A Half-Assed Howard Beale or, The Crocodile Tears of a Clown
Sean MurphyRight now Paddy Chayefsky is: a. Rolling over in his grave b. High-fiving Peter Finch in heaven c. High-fiving Peter Finch in hell (where it's Happy Hour 24/7) d. All…
Jim Webb: Still Fighting
Not a week ago I was thinking to myself how quiet, even absent from the scene, Jim Webb has been since the election. If there is one politician I'm not worried about…
Taking It To The Streets?
In today's NYT, Sudhir Venkatesh (author and Sociology professor at Columbia) contributes an op-ed entitled Too Down To Rise Up, In it he posits the intriguing, and depressing, theory that…
Props to Nick Anderson and Apologies to Smokey Robinson
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Obama: Time to break out the Fagles
A one-two punch that makes me feel worse, not better, than I did yesterday. First, at The Huffington Post, comes Robert Kuttner's ominously entitled Geithner's Last Stand, here. Then,…
You Using the Whole Fist, Wall Street?
I can't get that hot, asphalt taste out of my mouth. We're all out of money, it seems, but there is plenty of tar to go around. I was only…
This Just In: Richard Cohen is still a Clown
I've found ample reason to be disgusted with Richard Cohen's clownish and self-aggrandizing claptrap many times in the past, including back in January, when I made the following observation: When…
Dead Man Walking
Abortion is a woman's choice? Homsexuality is not a choice? What on earth is a high profile Republican doing make comments like this, in public? There is absolutely no place…
Texas: The New Island of Misfit Toys?
You know the drill. There is no chin under Chuck Norris’ beard; there is only another fist. There is also no brain under Chuck Norris’ head; there is only the…
Send Another Moses
While the Republicans continue to reel, and dig themselves a bit further into that crevasse (while, not wanting to lose any time in the spotlight in an apparent race-to-the-death to see…