a trait that is less and less seen in the everyday people we pass on the street. History is also a funny thing; and apparently becoming more and more “un-studied” in how people, countries, and politics operate. Why does any of that matter? That which kills [...]

Is the good senator from “papers please” Arizona still angry about losing the 2008 election? Why is John McCain pounding his chest about Benghazi over, and over – and over – again in his outrageous, irresponsible, politically-motivated, bitter-tasting, revenge-seeking-reeking manner? (… with the more extreme right-side of the republican party in tow for the TV cameras, of course…) To [...]

Why is everyone acting like they are surprised that very powerful men who oversee billions of dollars of spending get caught having affairs (email, of the flesh, booty-calls or otherwise). And why so surprised that an FBI “friend” of one woman who “entertains” said powerful men started to get very jealous that he was being [...]

The Equation: Guns + Paranoia = Bad I am not a gun owner, but my father is, and I had an old .22 when I was a kid. I grew up in gun cultures; some states that are humble strong-holds for the NRA lobby (Cheney shot his friend in the face in one such state [...]

Watching a Mitt Romney political rally today in one of the swing states, it really feels like a cult; packed full of inside jokes and cursory chuckles; hoots, whoops, hollers, and bent vissions of reality the likes of which only Scientology can parallel. And I’m NOT talking about rank-and-file republicans; just the extreme right. We must be [...]

While I clearly “side” more with liberals, I’m sick and tired of Democrats acting like they are a herd of 1000 sheep who refuse to boldly cross an impasse, because they’re too scared that just one among them might be a wolf in a cunning costume, or (heaven forbid) someone might get offended. (ok… you’re [...]

Right-leaning and probably even moderate America: I’m here to offend, so be ready. We call them rants for a reason. Republicans are primates in mind and soul (those who have souls). They are lower life forms in many ways. Even highly intelligent (by means of things like test scores) are lower life forms – they [...]