This is weird on so many levels.

The whole Obama birther issue is a fascinating look at conspiracy theory unfolding in real time. One of the major refrains about UFOs is people say, “Why don’t they just land on the White House lawn?” I think the reaction to Obama’s birth certificate is a good example of how there is no [...]

While Obama is going to extend tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulate polluters (and many other things), it’s pretty amazing to revisit Obama from the campaign. I was sucked in by the rhetoric as much as anyone – after the nightmare of the Bush presidency, we finally had this generation’s Kennedy. But when [...]

Dispatches from the Glenn Beck rally. Pretty riveting:

Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald (battle of the Glenns) has this very good post about Obama losing the populist mantle:
That crisis presented a huge opportunity for Obama and the Democrats to bring about real change in Washington — the central promise of his campaign — by capitalizing on (and [...]

Last week on Facebook, Charles Shaw wrote this:
[I'm] very disturbed to see that so many people have been taken in by Alex Jones and cannot see that he’s, at best, an unstable megalomaniac who’s low on facts and high on fear-mongering, and worse, he fits to a tee the description of a [...]

Recently watched three documentaries that paint a pretty alarming picture of the state of things. But also bring to mind the activism on the right against financial regulation, environmental regulation, or changing tactics in the War on Terror. Maybe if tea baggers watched these documentaries, they’d realize the hole that bad government has [...]

Sort of sad to see some former idealism crushed.  I had a lot of hope for Obama.  Tragically, Alex Jones has been proven right:

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He’s also wrong most of the time.

It’s tempting to believe that the Gulf spill, like so many disasters inherited by Obama, was the fault of the Texas oilman who preceded him in office. But, though George W. Bush paved the way for the catastrophe, it was Obama who gave BP the green light to drill. “Bush owns eight years of the [...]

Today’s peaceful news of the day: Experiments in Torture: Evidence of Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program:
In one gruesome set of experiments, at least 25 detainees were submitted to both individual and combined use of the different “enhanced interrogation” techniques developed by the CIA through reverse-engineering of [...]

Fuck her:

You can argue (if you like) that Global Warming is not man made, or it can’t be stopped, but you cannot argue that inclement weather is not a national security issue. Suppose another 9-11 happened during another Katrina. Emergency resources would be cut in half. It’s very much a national security [...]