So Obama said in his convention speech, "We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty, that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes." (The "we" in this instance being the United States ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot of old New Yorkers lately, just so I can finally recycle them. When my lovely wife moved in a couple years ago I finally cleared out all the ones from the previous century, but that still leaves some stacks to go through ( Read more... )

OK, in both of these cases I have my own strong feelings about the issues at stake, but I'd just like to raise two points of order about things in the news that seem crazy to me.

Point of Order #1: Opponents of same-sex marriage are asking the court to delay granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in anticipation of a proposition that may ( Read more... )

This is far and away the best take I've heard yet on the Clinton campaign's minimal reaction to Geraldine Ferraro saying that Obama would naver have come this far if he was white. I was actually crying a little bit by the end of this commentary ( Read more... )

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There was a little conversation this morning about how reasoned discussion of the issues don't really get you very far in electoral politics. You need to appeal to the public's emotions. We know this ( Read more... )

the verdict is in:

cheney's fall guy, scooter libby -- guilty as fuck.

from the sfgate culture blog:

documentarian robert greenwald (wal-mart: the high cost of low price, outfoxed, uncovered, unprecedented, unconstitutional) documents republican presidential hopeful john mccain's flip-flops in john mccain vs. john mccain:

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shamelessly pilfered from earle_gorgo

yeah, i know most of the polls have closed by now. you got lucky this time, mazurkafuzerkers.