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O Brother, What Culture War?
Posted on February 1, 2009 | No Comments“It’s a fool looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart…What the hell is that singing?” – Everett, in “O Brother Where Art Thou” The New York Times’...The Real Battle Line
Posted on January 25, 2009 | No CommentsIn his first couple of days in office, President Barack Obama signed executive orders closing secret prisons, ending state torture, and erasing eight dangerous years of official government secrecy.Follow the Drinking Gourd
Posted on January 18, 2009 | No CommentsAs Barack Obama spoke of hope in a Wilmington park named for Harriet Tubman and abolitionist Thomas Garrett, just north of the Mason-Dixon line, some Republicans were still setting loose...The Blair House Project
Posted on January 11, 2009 | No CommentsAn Iraqi newsman throws his shoes at George W. Bush. Bush throws a house, Blair House, at his successor, President-elect Barack Obama. And so goes the ignominious end of the...Listen for the Truth
Posted on November 23, 2008 | No CommentsHere’s a paradox of the internet revolution and the rise of net-based activism: As more and more citizens outgrow 20th-Century media-induced passivity and political consumerism, as it becomes easier to...Beyond 2008: Hard Work
Posted on November 9, 2008 | No CommentsPundits almost never get post-presidential election analyses right. Remember 2004′s “value voters” who, it was believed, emerged from the church sanctuaries to re-elect George W. Bush? Stupid exit poll methodology...We’re All Socialists! The McCain/Palin Campaign for Big Insurance
Posted on October 26, 2008 | No CommentsNot too many years ago in Texas, a right wing operative told the mainstream press I was a communist. Even in Texas the accusation (based solely on my mocking of...Imprison Voter Suppression Conspirators
Posted on October 19, 2008 | No CommentsAs television network and cable reporting on the collapsing economy diminished last week, John McCain gained an inch or two on Barack Obama. Three cable news shows I watched on...The Great White Hope
Posted on September 28, 2008 | No CommentsHere’s how the protagonist was described: He developed a more patient approach than was customary…playing defensively, waiting for a mistake, and then capitalizing on it…[He] always began…cautiously…[and] gave the impression...