The Jump Blog

This is the first of a three part series that advocates socialism in three specific sectors: the arts, health care, and education. This first installment deals with the arts. These are pretty in-depth discussions and more than a little lengthy.
I’m a reluctant capitalist. Not because I have any particular idealogical objections to capitalism, […]

I’m a Fred Thompson supporter, and for the worst of reasons: I like his style.
There’s also the fact that the rest of the Republican field makes Paris Hilton look substantive and electable. Come on, you know it’s true; this is 1996 all over again. Without Fred Thompson in the pack the Republican National Convention is […]

Editorial Note: I like profanity and find it very useful (as I often demonstrate on this blog). There are times when no other word will do. I also hate governmental intrusion, artistic insincerity, and the criminalization of thought. All of those feelings, and not any specific animosity toward the author of the comments, lead me […]

FOXNews.com - U.S. Military: Leaders Can’t Lead - FOX Fan
Now, I’m no retired colonel, I was never anything more than a piss ant squad leader, so I feel obligated to defer to Col. Hunt’s rank –but that’s where my deference ends. It’s hard for me to fathom how a man can be so mistaken, especially […]

H/T: Blackfive
If Only War Reporting Were More Like Sports Reporting - Early Warning
I didn’t comment on the William Arkin comments earlier this year. The guy is just so obviously a Class A Tool™ that I wouldn’t have known where to begin.
I’ve also been trying to tone down the rhetoric and profanity level here in an […]

The War on Guns: Guest Editorial: Rock Em
I’m gonna sum up the above linked post for you and then descend into caustic commentary.
Summation: The American Way of Life is being threatened by illegal immigration and the proper response to inattentive politicians is pointless vandalism. The reason this would be a proper and possibly effective response […]

Dick Durbin impersonator that is.
Garrison Keillor is a consumate professional, a booster of Roots and Americana music, a fine radio host, an instinctual historian, and a fine author. He’s also a flaming Liberal (he is on NPR after all, it’s in the contract), a fact that I have chosen not to let bother me for […]

As a kid I loved Robert Conrad’s portrayal of Pappy Boyington in Baa Baa Black Sheep. It would appear that many of the younger (and more clueless) residents of my state don’t share my enthusiasm. As reported by World Net Daily the utterly ignorant University of Washington student senate rejected a proposal to erect a […]

Disclaimer: There’s plenty to be offended over in this post. If you don’t want to be offended, stop reading now. Unless, of course, you are a Muslim, in which case I couldn’t give a smaller shit how offended you are if I squeezed my sphincter for an hour.
Asked about recent violent protests following the publication […]

I don’t understand diplomacy and diplomats. The only time it works is when one or both parties aren’t that committed to the dispute to begin with. Diplomats must willingly ignore this simple and obvious fact of history in order to ply their trade. And what is that trade? Words.
As they displayed in response to the […]

How it is up to a patient to decide when to end his life. Tell me again how there is no culture of death. Tell me again about all of the safeguards in place to prevent the priests in the Church of Modern Science from exercising their “best judgment” when it comes to living or […]

UNICEF is running an antiwar ad in which they bomb the Smurfs. Yeah, you heard me right. They send in the bombs and blow those little blue bastards back to the stone age. No word on whether they were the actual target or perhaps just collateral damage caught in the ongoing war on Gargamel.
What the […]

I wrote the following in response to some European friends of mine in a discussion we were having on socialism as practiced in Europe and the definition of socialism here in the US, where it is a dirty word on the order of communism.
Well, socialism isn’t quite communism by my definition, but they are separate […]

Today, “Dean of the Senate” Robert Byrd (D-W.VA) responded to Bill Bennett’s radio show remarks with the following statement:
“There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I’m going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I’d just as […]

I am gonna cut this short as I am working on a longer article for all of the things I missed over the last week, but suffice it to say that the Superdome is done. That place will have to be razed to the ground to be profitable again. Ditto the convention center. The Saints […]

The following is an excerpt of a note I wrote to a friend of mine who has some serious issues with how the Federal government handled itself in the aftermath of Katrina.
I’m not trying to make light or make fun of any of the victims of the hurricane but I do think that many […]

A buddy of mine just posted this. It is purportedly from a career law enforcement officer who spent the last three days in New Orleans.
I got back from New Orleans last night about midnight. I was there since Tuesday morning. I had six hours of sleep during that time.
Lafayette fared pretty well during the hurricane. […]

and speech is supposed to be free in this country. Are we going to target the countless hordes of hip-hop, pop, punk, and rock performares who glamorize and use alcohol, and drugs during their shows? No? Then why target her? This is simply odious. Using the power of the state to inhibit legal expression –especially […]