All of the candidates are for sale, according to the August 21, 2008 edition of Rolling Stone. The article, by Matt Taibbi, is entitled: "Candidates for Sale: What do Obama and McCain have in common? The same big donors, who will expect to have their way no matter who wins."…
Just when we thought it was a good time to buy one of those magnificent, Soviet-era dachas in Georgia, this happens. We're getting the updates on the most spectacular round of this event, but the fact is this has been brewing since the break up of the Soviet Union. Georgia…
By now, everyone knows of Russia's military invasion of Georgia. Seeing the Straw in the Eye of Others Dario Castillejos, Dario La Crisis Bush Moral High Ground Paul Zanetti, Australia [Admin note: All Cartoons are being published at DI with full permission by Cagle Cartoons]
In the interests of discussion concerning the election and some ideas that get bandied about here from time to time, I thought I’d post one of my very favorite quotes. This comes from a wonderful book about the Heroic Myths of the Greeks, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by…
In the NYT, Paul Krugman sums up the substance of modern Republicans: Know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The…