The Rally to Restore Sanity was bizarre. I don’t know what I was expecting, but it turned out to really just be a Colbert/Stewart live concert. But it was also a call for moderation, rather than sanity, and in fact being a moderate during these times is insane. While cable news amps up the most [...]

A very interesting piece talking about how religion and Ayn Randism are totally at odds with each other. A variant on What’s the Matter with Kansas – or why does the Republican base vote against its own self-interest? America’s working people are in desperate need of health, education and welfare, but they are also mostly [...]

Three stories which outline why the political climate is totally fucked. Glenn Beck’s Incendiary Angst Is Dangerously Close to Having a Body Count On his Monday radio show, Glenn Beck highlighted claims that before he started targeting a little-known, left-leaning organization called the Tides Foundation on his Fox News TV show, “nobody knew” what the [...]

Facts are simple and facts are straight Facts are lazy and facts are late Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around Facts are living turned inside out Facts are getting the best of them Facts are nothing on the face of [...]

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 put us [...]

Teabaggers, this is your Republican party. Helping this go viral because it so perfectly summarizes the priorities of the Republican party.