Carl Gibson

One consistent set of characters on the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! are the characters Carol and Mr. Henderson -- Carol is an office secretary, and Mr. Henderson is her abusive boss. Carol always finds herself somehow stimulated by Mr. Henderson's constant verbal abuse and berating...

I like to compare those using Black Bloc tactics at a nonviolent protest to taking a six-year-old kid to the symphony. You'll likely find yourself constantly apologizing to those sitting in your row when the child makes fart jokes every time he hears the tympani. No matter what...

Remember when police beat Tea Party activists with batons, raided homes without warrants, unjustly arrested and strip-searched Tea Party protesters, or attacked and intimidated journalists covering Tea Party rallies?

Me neither. But then again, the Tea Party took to the streets in favor of higher profits and less regulations for...

The world needs more billionaires like George Lucas.

George Lucas, worth $3.2 billion as of 2011, may have ruined his reputation with his fans by creating Jar Jar Binks and making a travesty of a film like Episode 1, but his latest move may be the...

Imagine yourself as a youth playing neighborhood baseball games on the street in the summertime. What if the parents of a bratty, asocial kid demanded their son be included in the game, too? Would the other kids who come out and play from all over the neighborhood still be willing...

We are no longer citizens participating in a democracy. We are shareholders attending a meeting of a large, corrupt corporation. Call it Americorp.

As shareholders, we sit face-forward, quietly, while the CEO, or president, makes his presentation, glossing over balance sheets and quarterly earnings, assuring us that the company is...

Where in the world can we go to get an accurate picture of where capitalism will inevitably lead us 20 to 30 years down the road?

Communist China, ironically.

When referring to sheer numbers, China's economy has grown to the point of invincibility. The unemployment rate is incredibly...

Rand Paul isn't a libertarian, he just plays one on TV.

The spat Kentucky's junior U.S. senator had with the TSA last week ignited a flurry of news coverage on his supposed refusal of a full pat-down and subsequent confrontation with law enforcement. Paul's spokesperson said he was...

If you put long hours and hard work into a job, would you be upset with a boss who paid you with a handful of nickels, especially if hundred-dollar bills spilled out of your boss' pockets while he dug around for the coins?

As taxpayers, Americans expect to get what...

Like most other little kids, all I wanted to do was eat junk food, play video games and goof around with my friends. I didn't like being made to go to school, going to bed at 9 PM, eating vegetables, doing homework after school, or taking out the garbage. And...

After the swearing-in of the first Congress elected by unlimited corporate election spending, 2011 went down as the year Congress fiddled while America burned. Republicans and Democrats both took their turns engaging in their fair part of naked corruption.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported on clandestine insider...

Like every liberal activist and preacher's son, I have arch-conservative family members who don't agree with my philosophies, whom I see every year on the holidays. This year, Occupiers have nothing to worry about. When that uncomfortable conversation starts at the dinner table, we can appeal to their religious upbringing...

Reporters at the Houston Chronicle are asking the wrong questions.

A Nov. 11 headline reads, "30,000 arrests caught in backlog at Sheriff's Office." The article explains that almost 20,000 misdemeanor warrants are backed up in the police database, straining Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia's staff. Garcia lamented that...

As the lead Republican negotiator during the manufactured debt crisis, Eric Cantor had the podium all summer long. He walked out of the early debt talks, insisting on a cuts-only solution. The House Majority Leader readily dismissed sensible proposals like ending billions in wasteful tax giveaways for corporations...

In October of 2003 Steve Jobs first learned that he had pancreatic cancer. His doctors and family members urged, even pleaded with him to have surgery, but he opted instead to try alternative and natural remedies. It was a decision he would later regret. America is faced with a similar...

In Les Confessions, Rousseau wrote, "Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: 'Let them eat cake.'" This 1782 quote has become the iconic slogan of class oppression by the ruling elite. While the...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently said America should be guided by "the Christian values that this country was based upon." Even though Article 11 of the John Adams-endorsed Treaty of Tripoli states "the Government of the United States of America, is not in any sense, founded...

What would you say to a family financial adviser who suggested your wisest investment would be to liquidate your own retirement account and empty out your kids' college fund to buy your wealthy cousin a new Bentley? Would you go ahead and gamble with your life savings in hopes that...

The drought in Texas on Friday was so severe that this month, the city of Kemp shut off the city's water, leaving hundreds of people in the small North Texas town without a basic necessity for two days. Kemp's pipes haven't been updated in...

If you were a patient in intensive care, sick and in pain, what would you say to a doctor whose only recommendation was cutting off your blood supply, meals, therapy and redirecting your pain medicine to another patient who was already healthy and well? Would you follow your doctor's orders,...