(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Why Fox News Loves the (Other) N-Word Fox news undermines the distinction between propaganda & news by degrading the language, deepening ignorance & disfiguring just about every standard which defines what was once known as Journalism. An over-riding result is the acceleration of our decent into oligarchy.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 8, 2010
America: The Incredible Shrinking Nation Republicans & submissive Democrats are shrinking America into a gated community for the bad guys, betraying the history & egalitarian values of our democracy.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 2, 2010
Hope for Esperanza in 2010 All it takes is one Esperanza to put the lie to the Glenn Becks, the Lou Dobbs, and other purveyors of bigotry and racism who would build a barricade of hate between the hopes of new arrivals and the opportunities of this country.

SHARE        Monday, March 9, 2009
"Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do" Rihanna, Bush, Me and The Culture of Abuse I was driving back from a weekend visit to my infant twin grand-daughters yesterday when I played a CD of one of my favorite old Bessie Smith standards, "Ain't nobody's business if I do."

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 25, 2009
Our own Sarah Palin - Kirsten Gillibrand At a time when our nation needs more progressives and fewer right wing hacks, Governor Paterson of New York lays an egg in appointing blue dog Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand to the vacant Senate seat. What a bold move Gov.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 3, 2008
A GODLESS VOTER FOR LIDDY DOLE In this ad Ms. Dole or her surrogate pretended that Ms. Hagan gave a shout out "There is no God." Miss Hagan, a former Sunday school teacher and Presbyterian in good standing naturally took umbrage at Ms. Dole's ad.

(9 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 10, 2008
The dangerous McCain/Palin character assassination of Obama The last best hope of McCain's campaign is to appeal to the racism that still lives on in this country. This isn't playing hardball, its hate-ball. The fascist playbook begins by demonizing your opponent as "the other" – or "that one" or "the friend of the terrorist." In Hitler's case it was the Jews (read elite, or cosmopolitans), the Gypsies and the Socialists who were demonized and then victimized by this rhetoric...

SHARE        Saturday, September 27, 2008
McCain; Deregulatin Reality or Campaign by Anecdote my response to Friday night's debate

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sister Sarah And The Celebration Of Ignorance How Sarah Palin's candidacy exploits the anti-intellectual strain in America.