So while Snow White was sailing merrily along and the Seven Dwarfs (yup, there are seven of them) were trying to figure out how to tarnish the mirror, she decides to take matters into her own hands and shoot herself in the foot by handing a cockamamie, stupid, derisive idea to the Repugs so that […]

I am a freelance educational writer by trade. The other morning, while working on grammar lessons, I was doing a bit of research online when I came across a homeschooling site that included the following boldfaced explanation of why studying grammar is necessary for Christians:
God has created and is sovereign over all things. He […]

The Pugs cooked up a seriously nasty initiative for California which called for changing California’s winner-take-all electoral college system to one that reflected the outcome of the individual congressional districts. It was as dishonest and duplicitous an effort as any the Pug has ever concocted. So much so, even the guy who wrote […]

The rabid right has worked itself into a state over Ken Burns’ extraordinarily fair, balanced and altogether pro-American documentary series, The War. Partly it’s the fact that it is on PBS and it it is an article of faith among conservatives that PBS is run by a bunch of commie, pinko surrender monkeys who use […]

I am invested in the illusion of Downy-soft capitalism.
People forget that the conservative project is restoring full robber-baroncy. That cancerous mole on your face removed at the doctors last week for $20 co-pay? That’s a philosophical outrage to the pigs driving the all-the-world’s-a-board-game train. That check your grandmother gets from the government that she uses […]

An unidentified “senior official” in the Bush White House, explaining why Barack Obama won’t be the next president: “It’s sort of like, ‘That’s all I need to get by,’ which bespeaks sort of a condescending attitude towards the voters … and a laziness, an intellectual laziness.”
My. Condescension toward voters and intellectual laziness. Imagine a country […]

Drew Western wrote an exceptional post that captures the outrage of where we really are, despite the whirling of the Pug’s Mighty Wurlitzer. He takes it to the Dems in no uncertain terms. Here’s one of about a dozen money quotes I could have chosen:
“(The voters know that) Democrats are weak in the […]

Here’s an item that should keep you walking the floorboards at night: a strategy concocted by Dick Cheney to get Israel to strike an Iranian nuke site in order to provoke an all-out response from the US.  I hope the Israelis are smarter than that, but given the leverage we have over them, it might […]

I understand the argument that big picture Democratic success requires small picture Democratic setbacks now, and that whatever is lost in strategic retreats before election success will be won back and more, past losses recovered.
I understand the argument that lesser neoliberals do make life slightly better for their human game-pieces than greater neoliberals, if for […]

Every now and then I read a post from the progressive side of aisle that makes my blood boil. The planned Latino protest over the lack of coverage of Latino participation in Ken Burns World War II series is one of them. Forgive me for not being particularly sympathetic, but I seem to […]