One should drink with smart people.
A while back, I had the opportunity to drink with a very smart woman who said, “Hillay will have an almost impossible time dropping out of this race unless Obama actually wins enough delegates. She is a good second wave feminist and it is her turn. She’s waited. She’s earned […]
Via The Washington Independent we learn that Helen Thomas went to Tuesday’s White House press briefing with Dana Perino and asked the questions few dare to ask, even of the most unpopular administration ever:
THOMAS: Yesterday, according to The New York Times, we dropped a bomb on a home in Sadr City and burned alive a […]
This week’s “very special kind of stupid” award goes to Kathleen Roberson, of Dove Creek, Colorado. Her letter in the Trib has a special mix of “bumpkin” and pearl-clutching, “Get me my smellin’ salts, Vern, I’ve got the vapors” kind of stupid and moral indignation:
During a visit to Salt Lake City, just blocks from […]
It’s rare, but it happens. I watched The Golden Compass last night and I have to say I think it was a better movie than book. Interestingly, all the kerfuffle from conservative christians about the film was a mistake - the film’s supposedly anti-Christian content is all but missing. To be honest, I expected more.
But […]
Before convicted criminal, Republican congressman, Bob Ney went to prison, he pushed the “Help America Vote Act (HAVA)” through congress under the false premise that it would help standardize the way America votes and come into compliance with the Federal Supreme court decision to break precedence and overrule states rights in the 2000 election contest […]
shit like this happens:
In September of 2007, the principal at Hollis F. Price Middle College High told teachers she wanted the names of all student couples, “hetero and homo,” because she wanted to monitor them personally to prevent students from engaging in public displays of affection.
The principal heard about them through another student, then wrote […]
I’ve just heard the finest sermon or speech I’ve ever heard in my life, given by The Reverend Jeremiah Wright. I’m old enough to have heard great speakers. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt after a shaky start in that venue; Hugh B. Brown, Harry Truman standing on the platform of the caboose in […]
The propagandistic name of Operation Iraqi Freedom must seem like a cruel joke to people trying to live in Iraq amid the chaos of the occupation and resistance. From Reuters:
Um Aziz is an elderly woman whose three daughters and a son were killed when the roof of her house collapsed because of the force […]
The lowest point of the abysmal ABC debate, hosted by George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson, came when they inserted a patriotism smear against Barack Obama. Because the smear would have sounded petty and stupid if asked by the moderators, it came instead in the form of a short video featuring Nash McCabe, a Pennsylvania […]
The massive raid upon a polygamist compound in Texas is one of the major violations of human rights in this country. This atrocity, shocking in its initial sweep, hugely over-broad , of children and their parents, gets worse day by day. Now, the pitiful last means of parents to communicate with their […]
As a child, one of my favorite books was Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising. When I saw it was being turned into a film, I was pretty psyched. Christopher Eccleston starred as the Dark Rider and he is one of my favorite actors, so I figured that was a good sign.
I rented The Seeker […]
In case you missed it, yesterday Chris Matthews and guest Jon Soltz of VoteVets delivered some serious hardball. The hapless victim was an Iraq “surge” advocate and McCain supporter, Vets for Freedom Executive Director Pete Hegseth. Matthews got visibly irritated at Hegseth’s dishonest GOP talking points.
The key exchange went like this:
Matthews: “John McCain […]
Via DailyKos, Pulitzer Prize winning author Steve Coll speculates that Osama bin Laden (OBL) might be found before the November elections. His reasoning goes like this:
Pakistan’s Musharraf regime believed that their $10 billion aid package might be reduced if they tracked down too many al Qaeda leaders
Key elements of the regime had close ties […]
The corporate media circus exposed via BradBlog in all it’s commercialized glory. Don’t miss “Lapdogs Of The Corporate Press!“
I find it difficult to fathom that Bob Mould’s genius and now classic Workbook was released almost twenty years ago. I know a lot of folks whose copy of Workbook is one their desert island list.
Great as Workbook is, my favorite Bob Mould solo has always been the less appreciated Black Sheets of Rain […]
There’s a presidential primary campaign, complete with dirty tricks (let’s run the video clips of that crazy black preacher one more time!) –and the news media have largely forgotten that American soldiers are still fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even CNN’s excellent Saturday report “This Week at War” with Tom Foreman has been renamed […]
When I was a young Army officer, we had a sarcastic saying to describe a troublesome, unavoidable, and possibly career-suicide assignment: “it’s an opportunity to excel.”
Up to now, Senator Barack Obama’s campaign has been pretty good at dealing with a barrage of hypocritical accusations. Thanks to the right-wing noise machine and their […]
Of course that’s the headline many of us disenfranchised citizens would have liked to have seen after Democrats finally stood up to Bush and the telecommunication giants, AT & T and Verizon for ignoring the FISA law and illegally wiretapping American citizens. I wouldn’t count on any present day media outlet portraying the Democrats […]
The hardest thing about being a Democrat these days is that people are always saying there’s no difference between the two major parties in this country of ours. If you say you’re mad at the Republicans for making a mockery of the constitution and giving their illegitimate and foolish “president” the authority to lie us […]
From PBS NewsHour last night: Nir Rosen, one of the most astute observers of the Iraq occupation, insurgency and civil war, debated Fred Kagan, the neocon architect of Bush’s so-called “surge.” Kagan is so invested in Bush administration propaganda that he won’t even admit that Iraq is under U.S. occupation. […]
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