By Sunfell Apple wants me to be a Pod Person. Seriously. According to them, I’m the frumpy, square, humorless, uncreative, stuck in biz-mode PC guy in the ads. I’m the one not […]
What if reporters simply refused to pretend that Paris Hilton was news?
Wow. It may all have been scripted, but I don’t care – MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski is my new hero. This is priceless. Happy Friday, everybody… [Thanks to Aaron over at 5th Estate […]
Too much Rush? Dems lose bid to regulate talk radio
Rush will drone on, relatively unopposed, on the airways. So will Sean and Bill. Overlooked Thursday because of the various political and media brouhahas caused by the defeat of the miasma known […]
Recent statements from morons
We have eliminated the danger of sectarian war. — Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki this week to visiting Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. I do think that it would not be a […]
Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!
By Robert Silvey Any discussion of race in America must begin with the fact that for 388 years African Americans have been victimized, and for most of that time they were treated […]
The Jena 6 and the “old” South; or, plus ca change…you know the rest….
“You can’t understand it. You would have to be born there.” – Quentin Compson, Absalom, Absalom, referring to the South Too often those of us born in the South fall back upon […]
Your tax dollars at work
By Rori Black According to the National Priorities Project (NPP), Colorado tax payers will give $2.1 billion in 2007 to fund the Iraqi war. It’s comforting to know that we are so […]
Echoes from the culture wars: excerpts from immigration bill rhetoric
If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an amnesty bill. That’s empty political rhetoric trying to frighten our citizens. — President Bush May 29 at […]
Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
By Martin Bosworth I had the pleasure of subbing in for Sam for a conference call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today. Although there were a good number of progressive bloggers in […]
Campaign mobile: it’s 1996 all over again
Every time a new medium catches our attention we have to endure this awkward period where people who have decision-making and spending authority but no understanding of the medium at all treat […]
