I got this email from Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake. Please sign the petition if you haven't already. The more signatures we can get, the better. We need to let Congress…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44NCvNDLfc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Get ready to see this guy more and more is my guess. He taps right into the arguement that unpatriotic Americans love to hear. Every man for himself. I…
First we RISE: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ95FaapL58[/youtube] Herb Alpert-Rise Perhaps we then LISTEN: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF2vKBjmAkI[/youtube] Doobie Brothers-Listen to the Music (Quote from Robert Christgau: "You can lead a Doobie Brother to the recording studio, but you…
You know, maybe the President should create Death Panels, and FEMA concentration camps, and maybe we should deny Republicans health coverage and ration their healthcare. Maybe he should indoctrinate their…
Seattle is opening the country's first in-patient center for the treatment of internet addicition. The center, called ReSTART, is somewhat ironically located near Redmond, headquarters of Microsoft and a world…
Mike Mahaffie nails it. I took the liberty of running it through wordle to see what the top 75 words would be. Apparently, it's all about "School." So much for…
President Obama gave a speech in Cincinnati for Labor Day. He gives us a little preview of some of the things he may talk about in his Wednesday speech before…
How crazy is the current Republican Party? So crazy that they have now made Newt Freaking Gingrich look sane! Gingrich put up this Twitter post this afternoon, after the White…
David Neiwert is the author of The Eliminationists -- How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, a book I'm currently reading. If you've followed any of Neiwert's work at Orcinus or at Crooks and Liars, you know that his longtime project is reporting on the fringe right and increasingly he has been reporting on how the ideas and speech of these fringe groups gets mainstreamed.
Here is a copy of President Obama's speech for Tuesday. Scary stuff, I can see what all the outrage is about. Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School…