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Letters To Tuesday

Hi.  I am a large American Corporation.  You've probably seen me around, heard my name mentioned.  I am a construct of legal paperwork filed periodically with the appropriate federal, state, and local...

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Wonksday

Infighting, posturing, jockeying, disunity... Ideologues duking it out with pragmatists, both vying for control of the party.  You know, if I didn't know better, I'd swear you guys were Democrats.  I...

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Double Footnote, food for thought

"In the words of Peter Oborne, 'manipulative populism has been hugely successful in the short term for New Labour.  In the long term, it is catastrophic, since the glaring contradiction between public...

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Book Review

Social Capitalism, by Robert Corfe, is a multivolume treatise on redefining, and reinventing the Labour Party of Great Britain.  It is a point of view that I believe holds many ideas and lessons...

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Letters To Tuesday

Dear Teabaggers:I love you people.  You never cease to amuse me.But, even looking past all the obvious reasons to deride you and mock you, and generally get a good belly laugh from your overbloated...

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Wonksday

Everyone, mark these names and today's date, so you can be sure to track the development of this story.  Reps-elect Mike Kelly (R-PA), and Bobby Schilling (R-IL) have agreed in the public spotlight to...

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Thursday Rant part II

Let's give Glenn Beck what he wants.If he wants to make it all about George Soros vs. Rupert Murdoch, let's play and see where it leads.  Can we get a commitment for every moderate Dem through radical...

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Letters To Tuesday

Dear Rep. Todd Akin:     For fuck's sake!  Are you serious?  Really?  You're that goddamn stupid?  AND you're popular enough among a sector of the populace to win elected office?  You represent the...

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We The People

We The People of the United States of America...well, we may not actually be worth saving.  If this, this horror, this abomination of humanity is allowed, SANCTIONED by our own government, then perhaps...

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A Change Of Heart

I have found myself stunned at the fact that I have recently changed my position on a current issue.  The whole Wikileaks phenomenon.

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Tackling the ir-Elephant in the Room

Okay, I'll start. Social Security is the Sacred Cow of the Dems (and the AARP), the same way Defense is the Sacred Cow of the GOP.  The difference, if you do the numbers, is staggering.  Yes,...

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Science in the News

Stem Cells Cure HIV PatientAre you f*#king kidding me?!?!?And we don't have full funding and 100% backing for this research by all world governments???

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