A lot of great things happened last night for the progressive left. Congrats… Now, let’s build on it! Democrats and those on the left are celebrating today, more out of relief than anything, I think. Relieved that we didn’t elect a tax-dodging, job exporting, “extreme [more...]
40 Senators overrule 58 — Only in America! It seems like it’d be an easy thing for senators to pass in an election year: a bill to help Veterans find jobs. But no-o-o-o-o. Because… 40 senators filibustered the bill — a bill that had 58 [more...]
It all unfolded like a badly-scripted tragedy, similar to the anti-Muslim video itself. Just coincidence? Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, as they say. So it is with the recent spread of unrest in the middle east, caused by reaction to an anti-Muslim video posted on [more...]
Ladies, follow Mr Akin’s advice, and Shut the Whole Thing Down! Rep. Todd Akin, R-Missouri, made a comment last week that is still reverberating throughout the blogosphere: “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut the whole thing down.” [more...]
As I write, British police have surrounded the Ecuadorian embassy there, demanding the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange into their custody. Britain wants to extradite him to Sweden, where he is accused of the sexual assault of two women, which he denies. He was [more...]
If greed is good, these Banksters are holy We used to have to worry about gangsters taking over cities in the U.S. Now it’s Banksters, and they’ve got the whole country on its knees. In 2008, the Banksters held us up, barrel to our heads, [more...]
No, guns don’t kill people (at least not by themselves) – but disturbed people who can buy guns more easily than they can get help with their mental illness do. And while America’s gun lobbyists chant said familiar refrain, assault rifles and automatic firearms are [more...]
What can be done when the glitzy media spotlight leaves you in the dark? Sometimes it seems the whole world has gone nuts. The daily media is full of tantalizing examples to grab our attention. Zombies are allegedly coming off the movie screen and eating [more...]
Science-haters: Close your eyes and ears! This brilliant high school girl, way ahead of her age in science, may have found the cure for cancer. She discovered a way to deliver cancer medicine directly to cancer cells, using nano-technology, thus sparing healthy cells and wiping out [more...]
Calling for a war of ideas, for the people and against the U.S. corporate takeover now in progress Well, we’ve finally ended one war (officially, at least). By the way, isn’t it so strange that nowadays, conducting more than one war at a time seems [more...]