To the myopic abortion industrial complex on the right (that needs to keep birth control and safe sex information away from teens in order to protect their vacation homes and…
This was a slow week. With no special election relatively imminent (the next one is on September 12), and with national stories dominating our conversation this week, local stories fell…
This is an interesting Friday afternoon news item: Dick Armey -- lately infamous for his work promoting Freedomworks, the corporate-backed group astroturfing Town Halls this summer -- has quit his lobbyist job at DLA Piper,claiming to want to work full-time on the Freedomworks thing.
I have not been checking in much, but Cormier's summertime dispatches are supposed to be full of drunken semi-adult children exposing their new tats, like some kind of beer soaked…
LEAD STORY-The Financial Times: How the Oil Industry Plans to Do to Climate Change What the Insurance Companies Are Doing to Health Care...AND Who Its Delaware Connection Is! I. E.,…
The media isn't interested in health care policy because reporting about policy is hard. They are interested in the boxing match. The boxing match is easy. Republicans are not interested…
Scott P breaks it down: "If you try to tell an aggressive right-winger that although they might be loud, their views are in the minority, one of the first things…
Yesterday was a full day so I didn't get a chance to post much. Up today is Valerie Jarrett and an economic panel with Jon Corzine, Anna Burger, Kevin Drum…
The Canine Who Rubs Against You the Wrong Way is forced to admit it. El Somnambulo is a bleeping genius: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljrTtfJ9XY&feature=related[/youtube] Rufus Thomas- 'Walkin' the Dog' [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=humV6xB9ZhI[/youtube] KD Lang- 'Damned…