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The meaning(lessness?) of the Fort Hood shooting
James Fallows at the Atlantic thinks there are no lessons to be learned from the Fort Hood massacre: In the saturation coverage right after the events, the “expert”...
The Roots Ain’t Torture
So I’m at work, minding my own business, gettin my write on and I stumble across this post on ACLU’s Blog of Rights: Today, a group of musicians, including...
Top 10 newspaper front pages from Obama’s Nobel Prize win
One of my favorite things to do after major world events is head to Newseum the next day to check out the newspaper reactions from around the world. Here are the...
Exposing Beck, Limbaugh, and other racist Obama critics
I have to admit that Stephen Colbert’s right-wing pundit parody The Colbert Report doesn’t usually work for me. It’s kind of like a one-note joke that never...
I hate G-20 protesters
G-G-G-G-G-G-G-20! Good morning world. It’s Thursday September 24th, 2009. You’re probably sitting at work already. Me? I’m in my room…not...
Dope Black Maleness – Brendon Ayanbadejo and Murs
I present to you two dope examples of progressive, radical brothers. First up. Brendan Ayanbadejo Ayabadejo plays for the Ravens and just published a pro-gay...
Supreme Court should force Redskins to drop racist name, legacy
Last week, a group of Native American leaders asked the Supreme Court to rule that the Washington Redskins team name is too offensive to be protected by U.S. trademark...
Money and self-interest: Why the Democrats can’t get anything done
Last weekend, tigger500 wrote a great post about the sorry state of our politics, specifically why the Democratic Party can’t or won’t seem to do the things...
Obama calls Kanye West a “jackass”
This is incredible to me: ABC News reporter Terry Moran caused quite a commotion tonight on Twitter after writing the following: “Pres. Obama just called Kanye...
Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and conservative priorities
Just so we’re clear on conservative priorities… White man interrupts the President of the United States during a nationally-televised speech to Congress: not...
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