You radiate cold shafts of broken glass…
Sean MurphyQuitting? Wow. What a contemptible coward and laughable fraud she is. (And if this "plan" is so she can cry foul at the mean nasty (liberal) media for quoting people…
Goldman Sachs: It’s Hard Out Here for a Vampiring Pimp
Kind of like the situation in Guantanamo, it seems that all that can be said has been said of the soul-raping of American citizens by the Wall Street masters of…
The Washington Post’s slow, agonizing death spiral
As the once proud (or at least respectable) institution rots, the sights and smells become impossible to ignore. Charles Kaiser reports the latest debacle, one that makes the Post's transparent…
The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
I've said all I care to say about the disgraceful state of affairs at Guantanamo (both the conditions there and the circumstances that brought people there) here and here. But…
Bill Maher is the new Paul Krugman
This man is speaking big, and increasingly necessary, truths. E.J. Dionne articulated the political stakes of the health care "debate", David Sirota looks at the bigger picture and The Krug…
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality
"A perfect storm of ignorance and enthusiasm." That quote, attributed to a former CIA official who courageously remains anonymous, seems about as perfectly succinct a crystallization I've yet read regarding…
What Would Touchdown Jesus Do?
If they could just go to church and keep their superstitions to themselves, no one would give a second thought to what Catholics did behind closed doors (or, as the…
Ignorance Is A Warm Gun
Bob Herbert is often angry, and he's almost always correct. While most columnists (even at the liberal NYT) pussyfooted around the issue of the Bush Administration's ineptitude and brazen lawlessness, he…
Camille Paglia Needs an Enema
I have a confession to make. I read Camille Paglia. Of course, being a grad student in the early '90s, it was impossible to avoid Paglia in the Cultural Studies…
Memo to the Lunatic Fringe
Listen up, loonies: Obama is not going to take away your guns. Obama is not interested in taking away your guns. Nobody else is, either. However, if you happen to…