The Rude Pundit: Rep. Alan Grayson May Just Fuck Your Shit Up:

This is rude and coarse, but I wiggled in my seat with glee while reading it.

Yes, Grayson is a wild card, but being above the fray only got Obama elected. Everyone else had a dog fight on their hands. Besides, the more we make Republicans look like do-nothing Talibangelical idiots, the better off we’ll all be. If you only option is to side with racist sociopaths, you can’t even pretend to claim the moral high ground.

Sure, they’ll try, but it will become more and more of a circus sideshow to the remaining sane people in America.

Alternet has a less virulent strain of Grayson commentary for ya.

There was once a nation that suffered through brutal socialism – forced equality, redistribution of wealth, salary caps, forced charity, and income tax.

Yet another reason to love Reddit:

This nation was led by a ruler who enforced the laws on threat of death. This ruler demanded that each person pay a 20% income tax annually. 10% was devoted to the poor and immigrants (this nation had virtually no immigration restrictions) and the other 10% went to government workers and infrastructure.

The richest members of society had restraints placed on their ability to generate wealth – an extra portion of their potential profits (above an established cap) was devoted for the poor and immigrants (on top of the 10%).

Labor laws were also strict. Weekends were enforced. Anyone caught working (or forcing others to work) on the day off was severely punished. And every seven years, workers and owners would take an extended vacation, living off of state reserves and private savings.

Most shockingly, the land and wealth of the nation was nationalized once each generation (about 50 years)- debts were forgiven, land and resources were redistributed, and each family restarted with a share of the wealth regardless of how successful or unsuccessful they or their forefathers had been.

So where was this socialist hellhole and who was it’s tyrannical leader?

The nation was called Israel and the leader was named Yahweh. You can read all about it in Deuteronomy.

Christians should read their Bibles more often.

YouTube – Zombies in Plain English

Get ready for this Halloween season with the following zombie survival video:

That said, given recent events this year, anyone dancing alongside Michael Jackson would probably actually be a zombie this year given that he would be one of the undead ghouls.

Assignment Detroit Project – TIME.com

Time is focusing on the death of Detroit and hoping to find stories of rebirth as well.

They even include some really, really depressing photos.

I heard about the project on Here and Now today so check out the interview.

As a bonus, ESPN is carrying a story on the Tigers making it to the playoffs and that is inspiring their fans to hope for better things, as sports at it’s best will do.