Robert Becker
- Location
- California, United States
- Birthday
- January 01
- Bio
- Educated at Rutgers College (BA) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D, English) I left university teaching (Northwestern, U. Chicago) for business, founding and heading SOTA Industries, high end audio company from '80 to '92; from '92-02 I did marketing consulting & writing; from '02 until now, I scribble on politics and culture, looking for the wit in the shadows.
MY RECENT POSTS
- NRA ‘Charity’ Ransacks
‘Enlightened
Self-interest’
May 15, 2013 01:01PM - NRA Jungle Law Domesticates
Bush War Doctrine
May 03, 2013 02:55PM - ‘Rapture Politics’
Harnesses 4 Doomsday Horsemen
April 17, 2013 04:35PM - Five Reasons To Stop Worrying
& Love the Sequester
March 27, 2013 12:35PM - Deadline to Fund Critical
Ocean Plastic-Trash Film
March 17, 2013 10:38PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Where else would the NRA
look to justify its
non-profit
status but public
service…”
May 15, 2013 07:55PM - “Libby, NYC
You
don't lack for passion
yourself. What a great
response,
for
rarely…”
May 04, 2013 05:56PM - “Time for an overview how
the NRA's reign of terror
makes war
against longterm
Ame…”
May 03, 2013 03:00PM - “Truth or
consequences?
Or more
accurately an experiment in
wide-ranging
unintended…”
March 27, 2013 12:39PM - “Plastic Trash
Documentary
Funded!!
SUCCESS! FINAL
TOTALS OVER THE TOP
461
backers
$2…”
March 24, 2013 03:26PM
Robert Becker's Links
- 335 Views
- 5 Comments
Oligarchic Senate Still ‘Treasonous’ After All These Years
OCTOBER 13, 2009 4:19PM EDT
- 327 Views
- 8 Comments
Waiting for “Barack the Battler,” like waiting for Godot
JANUARY 25, 2010 5:30PM EST
- 165 Views
- 2 Comments
Tax Betrayal Hardly the Unkindest Bush III Cut of All
DECEMBER 10, 2010 2:10PM EST
- 270 Views
- 13 Comments
American History Belies Obama’s Empty Unity Myths
JANUARY 21, 2011 12:31PM EST
- 297 Views
- 6 Comments
The Looming Menace of the Protestant Ethic
OCTOBER 24, 2012 3:44PM EDT
- 242 Views
- 3 Comments
National Parks: Antidote to GOP's ‘Government is the Enemy'
OCTOBER 6, 2009 1:54PM EDT
- 610 Views
- 5 Comments
Obama’s SOTU: “We are all Republicans”
FEBRUARY 2, 2010 11:20AM EST
- 209 Views
- 1 Comments
Rightwing Posse Solves Prison Glut – Criminalize, Jail
APRIL 5, 2011 6:43PM EDT
- 204 Views
- 2 Comments
'Whatever it is, I'm against it'
AUGUST 23, 2011 12:53PM EDT
- 320 Views
- 2 Comments
President Everything To Nearly Everybody
NOVEMBER 2, 2011 1:20PM EDT
- 267 Views
- 4 Comments
Will Perry's Oops Disgrace Texas As Palin Did Alaska?
NOVEMBER 14, 2011 4:12PM EST
- 303 Views
- 4 Comments
Does Bad Behavior = Power & Glory?
DECEMBER 5, 2011 6:03PM EST
- 277 Views
- 1 Comments
Loons, Goons & Buffoons at the GOP Circus
JANUARY 17, 2012 6:14PM EST
- 332 Views
- 5 Comments
Bashing Obama’s America, Fringe Snatches Victory from Defeat
MARCH 14, 2012 1:51PM EDT
- 290 Views
- 3 Comments
“Don’t Retreat, Reload”: Vigilantes at Large
APRIL 4, 2012 2:08PM EDT
- 153 Views
- 4 Comments
A Vulture Capitalist for a Vulture Culture
OCTOBER 14, 2012 1:57PM EDT
- 141 Views
- 3 Comments
NRA Jungle Law Domesticates Bush War Doctrine
MAY 3, 2013 2:58PM EDT
- 424 Views
- 3 Comments
In Oligarchy We Trust: Government Fattens Bank Cartels
SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 6:16PM EDT
- 195 Views
- 4 Comments
The Audacity of Nope Rewards the Party of No
JANUARY 22, 2010 10:57AM EST
- 515 Views
- 3 Comments
The Party of No Class–No Change Strikes Out
MARCH 26, 2010 1:34AM EDT
- 211 Views
- 1 Comments
Elections Bestow Legitimacy – Not Birther Hallucinations
APRIL 1, 2010 11:14AM EDT
- 275 Views
- 4 Comments
Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Phoniness
APRIL 19, 2010 4:43PM EDT
- 210 Views
- 3 Comments
The No-Drama, No-Storyline Obama Tragedy
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 5:16PM EDT
- 183 Views
- 2 Comments
Good Gag, Delaware GOP: Senator O'Donnell?
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 7:04PM EDT
- 269 Views
- 1 Comments
W.'s Double Whammy: Blitzes GOP and Democrats
NOVEMBER 17, 2010 2:13PM EST
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