Help Reverse Susan G. Komen’s Decision About Funding Planned Parenthood
Backstory on this issue Progressives MUST push back against this kind of political tampering or the Right wing will learn to apply it wherever they can. Please take a few minutes and help to reverse...
View ArticleGoodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren went viral, drawing over a million unique views on Truthout, whose reporter, Jason Leopold has widely documented ethical...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Right-Wing Identification Unpacked
Note: This article, by Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren wrote a piece in 2011 called “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult,” went viral,...
View ArticleBREAKING: Rush Limbaugh Charged With Womanslaughter!
See important update at the end. Forgive my link-baited title, but it was just as contrived, gamed, and inaccurate as this one from Paul Farhi in today’s Washington Post: Limbaugh sees heat over...
View ArticleHow the War on Women is Unlike the War On Caterpillars
My friend Krystal Ball is getting really aggressive about taking on Republican douchebaggery. She wanted to get this out right away, so she asked me to post it here. Feel free to copy and distribute...
View ArticleThose loud and funny liberals “ruining America.” Responses to a NY Times...
This morning, I tweeted this disturbing and sometimes insightful, but ultimately maddening, guilt-ridden sanctimony dressed up as constructive criticism in op-ed by Steve Almond in the NYTimes....
View ArticleThe National Bloggers Club and their Super PAC Friends. Oh, What A Mangled...
In case you missed it, Matt Osborne has blown the remaining testicles clear off the National Blogger's Club over at Crooks & Liars. Whatever has been raining down in Wingnutville all week, it sure...
View ArticleThree Views On The Crazy: Our Republican Party Problem
Here are three articles I've ready in the past 24 hours that each sum up our "Republican Party Problem" in differents ways. The first and last are brief. The one in the middle is deeper, but a crucial...
View ArticleConservative Southern Values: America’s Ticket Back to the 18th Century and...
I have just read for the fourth time, Sara Robinson's important 2012 essay entitled, "Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule America" It's...
View ArticleThe Simplest Debunker Of Ayn Rand Yet
So, this morning, I tweeted the following quip: FYI, I'm changing my name to John Galt and running for Congress in a Republican district http://t.co/pMcLWA4Txg — Shoq (@Shoq) June 3, 2014 Immediately...
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