This is pretty amazing.

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I wonder if a tweet where I admit how much I like Captain Beefheart will make the followers skyrocket even more! http://t.co/1yqlwYAless than a [...]

Giving ‘Reagan Democrats’ new meaning
I continue to find this fascinating because of the striking disconnect between Republicans’ principles and their understanding of history. On the one hand, Republicans have a religious-like reverence for “Ronaldus Magnus”; on the other, they have no use for his approach to governance.
It’s comparable to evangelical [...]

I was listening to an interview with Chris Hedges on KPFK and he takes the Democratic mainstream to task more than the Tea Party right. I have to agree with him – the Tea Party frames the debate all the way to the right and then the Democratic party meets them in the middle: [...]

Dammit, not looking forward to this guy entering the presidential race. Palin is a circus, but Rick Perry might fool some people.
Gov. Rick Perry has proclaimed Saturday, Aug. 6th, as a Day of Prayer and Fasting for our Nation to seek God’s guidance and wisdom in addressing the challenges that face our [...]

Andrew Sullivan writes:
So a man who has favored a wealth tax and universal healthcare rockets to the top of the Tea Party’s list of favorite candidates:
Trump is the top choice of likely primary voters who are Tea Party members with 22% support, compared to 16% support among non-members. Romney is the [...]

But wait, it is the Onion. But it’s not the Onion:
Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People
BELMONT, MA—Though Mitt Romney is considered to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the national spotlight has forced him to repeatedly confront a major skeleton in his political closet: that [...]

I caught this on NPR the other day and found it really disturbing and suspect.  Normally, I like Frontline, but the tenor of this piece is fucked:
WikiLeaks Suspect Manning: A Troubled Home Life
“Is he patriotic?  Is he patriotic?” the reporter asks over and over again about Bradley Manning, as if releasing documents about war crimes [...]

Russ Feingold:
I don’t know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century. The incredible power these institutions now have over the average person is just overwhelming: the way they can [...]

Rachel Maddow really lays out how stupid – and impossible – the idea is that the second amendment ensures that the citizens can stop “tyranny.”  Given that the government has chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, and tanks – civilians will lose the battle, no matter how many semi-automatics they have.  It would make more sense to [...]

Ted Rall discusses the Anti-American Manifesto and the need for revolution.

This puts the Maddow/John Stewart interview into a different context.  On the one hand, John Stewart’s call for rhetorical moderation would cite the above as hyperbole.  But not entirely: because the left/right divide in the media means that the Tea Party and the left can [...]