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Politics Archive
Justice Roberts Troubled by Open Criticism of Supreme Court
Posted on March 10, 2010 | 2 CommentsLet me get this straight. The U.S. Supreme Court can choose a president it wants (Bush in 2000) or hand powerful corporations the legal tool they need to silence the...
Beyond the Palin: She Got Her Health Care in Canada
Posted on March 8, 2010 | 7 CommentsSarah Palin admitted in a Canadian interview that her family used to go to Canada to receive health care. That would be Canada’s single-payer health care system. The vocal opponent...The Mess We’re In: The Challenge of Melodramocracy
Posted on March 8, 2010 | 3 CommentsStories are impossible, but it’s impossible to live without them. That’s the mess I’m in. –Filmmaker Wim Wenders Progressive storytellers looking to advance transformational change have a problem. The problem...
Taking the Dress off J. Edgar Hoover
Posted on March 6, 2010 | 7 CommentsNow comes news that the rumors of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover’s fondness for wigs, dresses and such may have been overblown, even if he was too. Hoover had a...
Elvis Lives (Under a Bill White for Governor Sign)
Posted on March 4, 2010 | 2 CommentsBest photo of the young 2010 general election campaign. From Dee’s front yard, unsurprisingly. If you don’t know Dee, look at the picture. You do now.
The GOP Is A Hate Crime
Posted on March 4, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe Republican National Committee’s racist, deceitful fundraising presentation is just the latest example of a party that seems to have lost its moral way. It has more in common with...
Republicans Reserve the Right to Deny Service
Posted on March 3, 2010 | 3 CommentsThere used to be signs in Texas cafes that said, “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.” It represented post-integration segregation. “It’s not because you’re black (or Hispanic)...
Some Notes On the Primary Election: Weak Tea
Posted on March 3, 2010 | 8 CommentsWhile everyone’s talking about the extreme Right’s trashing of Kay Baily Hutchison and Rick Perry’s easy victory, other results seem to indicate the Tea Party is weak (if poisonous) tea...
Finding America’s Lost Horizon
Posted on March 1, 2010 | 1 CommentIn the late 1930s, Depression-weary Americans turned to a movie (based upon the James Hilton novel), Lost Horizon, about a hidden Himalayan paradise, Shangri-La. In the 2000s, anxious Americans turned...
Clockwork Orange Grove: England’s New Industry of Control
Posted on February 28, 2010 | 2 CommentsBack in 1971 Stanley Kubrick’s film, A Clockwork Orange, startled American audiences with its graphic violence and disturbing, anti-authoritarian message. Kubrick’s film version of the Anthony Burgess book was, in...