Practicalmadness

Howard Zinn posits — on the fourth of July, no less — that flag-worship is “one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred.” I find it hard to agree with Zinn when he’s...

A sane person would acknowledge the reasons why we need to withdraw, but surely we can't be expect anything like sanity from our government, now can we?

Another headline I considered: "FEMA to Ravaged Louisiana: Pay Up, Bitches."

I don't know about you, but I'm not sure if it's worth it to defend the American ideals of liberty, democracy and delicious free markets by setting up _gulags_.

So apparently we have an opposition party in this country! What a concept!

And the hits just keep on comin’: I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was indicted today by the grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame affair, and will be resigning his position as the vice president’s chief of staff. The other target of...

What bliss. Unless you're a Bush supporter, in which case I am truly sorry for the loss of your brain. It must be very hard for you.

Our lame duck Administration's lame-o Supreme Court nomination is in trouble, and someone might actually have to answer for their role in the Valerie Plame affair. Why, it's almost like Christmas.

Barack Obama, the Democratic junior senator from Illinois (more specifically, Chicago’s South Side) has just launched a podcast. This is major: not only is this a serious validation of podcasting as a means of reaching the people, but it’s...

Vote, you bastards!

Why We Cannot Endorse President Bush For Re-Election: From The Tampa Tribune › The editors of a Florida newspaper that has endorsed the Republican candidate in every election since Eisenhower in ‘52 refuses to endorse either Bush or Kerry....

Billionaire financier and outspoken Bush opponent George Soros (late of his war of words with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who implied that Soros was a drug kingpin) has just started his own blog. Many people have written to me with...

Anomalous Data - “It’s OK. Don’t think about it too much, and it will be OK”: The teacher told of an exercise wherein he read from both the Bush and Kerry websites.  He read where each of the candidates stood...

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo posted a reader e-mail accusing him of drinking the GOP kool-aid because he’s starting to argue that those CBS Killian memos might in fact be, uh, forgeries: For a long time. TPM was even...

I just caught John Kerry’s Tuesday night appearance on The Daily Show on my TiVo yesterday, and while I’m still not super-enthused about his candidacy I didn’t come away half as disappointed as Slate columnist Dana Stevens who slammed the...

The work of Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has gotten a man off Death Row, made sense of Stephen Hawking and convinced many Americans that switching to Apple is not the end of the world. Now he’s engaged...

Josh Marshall’s Talking Points Memo has been giving great coverage of the recent announcement of former GOP presidential candidate Alan Keyes as Barack Obama’s opponent for Illinois’s vacant Senate seat. If anyone thought that Alan Keyes was going to start...

The Democratic candidate for POTUS chooses his running mate.

Regarding Jack Ryan's clear and present danger in the hunt for red november.

Voting for Nader is dumb. And I am so not pining for Lucy.

Like the laws against drunk driving, cocaine use and stealing elections, apparently this embargo applies only to people not named Bush.

In which a slogan is deconstructed.

In which I stick up for Sean Penn and start wondering why I leave comments turned on.