Category: people

to the victor the spoils (of the GWOT): And of course if I were Barack Obama it’s very possible that I wouldn’t think giving the executive branch un...

Is it possible to send both a contribution and a rebuke all at once? What Barack Obama did here was wrong and destructive. He’s supporting a bill that is ...

I’m so naive, it never occurred to me that people did this in real life: There are reports from very reliable sources that Hoyer, after engineering this &...

We would never permit a network to physically beat people in order to report on the beatings as sensational news. The body politic is another story. Frank Rich:...

World tips Hollywood on its axis: The studios may be Hollywood-based, but their conglom parents are thinking globally, which affects every business and creative...

glenn greenwald: Just in the first three months of 2008, recent lobbyist disclosure statements reveal that AT&T spent $5.2 million in lobbyist fees (puttin...

Catastrophes are like a political x-ray machine. They reveal the true condition of civic institutions. Following the earthquake in Sichuan, China: Among the dev...

Military columnist Joe Galloway as quoted by Glenn Greenwald: …Marine Gen. Paul Van Riper had walked out of an Iran scenario war game where he was command...

Douchebag: The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it’s by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they shoul...

Two for two: Our elections are dominated by the same tired personality script, trotted out over and over and over. Democrats and liberals — no matter how ...

Glenn Greenwald: But beyond just that, there is something deeply misleading — disturbingly self-justifying — about the stampede to depict John Yoo a...

Today, I have enjoyed the travelogues of: Dorothy Gambrell, artist, on her blog and Flickr stream. and Craig Robinson, artist, on his blog.

1. doctor, heal thyself: I just heard Bush give one of his officious lectures about democracy with the news that Castro is stepping down. He said that he expect...

Our new rehearsal space is opposite one of the main Church of Scientology buildings on Hollywood Boulevard. Parking is very difficult in this area, as many of t...

The People vs. the Profiteers via Digby: The trailer, unit number R-89, had been lying idle for two weeks, Conyers says, in temperatures that daily reached 120 ...

Sylvia Poggioli’s latest series on NPR, Exploring the Status of Muslim Women in Europe, is excellent. One of the best reports I’ve come across on im...

The Chicago Reader quoted and paraphrased: From Adlai Stevenson to John Kerry, high-minded liberals have acted as if they were blind to the root feelings that f...

A few times now, on television mostly but once on the local NPR station, KPCC, I’ve caught breathless promos for “special reports” on race, ge...