Two Rallies One Mission
Some people seem to think that the twin rallies (albeit one good and one evil) Stewart and Colbert are holding are over the top. Critics claim that they are making a mockery of the system or are simply...
View ArticleA Murkowski Miracle
It looks like the incumbent Senatorial candidate form Alaska, Murkowski, has won the election there AS A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE. This is unprecedented, because the whole point of our “democracy” is that...
View ArticleGlenn Beck Is A Genius
Fact: Glenn Beck is a brilliant political strategist. We might all hate Beck, just like we hated Goebbels, and Lenin, and Mao, but we still had to admit they sure knew how to speak, and how to game...
View ArticleWhy Nukes?
Jonathan Schell asks this question in “Reaching Zero” (in the latest issue of The Nation). What I wonder is why not nukes? The A-bomb has such a terrifying potential; why aren’t people more afraid of...
View ArticleHitting the target, missing the point
I want to say something about the Giffords shooting that so far no one else has said, least of all Democrats. It wasn’t, as many left wing pundits have been quick to cry, the Republicans’ fault. It...
View ArticleCoronership: America’s strangest elected office
Almost no one questions the reasoning behind electing the President of the United States, barring the occasional person who thinks
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