Submitted without further comment. ...for those who have already had their fill of mangos for the day, the cartoon in question portrays various Democratic women as literal bitches being held on a leash by a shiny Barack Obama (who, in fairness, is not wearing a...
Month: March 2012
Some random Friday linkage: I like Max Fisher; I have nothing against his family. He stands between me and Eli Lake, and that means he's gonna get paved over. Luck.
I'm not really inclined to defend Rutherford B. Hayes. But I'm annoyed that Obama repeated the stupid apocryphal tale about Hayes rejecting the telephone. This isn't because I care all.
Rick Perlstein suggests not in an excellent essay placing today's wingnuts in context. A choice passage: Over fifteen years of studying the American right professionally — especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s — I have...
I have to suggest a modification to Ed Kilgore's point here. Breitbart isn't exactly the right's equivalent to Alinsky on the left, since both figures are cited pretty much exclusively.
One thing about the War on Women is that Republicans seems to feel that it entitles them to not only lie a lot but to embed these lies in legislative.
In convenient chart form!
I've been exposed. A comment on my Alternet piece on vibrators: Erik Loomis is a professor of leftist indoctrination, mischaracterized positions, unproven assumptions and leftist propaganda. Late night comedians do.
Guernica is publishing a Jose Saramago short story in two parts. Here is the first. There's not much left unpublished from the great writer I presume. This story is part.
I was going to vote for Obama until this happened: Verona, PA - While campaigning in Puerto Rico, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum received the endorsement former major league baseball player Carlos Baerga. "I support Rick because he is a Christian and has fought for...
As someone who is marginally obsessive about reading the New York Times obituaries, and not only to track my Death List, I found this discussion of sexism within the NYT.
Corey Robin has a very important post placing the rise of anti-birth control legislation within the context of the right to privacy and corporate control over our bodies and lives..