Repent Sinners; Sean Penn Is A Saint
Sean MurphySean Penn is a saint. Did that get your attention? Good. Since we know that there are no such things as saints, and we also know that the people we…
The Democratic Fault Line
So, fake tan is the new black? How do I feel about the idiot winds that blew this astroturf tsunami over our land? Eh... Certainly, it sucks to see a party…
Oh, and reducing the debt, too.
An ostensibly rhetorical question I read (and get asked) quite often these days is "Why bother?" Why bother getting invested in politics? Why bother reading all those papers and blogs…
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…
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…
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…
The Krug or, In The Court of the Commerce King
Good riddance to that cynical putz, Judd Gregg. And frankly, thank you very little Tim Geithner for your impenetrable, marble-mouthed "strategy", which wasn't exactly Viagra for concerned Americans' confidence levels. Let's make a bold move that…