Maybe there's something wrong with me. I am not enthused about the coming election. I hope Obama wins, but only because I have had enough of the Republicans and their wistful, "wish it were 1952 again" attitudes, and the ideological leech they've been carrying around since 1980 that wants to…
Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City
This is a YouTube complilation based on a speech made from the 1976 movie Network. This tube is the gospel . . . Television is a god-damned amusement park . . . you're never going to get any truth from us . . . Turn off your TV. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIq46PYxveg&NR=1[/youtube] Related…
Here's one example. Here's what Michelle Goldberg, writing for the UK Guardian, has to say about Sarah Palin: Evidently, Palin's pre-debate handlers judged her incapable of speaking on a fairly wide range of subjects, and so instructed to her to simply disregard questions that did not invite memorised talking points…
We can label our attempts to stop politically motivated violence in a variety of ways. We could use the law enforcement metaphor or we could use the social epidemic metaphor. The Bush administration, however, has consciously chosen to invoke the metaphor of "war." An article in the current edition of…