Comrade Bush Nationalizes Financial Sector

Good afternoon, glorious working people of the United Socialist Republic of America.
That’s right, the party of “small government”, the party that calls us liberals “socialists”, the party that hates the idea of public schools, libraries, police, fire fighters, and will stop at nothing to prevent universal medical care will leave the White House in January [...]

When Things Go Bad, Conservatives Blame Minorities

More conservative racism
But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street’s most revered institutions.
This is nothing more than thinly veiled bigotry. If its [...]

I Don’t Want a Bi-Partisan Candidate

At a VoteVets function in Denver during convention week, I had a conversation with Matt Stoller (who I also agree with regarding this being to weird to not be planned) about partisanship and polarization. We agreed that these are good things.
I’m a democrat. I’m a progressive. And I’m not too afraid of the [...]

A Scholarly Approach to the Culture Wars

Care to guess the why it is difficult to write a college research paper deconstructing the ideas of the conservative culture war? None of the seminal works on the subject (O’Reilly, Hanity, etc.) have the legitimacy to be included in a University library. I have one Buchanan book from 1988. This is frustrating.

Making My Job Easy

Blogging isn’t easy. Fellow bloggers, I’m sure you agree. For those of you who don’t agree let me explain. Unless you are one of the few who are lucky enough to do this for a living, we all have other lives. I have a wife, a toddler and attend school full time [...]

Furthermore…

Sarah Palin is anti-enlightenment.