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Column: Awkward Family Photos: Mitt Laundry
Mitt Romney’s hurdle in winning the love/respect/admiration/fear of his party can be summed up in one photo: It was taken by his son, Tagg (doesn’t Sarah Palin have a kid with that name?) and put on Twitter this week. It’s of Romney and his wife Ann, presumably in a hotel basement, side-by-side pouring detergent into… Continue reading
The Atlantic: Occupy’s 4-Month Anniversary Protest: Small, Disorganized and in DC
The plan for the four month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street was the first national direct action by the movement thus far, a protest called Occupy Congress or #J17. Activists from all over the nation were to convene on the West Lawn of the Capitol for a National General Assembly (GA), followed by some teach-ins,… Continue reading
Column: The Case for Cutting and Running
Who would have guessed we’d have a national conversation about urinating on corpses? And worse yet to have people with a media megaphone attempting to defend it. The video of four marines desecrating the remains of a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan surfaced on YouTube last week. The first thing worth noting is this treatment of… Continue reading
Column: The GOP’s Long Sad March to the Inevitable Nominee
Republicans have a wide variety of conservative white males now vying to be their nominee. No really. Bear with me: They have former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich summing up the worst of the ”˜90s GOP. Not only did he shut down the government during his tenure, he attempted to oust a president for… Continue reading
Column: Despise Congress? We Are The 95%!
Feign shock while you read this: the latest Rasmussen Reports survey finds just 5 percent of “Likely Voters rate the job Congress is doing as good or excellent.” Yes, 5 percent of Americans think Congress is doing a good job. Which means 5 percent of those polled didn’t understand the question. Right after taking his… Continue reading
Video: The Young Turks on Current Talking Ben Nelson
Column: Republicans Have a Gambling Problem
We like risk and reward. The gold rush was as much a motivation to be a pioneer as was the more noted religious freedom. Poker is actually considered a sport. Yes, poker players are athletes according to the U.S. government. It’s the one sport you can train for while chain smoking in a tracksuit. But… Continue reading
Column: Confessions of a Child Janitor
My first job was cleaning the group home I lived in. True story. I participated in the Summer Youth Employment Program part of the Job Training Partnership Act passed during Reagan’s first term. It was a War on Poverty federal program considered to be an economic stimulus and a way to keep teenagers off the… Continue reading
Video: The Young Turks on Current TV
Radio: The Stephanie Miller Show 12/9/11
Tina Dupuy on the Stephanie Miller Show (2011/12/09) by karlfrisch
Column: The GOP is Occupied with Amending the Constitution
A perfect summary of the Grand Old Party’s relationship with the U.S. Constitution comes from Texas Governor Rick Perry at Mike Huckabee’s candidate forum on Fox News last Saturday. Governor Perry claimed as president he could overturn a law passed by Congress by executive order (he can’t), and then to show his bona fides on… Continue reading
Video: The Majority Report with Sam Seder on Occupy LA Raid
Column: Your Local Broadcast News is Making Us Stupid
“The media,” as it’s referred to, is not a monolith. We don’t just have one channel, one paper or one site with one nefarious dude pulling levers. “The media” consists of books, newspapers, magazines, television, billboards, radio, blogs, vlogs, ebooks, webcasts, podcasts and movies etc. The media is a vast and (kind of) diverse way… Continue reading