Please.
I haven’t written about politics on this blog in a fairly long time. There’s a reason for that. All it accomplishes is to piss off some readers who come here for the sports, and confirm all the beliefs of those who do come here for my liberal, commie-loving, viewpoints.
But mostly I haven’t written about politics [...]
I usually try not to write posts that do little more than point you to better things that other people have written. But despite my preambles, this is essentially one of those posts.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report exploring Right-wing extremism in America. Specifically, the report mentioned disgruntled [...]
There are plenty of arguments one could make both for and against government offering a bailout to newspapers.
And the arguments, at least in America, would probably fall on deaf ears, as the White House seems to have already made up its mind:
With the Boston Globe just the latest big-city newspaper teetering on the edge of [...]
Soon we will return to juvenile rants about why the Detroit Red Wings are God’s gift to hockey. And whooo boy, they sure look the part these days.
It is, after all, springtime, and this is what we do every Spring.
But first, I read something today that helped clarify an idea I’d been wrestling with — [...]
You know what? If Barack Obama honestly believes this, then he’s finished. Done. Cooked. Hopeless. Expired.
And in some of his strongest language yet, Obama suggested that, in its new ad, the McCain-Palin ticket was simply trying to “make stuff up.”
“You can’t just recreate yourself,” said the Democratic nominee. “You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American [...]
I’m not going to be snarky, angry, disgusted, repulsed, horrified, sarcastic, wryly amused or even righteously indignant about the American election today.
It’s more effective (and so much fun!) to simply dig through massive amounts of news stories, blogs and political analysis in order to find a bunch of quotes that have gone public in the [...]