Hey there (a greeting-slash-junior-manifesto).

I hear it's a new dawn and everything since Obama got elected. Some day soon the Republicans might even stop pretending he's not an American citizen (though likely to start campaigning to give non-Americans the right to the presidency and running Schwarzenegger for the office). The fact of the matter is, even though the USA might seem on the surface to have become somewhat more liberal, we're still the victims of the most poisonous conservative ideology in the Western world.

Every day we endure the array of subhuman opinions that pass for "mainstream" in this country-- whether it's the American Taliban extremists posing as Christian Evangelists, the robber barons whose gluttonous greed we'll be paying the cost of for the rest of our lives, the hard-core bigots who have besmirched the name of "the American family" in the pursuit of their gay-baiting, or the heavily armed libertarians who believe that every American should be free to be exploited and shit on (by them). Most of us, being liberals, figure, hey-- we're the nice guys. We stand on the side of decency; we believe in fairness, in decency, in recognizing the evils of greed, bigotry, and inequality in this country and trying to set them straight. Even if we're outraged by the rape of this nation by the subliterate venom of these scumbags, we can't let anybody know except in our usual passive-aggressive little ways.

Fuck that. There's good reason for liberals to be angry, and there's good reason to make it plain. We know who our enemies are-- it's easy to see them, since their bosses own the majority of the media in this country and make sure to prop them up in every newspaper, on every TV station, and on every notch of the radio dial, retching up their bilious lies (and always claiming it's the LIBERAL MEDIA, folks, who are really the problem).

But just because they own the media doesn't mean they outnumber us. We're a decent people and many among us are fed up with this bullshit. And just because the Republican party is reeling from getting its ass handed to it in the 2008 election doesn't mean that they're going to go away, even for a second. It doesn't mean we're going to stop hearing ten of their opinions for every one of ours, and it doesn't mean that the most extreme reactionary opinions will stop being presented as "the political center."

So I've started this little t-shirt thing as a means for one person, plus a few more (that's you), to try and shift that political center a little bit back to the left by giving the option of expressing liberal opinions as loudly and angrily as we believe them. I'm in no mood for pulling punches from the crooks, liars, bigots, creeps, and scumbags who dominate the national discourse, and I wager that neither are you. So I'm doing it in a simple, American way-- stop by this site, check the shirts out, have a laugh if you like them, buy them if you REALLY like them.

Wearing a t-shirt won't change the world or the country or your life. But it does let off a little bit of steam while you're out trying to do all that other stuff, or even if you're in line at the supermarket behind a guy still wearing his Dubya'04 t-shirt like it'll bring that simian excuse for a national leader back. So here you are. Hope you like them.