(WARNING: prolonged exposure to corporate right-wing toxins can cause unfounded and unnatural fear and loathing of "others", decreases in income and productivity, increased wheezing due to unregulated industrial waste and a marked rise in purchases of Sansabelt Slacks®.)

The more the corporate right-wing tries to influence, cajole and otherwise force-feed...

Since the GOP's campaign issues have little or no credibility as constructive policies after having been field-tested under W for eight rot-inducing years, what then are the GOP presidential contenders being judged on?

Style, m'man, style (sansabelt slacks, anyone?).

With the jaw-dropping inanity of each of the entrants being inadvertently...

So, I'm on Twitter. @TheStevenWeber. (The "The" was only because there are a number of "other" Steven Webers. Anyway:)

It's fun and it's fast. I liken it to hurling dumbass jokes from the window of a moving car, which I used to like to do in the days...

Were an individual to demonstrate the kind of delusional, violently divisive thought and paranoid rhetoric that all of the GOP candidates -- as well as the party overall -- they'd be put under observation and found to be a danger to society.

One could say that the GOP presidential candidates...

The Republicans have tipped their hand -- spilled it all over the floor, actually -- and demonstrated beyond doubt that they are solely dedicated to crippling any idea that Americans should have hope, that Americans should be nothing less than afraid and that history and facts are merely vague, noisy...

To those who still haven't made the politics/news/entertainment connection yet, even though the unholy nexus is on display every time a TV screen (or AM radio) is switched on, the daily events that are classified carelessly as "news" would seem thoroughly authentic.

Balderdash, I say!

I mean, was the...

Forget the conventional media analyses of the current Right Wing/Corporate political machine's behavior, analyses which presume the presence of a conventional system of moral and ethical beliefs.

Forget it.

Because the current Right Wing/Corporate political machine's behavior defies presumptions of a conventional system of beliefs by which democratically...

Once again, the daily blabbery about who will replace Obama -- let alone oppose him -- in 2012 continues.

And because the public has been almost fully conditioned into a rarely challenged state of unnatural expectation of immediate gratification, seduced by technology's embrace of the HEY! WOW! IPHONE! IPAD!...

In 2012 Barack Obama will win a second term as president of these United States.  

And all because people are finally seeing the right's malicious methodology with every passing smear, relentlessly peddled historical inaccuracy, knee-jerk flavor of the week endorsement and garish scheme it spawns.

It's like when the...

"I shall put my breath into you and you shall live again and I will set you upon your own soil." -- Ezekiel

"Jews are nuts." -- Mel Brooks

Growing up in the New York City borough of Queens was relatively low-impact for me, though my upbringing was...

As the great Donny Osmond once crooned, "One bad apple don't spoil the whole buncha girls!"

And while that may have been true as far as squealing, Mary Jane-wearing pre-teens were concerned when so informed by the leader of the popular Mormon quintet (later to become a popular Mormon sextet...

Roger Ailes didn't so much as take a page from Lee Atwater's book as Andy Kaufman's.

It's the most hilarious show in town: the rhetorical gymnastics executed by the Right, taking every hard-fought victory for the United States after decades of reputation-destroying policy failures and outrageously unhinged attitude and twisting,...

Take care of old people.

Take care of sick people.

Help those find work who cannot find it themselves.

Invest in education.

Encourage humility.

Fix roads, homes, pipes, wires and tracks that are in need of repair.

Regulate industries that pollute the environment.

Find alternative energy sources.

Invest...

It's fascinating -- and oh so depressing -- how American culture has been literally decimated, reduced to numbers or stories about numbers, its cultural essence condensed to so many dollars and so little sense.

There was a time when the dull, sexless rolls of stock prices were rightly relegated...

Come 2016, the defining story of the previous 8 years will not be the massively coordinated effort to centralize corporate power through the use of brazenly undemocratic, underhanded methods, huge though that is. It will be the concerted, unflagging, coordinated efforts to denigrate the presidency of Barack Obama and give...

As predicted, the election of Obama definitely lit the keg the right-wing's been sitting on for some time.

As recent years have proven, everything has a saturation point. Of course, ideologues and deniers always leave themselves out of that possibility, out of the natural order of things. They deny...

It seems that virtually the entire field of Republican presidential candidates (not to mention the "as yet undecided" ex-pol narcissists and the myriad lesser lights making up the rest of the right-wing nincompoop roster) is comprised of characters Vince McMahon might have cooked up while sipping a Joe Weider protein...

Hey, right-wing corporate hate machine!

Go ahead! Win the day!

Cut health care! Abolish the FDA! Strip education!

Let seniors "fend for themselves"! Let returning soldiers, rife with PTSD and unemployment rot!

Embrace the über wealthy! Jettison the über poor!

Let the middle class shrivel and die!

In the decade since 9/11, the country has in many ways reacted the way a single family would have if their beloved home had been attacked and destroyed and members of their family brutally killed, the family's nerves and fortunes stretched to never-before-considered breaking points.

And each day since...

An admittedly simplistic metaphor:

A house has been set on fire and a firefighter is dispatched to put it out.

Certain people, however, physically restrain that firefighter from putting out the flames.

Moreover, as the house continues to burn almost to the point of collapse and the resources...