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Tarballs and Tainted History
Posted on July 12, 2010 | No CommentsOur friend Rachel Farris, otherwise known as blogger Mean Rachel, visits DogCanyon with a great post. We’re proud to welcome her to the Canyon, and recommend everyone read this, visit... -
A Troubling Pattern in America’s Obama Story
Posted on June 7, 2010 | 5 CommentsGeorge W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 and was appointed president by the conservative U.S. Supreme Court. A sanctimonious pundit class tells us it is crabby, unpatriotic and... -
When Johnny Came Home
Posted on April 28, 2010 | 2 Comments(Author’s note: The president is expanding American presence in Afghanistan. The Iraq war does not appear to be ending any time soon, in spite of significant troop draw downs. I... -
Coyote Nation
Posted on September 20, 2009 | 7 CommentsCoyotes have come to the city. I sit here writing in the foreshortened suburban night and listen to them howling and singing out back, hidden in what we used to... -
Texas Political Guidebook — Chapter Two
Posted on September 13, 2009 | 3 CommentsTexas is a place bursting at the stock-pens with proud and determined individualists who live by the motto: conform, or I shoot. To those not fortunate enough to have lived... -
Character Versus Brand: A Lesson in Framing
Posted on May 24, 2009 | No CommentsAdvertising and marketing gurus have so successfully established the importance of “brand” that we in the political sphere often lose sight of the real core of political argument: character. The... -
Little Words Mean Life or Death: Framing Health Care
Posted on May 10, 2009 | No Comments“Little words can mean death or life to someone.” -Electra, in Sophocles’ tragedy, Electra. People die who could be saved. People suffer who could recover. Those are the consequences of... -
Secession and Racism
Posted on April 19, 2009 | 1 CommentAnd now, just after the inauguration of America’s first black president, comes loud talk of secession and nullification. What a coincidence. It seems like only yesterday that right-wingers were condemning... -
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.