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Media Archive
The Smiling Political Brain: Be Happy, Think Broadly; Think Broadly, Be Happy
Posted on October 28, 2009 | 3 CommentsBroad thinking promotes happiness, and happiness promotes broader thinking. That’s the conclusion of a recent study published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. The study, by Harvard’s Moshe Bar, suggests that...
Balloon Boy and GOP Press Strategy
Posted on October 20, 2009 | 5 CommentsLost in the hoohah over the Colorado balloon boy incident is the simple fact that the strategy is practiced daily by a GOP that long-ago sacrificed truth to their inflated...
The (Media-Assisted) Rise of the Christian Right: And Now the Fall
Posted on October 19, 2009 | 4 CommentsBack in the late 1980s, I had a conversation with Molly Ivins about the religious right. I think they were calling themselves the Moral Majority then, doublespeak for being neither....
Lessons We Could Learn From “The Matrix” About Politics
Posted on October 15, 2009 | 1 CommentThis is my first post on Dog Canyon and I’m excited to be here. I’d like to introduce myself by sharing one of my passions – movies that combine political...
Roman’s Circus
Posted on October 12, 2009 | 5 CommentsAt a key point of the movie Chinatown the main villain, Noah Cross, a man who’s raped both the land and his own daughter, gives private investigator Jake Gittes a...
Nobel Decibels
Posted on October 11, 2009 | 2 CommentsAn American president wins the Nobel Peace Prize and the curtain goes up again on the Great Vaudevillian Media Exploding Head Follies. Limbaugh’s head goes “poof!” Beck’s goes “shree!,” and...
When LBJ Met Candy
Posted on September 29, 2009 | 1 CommentIt’s about 225 miles from Alvarado, south of Fort Worth, to Stonewall, west of Austin. Driving south, you cross the Brazos, ascend the Edwards Plateau, and keep going until you...
Signs o’ the Times
Posted on September 21, 2009 | 7 CommentsThe last few days I’ve been following—well, at least as far as my stomach will allow it—the “national debate” about whether the rightwing’s protests against Obama are racially motivated. The...