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Love and “Lost” in a Brokedown Palace
Fare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell. Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul. Grateful Dead, Brokedown Palace The... -
Zorg Republicans: The GOP’s Mad Chaos Strategy
In Luc Besson’s campy movie, The Fifth Element, the villainous Zorg wants to rule the world. Like many a villain before him, Zorg (Gary Oldman) makes chaos his philosophical and... -
“Mount Vernon Statement” Erases Equality, Rights
Conservative leaders’ pompous and self-congratulatory “Mount Vernon Statement” twice refers to the line “self-evident truths” from the Declaration of Independence. Conspicuously absent, however, are two of those self-evident truths: that... -
A Better Mouse Trap for the Age of Rats
American democracy is a better mousetrap. Unfortunately, it was born in the Age of the Rat. It isn’t just any old rat, either. It is a magical rat that somehow... -
“Take Back Our Country”: From Whom? Oh. The Voters.
There’s a persistent refrain among Sarah Palin fanatics — and New Confederacy governors like Rick Perry — that they want to “take back” America from the thieves who took it...

