It’s been curious, in the most delightful way possible, to watch the Republican party rise from the ashes of its last two defeats carried on wings of insular delusion into the ether of pure crazy. This has been happening for some time, of course, but under the careful eye of Karl Rove and Tom DeLay, [...]
Somewhere along the way, the television bobbleheads who are technically supposed to be reporting the “news” gave up entirely on that worthy endeavor in favor of talking about their favorite subject… themselves. Oh, they often elaborately pay faux homage to “real Americans,” meaning those reliably hypothetical wretched souls who don’t happen to rake in millions [...]
UPDATE BELOW: It seems that the only thing that is too indecent and/or inappropriate to be uttered in public discourse these days is, well, the truth. You see, the media have bet all their chips on lies from sea to shining sea ever since Al Gore “invented the internet,” and truth today in the media, [...]
The right has fallen into something of a rut of late; so deliriously successful have they been with their strategy of dramatically doing and saying the most outrageous and vile things they can think of and then even more dramatically wailing, fainting, and demanding sympathy (and of course revenge) over the entirely predictable reaction, that [...]
Well, the CIA’s IG report on torture was released today, mostly to yawns. So what if we threatened to kill a detainee’s children? Who cares if we said we would sexually assault a detainee’s mother, in front of him, natch… What’s the big deal about staging mock executions, since it appears that we also had [...]
Who says there’s no bipartisanship in Washington? When it comes to endorsing our culture of violence, revenge, and punishment, we’re essentially a one-party state. This was vividly on display with the release of the dying Lockerbie bomber by those commies over in Scotland, when the networks fell all over themselves to find “grieving” family members [...]
When Air America announced its intention to become the lone liberal voice in talk radio, to begin to counter the utter dominance of that medium by the Right, way back in 2003, it was music to my ears. Working often alone, building things and tearing them down, not necessarily in that order, some aural stimulation [...]
I got home today, and as I usually do, popped into Glenn Greenwald at Salon, to see if he’d gotten all Greenwaldian and put up another post while I was at work, knowing that if he hadn’t, the letters would have poured in since 6:00am and it could take a whole bottle of something to [...]
It’s always tempting and often dishearteningly accurate to look around, fancy-pants liberal elitist that I am, and notice that a huge number of Americans are stupid. Worse, they’re proud of it. Every day is Dumb Pride day, from sea to shining sea. And dumbness is celebrated, even exalted, in the media as though it were [...]
For some reason, a lot of Americans, and virtually all of our media, have unaccountably come to the conclusion that running around bombing places willy-nilly is the greatest thing since even before sliced bread; capable of remaking the world to our whims, spreading “freedom,” and when that kind of namby-pamby stuff gets tired, at least [...]