Tag: Hugo Chavez

  • A Short History of Election Fraud

    A Short History of Election Fraud

    AN OPEN MEMO TO SEAN HANNITY It’s not like I’m not sympathetic to the notion that elections can be stolen. It’s just that the people talking about it are such fucking parvenus. All week on FOX Sean Hannity said he just wanted to see an honest election where every vote gets counted. Sounds reasonable. Except,…

  • Tim Kaine’s Unlikely Biography

    Tim Kaine’s Unlikely Biography

    Tim Kaine isn’t shy about trading on his year in Honduras as a Catholic missionary. Accepting the V.P. nomination, he said, “My faith  is my North Star for orienting my life.” He had gone to a Jesuit high school, he explained, with the motto “men for others.” It led him to volunteer as a missionary…

  • Who Killed Hugo Chavez?

    Venezuela is a country in mourning over their late president, Hugo Chavez. "The fight goes on! Chavez lives!" shouted the mourners in unison, many through eyes red from crying late into the night. But even as  his flag-draped coffin floats over a sea of supporters on its way to the cemetery today, “conspiracy theories” continue…