Critical times: We need a collective flashback to the 60’s
Most of my posts are just links to recommended reading, but this article by Don Hazen of Alternet, AlterNet: Bring the Sixties Out of the Closet, I’m calling special attention …
Conversion tools: Pwned!
Sweet, sweet Jane! Jane Smiley’s smackdown is so luscious, so sharp and pointed, that if words could draw blood, these would. Another compendium of the many sins of Bushco and …
Shameless, blameless warmongers still reality-challenged
Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: The Death of Shame in our Pundit Class It is truly difficult to understand how these same people can continue to pompously opine on …
And the award for best motion picture goes to…
Daily Kos: Bush Disapproval Map: What More Do The Democrats Want?
Start counting
Let’s create a list of every idiotic thing George Bush has done in the past five years
Kinky’s rare and reckless voting patterns
News on the Kinky Friedman for Governor campaign, a fairly positive profile in the Austin Chronicle, and a rather disconcerting report in the Dallas Morning News (see BugMeNot to bypass …
Vote for Jesus!
From USA Today, an editorial about the use of religion by politicians who are ever willing to play the ‘God’ card Faith at its best, at its most powerful, stands …
Dreyfuss on impeachment train
Chug! Chug! Chug! Tooot! Tooot! This morning I caught part of Richard Dreyfuss giving a kick-ass speech to the National Press Club (which doesn’t have the transcript available for non-members). …
Children in charge
Jeanne of Body and Soul exposes yet another disgusting example of the immaturity — and counter-effectiveness — of the little boys who are running things in this country. Just pathetic. …