Been an interesting month. Those who really ought to know details probably know them already ( Read more... )

I know that it's been a while since I made a substantive post. Just haven't had much I felt compelled to discuss that I hadn't discussed to my being tired of it in other fora ( Read more... )

Now I'm all for anything that energizes the under-40 crowd to be involved and get out to vote, so I'm not criticizing the rally for sanity/fear in theory. I have a greater problem with the execution, however. Specifically, with what Jon Stewart, who I usually love, had to say with his platform ( Read more... )

So, the vote on extending the 2001/2003 tax cuts for the bottom 98% is being tabled until after the election ( Read more... )

Matthews opened the special midnight live "Hardball" by talking about how O'Donnell's win in Delaware over Rep. Mike Castle for the GOP Senate nomination was evidence of the extreme anger against the president. In the immortal words of John McLaughlin, "WRONG ( Read more... )

I've been growing increasingly frustrated with the manufactured controversy of the Not-at-Ground Zero Not-Really-a-Mosque. But the right-wing nutjobs continually tell half-truths or outright lies about the Park51 community center project. Back in the late spring when the permitting process began there was no controversy over this. Then some of ( Read more... )

Michele Bachman, self-appointed queen of the Tea Party, has come out against Net Neutrality ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. Press Secretary,

I know you dismissed the progressive left yesterday. I know that you trotted your deputy out today to take the flak. And to say that we, the people who won you the nomination, and built the momentum for your electoral victory, are not representative of the voters on the left. Sir, we ARE the voters on the left ( Read more... )

Okay, normally I can't stand Chris Matthews because he seems to think he knows more than he does, and he has a holier-than-thou attitude about some individuals. But this is just a beautiful dismantling of Alabama Republican Teabagger douchenozzle Rick Barber ( Read more... )

...or not.

Really, are you saying that the anger over here with regards to what your corporation is doing to our environment (and it could be pretty catastrophic if a tropical system comes through the Gulf, sucks up oil droplets due to the dispersants making it lighter and easier to be sucked into the atmosphere, and drops it all over the ( Read more... )