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The Birtherism of a Nation
Posted on August 24, 2012 | 1 CommentMitt Romney is now and has always been running the “I’m the white guy” campaign. The strategy’s not his alone. The GOP’s four-year approach to the 2012 election has been,... -
GOP Wolves In Grandma’s Nightie — Run, Red, Run
Posted on August 23, 2012 | 3 CommentsThe male-dominated Republican Party really is engaged in a nationwide campaign to give government – the government of their dreams – control of women’s bodies, at least those women’s bodies... -
Recognition Through Violence
Posted on July 22, 2012 | 1 CommentWithin a few hours of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, the film critic Roger Ebert made a provocative observation in a New York Times essay: I don’t know if James... -
The Right’s Dreams of American Apartheid
Posted on July 15, 2012 | 6 CommentsIt’s tragic but not surprising that the election of the nation’s first black president would accelerate a racist, nationwide movement to disenfranchise people of color, the poor and the elderly.... -
Eagle Forum backs Limbaugh, says Sandra Fluke “should be absolutely ashamed”
Posted on March 5, 2012 | 2 CommentsYou really don’t want to look under some rocks, but then sometimes the rocks are picked up by others and you have no choice. That happened to me this morning... -
The Aspirin Papers
Posted on February 22, 2012 | No CommentsHenry James’ novella, The Aspern Papers, is about an unscrupulous obsessive who tries to deceive two vulnerable women to obtain the objects of his desire, the letters of a long-dead... -
Poll Finds Americans Support Sex “Contraptions”
Posted on February 15, 2012 | No CommentsSurprised that 65 percent of Americans support President Obama’s contraceptive initiative, we decided to look a little deeper into the poll. We were surprised only because we heard so many... -
We’re No Angels: Americans, Church Doctrine, and the Pill
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsWhat’s all the fuss about Americans not following religious doctrine? Seriously, we all know that none of us dance and drink as passionately as Baptists. Few are as happy with... -
And, On Piano, Dick Nixon: Music and Anarchy
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 2 CommentsWhen then-President Richard Nixon sat down at the piano on the stage of the Grand Old Opry in 1974, he was reinforcing a conservative, polemical wall of sound to help... -
Untamable Melodies: Music’s Revolutionary Spirit
Posted on January 15, 2012 | 2 CommentsAlone in the walnut-paneled music room, his favorite of Fair Lane Mansion’s 56 rooms, automobile tycoon Henry Ford picks up one of his two Stradivarius violins. It is 1920 or...