February 19, 2008 – 03:21 am
From Stanley Fish’s When Identity Politics Is Rational: “We should distinguish, I think, between two forms of identity politics. The first I have…named ‘tribal’; it is the politics based on who a candidate is rather than on what he or she believes or argues for…The second form of identity politics is what I call ‘interest’ [...]
February 18, 2008 – 12:51 pm
From Alternet’s Is a Liberal Renaissance in the Making?: “Your whole life teaches you that to be a progressive in America is to make Sisyphus look like a slacker. Hey, at least he got to the top of the mountain once in a while! Even if it was all for naught, that’s still a lot [...]
December 14, 2007 – 11:58 am
From Boston.com’s Without late-night jokes, presidential candidates get a pass: “As the Writers Guild of America’s strike enters its second month, this presidential race is the first in recent memory with no one on hand to reprocess the news for late-night comedy shtick.”
September 20, 2007 – 11:56 am
This will probably be gone by the time you click on it, thanks Comedy Central’s horde of copyright protectors, but you should check out Stephen Colbert laying the smack down on people like me. Good times. [UPDATE: If that doesn't work, you can try watching it through Comedy Central's crappy motherload player.]
September 10, 2007 – 11:22 am
From Physorg.com’s article, Homo politicus: brain function of liberals, conservatives differs: “Using electroencephalographs, which measure neuronal impulses, the researchers examined activity in a part of the brain — the anterior cingulate cortex — that is strongly linked with the self-regulatory process of conflict monitoring. The match-up was unmistakable: respondents who had described themselves as liberals [...]
August 27, 2007 – 11:55 am
I don’t trust the latest staff shakeups in the White House. First Karl Rove resigns, and now Gonzales. The President’s two fiercest defenders have both left the White House, and only two weeks apart. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been in favor of Gonzales leaving since he first stepped foot in the Attorney General’s office, [...]
August 16, 2007 – 11:15 am
From the Atlantic’s article, The Rove Presidency: “Rove has always cast himself not merely as a campaign manager but as someone with a mind for policy and for history’s deeper currents—as someone, in other words, with the wherewithal not just to exploit the political landscape but to reshape it. At the Christian Science Monitor lunch, [...]
An Excerpt from Al Gore’s New Book: The Assault on Reason: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions? The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the [...]
The Realignment of America:“It has become a commonplace to say that population has been flowing from the Snow Belt to the Sun Belt, from an industrially ailing East and Midwest to an economically vibrant West and South. But the actual picture of recent growth, as measured by the 2000 Census and the census estimates for [...]
Impeach Bush or Get Rid of the Impeachment Clause:“What is it about impeachment that has the Democratic Party leadership so frightened? Talking with members of Congress, one hears the same refrain: “I know Bush and Cheney have committed impeachable crimes, but impeachment is a bad idea.†The rationales offered are many, but all are either [...]
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