Maureen Dowd Is A Total Tool
Given, that is obvious to anybody that has read her column, which thankful I don't do since we have the wonderful Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up here each day. But somehow I caught her column today....
View ArticleHow Beck rewrites U.S. history -- and how to fight back
Cross-posted at Attytood.As I prepare to cover this weekend's Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally in D.C.and for the official launch of my book The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and...
View ArticleObama, Cameron, & Sarkozy Tie the Libya Mission to Regime Change
The three leaders have penned an war-hawking op-ed that has an especially heavy dose of the kind of double-speaking horse-hockey inherent to the genre.
View ArticleWhat do the billionaires think?
In this Op-Ed in the New York Times, Warren Buffett (whose net work is around $50 billion) admitted to paying under $7 million in taxes last year (17.4% of his annual income). This percentage is lower...
View ArticleHelp! Amplify a progressive voice in red-state TN
This has not been a good year for progressive causes in Tennessee.Case in point: After Nashville passed a ground-breaking city ordinance that barred its contractors from discriminating against workers...
View ArticleAn Appeal To The Occupy Wall Street Movement
Anyone who has read Dr. King’s “Letters From The Birmingham Jail” must be as impressed and inspired as I am by this man’s quest for dignity and honor. His eloquence and mindfulness is unsurpassed by...
View ArticlePants Ablaze
This was published as an op-ed in the February 17, 2012 edition of the Conway Daily Sun newspaper, in Conway, NH.
View ArticleMy Reply to NYPD Stop & Frisk-endorsing NYC Columnist
New York City still has a number of daily newspapers, but only one borough has a dedicated daily as far as I know. The Staten Island Advance has been publishing for 125 years, and has a rep for solid...
View ArticleFoxNews Blog: Why Democrats are abandoning Obama
Actually, the full title is "Why Democrats, including me, are abandoning Obama." And it's right over here: http://www.foxnews.com/...It appears that something has changed Rob Taub's sentiments. He...
View Article4 Must-Watch Multimedia Political Ads
Years ago I departed from the Hollywood scene to work on something called "multimedia" with my friends at Apple. This is what the dream was all about: The day that average people could use professional...
View ArticleSubmission for Op-Ed on Norquist: seeking your suggestions, criticisms, tweaks?
Today, the Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta GA) ran an Op-Ed piece that was the typical pure drivel about Republicans having to obey the Norquist Pledge, and how Boner was sticking to his guns...
View ArticleMy Reply to Max Boot's NYT Op-Ed
Thursday's New York Times features an Op-Ed piece by neo-con and noted "thinker" Max Boot -- a lengthy screed so filled with egregious nonsense that I could not refrain from responding to it point by...
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Eclectablog op-ed about Netroots Nation '14 in the Detroit News
There are two sides to this storyEarlier this month, the Detroit News printed an op-ed from an anti-union corporatist group known as the Franklin Center. This Koch brothers' funded group is nothing...
View ArticleHe's Alive or Rod Serling's Prescience
EDIT: On January 14, 1963, the day of George Wallace's infamous "segregation now, segregation forever" speech, CBS aired an episode of the Twilight Zone called He's Alive. It starred a young Dennis...
View ArticleShut Up And Listen To Patterson Hood
Apologies for the title, but I did want to be catchy. Not to interrupt the latest struggle of "Obama and Edwards, who is Great? And who is Greatest?", but a great man just released a CD and said some...
View ArticleMove Over Pat Robertson, Your Hateful Rival Is Here
Move over Pat Robertson, Ann Hornaday is muscling in on your hateful and gruesome territory of blaming disastrous events on human behavior or comedic spoofs (or, according to P.R., that which a god...
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Seattle's Rent Control Debate Rages As Bernie Sanders Visits City
(Photo by Mark Taylor-Canfield) A recent Seattle Town Hall debate became controversial when members of the audience interrupted pro-development speakers.
View ArticleFear and Loathing Refugees
The anti-Islamic fervor from politicians on social media this week sure has me feeling my white privilege. I mean, I was raised Catholic. I feel fortunate that Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee aren’t...
View ArticleThe Revolution Hasn’t Been Publicized
There is a battle waging for the heart and soul of the Democratic Party between corporate foot soldiers that keep the party funded and the progressive idealists who provide policy ideas based on the...
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The New Deal, the Dance, and the Devil
Nostalgia is the enemy of an informed electorate. I, myself, am guilty of romanticizing FDR’s New Deal as the golden age of public policy. Pardon my hubris, but I’m probably right or at least more...
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