There’s a scene about halfway the movie Pleasantville where William H. Macy comes stumbling into the local bowling alley soaking wet, shell-shocked and sporting a thousand mile stare that’s a few shades shy of catatonic. All of the other guys… Read More ›
GOP
Ruthless, Heartless & Running for Office
The names are familiar to all of us who spent our childhoods delivering flying elbows from the top turnbuckles of our living room couches and putting our friends in figure four leg locks. We spent many a Saturday morning and… Read More ›
50 Shades of Mitt
To call Mitt Romney a lemon of a presidential candidate would be an insult to lemons. When the Republican Party began the arduous process of numbing themselves to the reality that Mitt Romney was their last, best hope for The… Read More ›
Corporations Are People Too…Really, Really Rich People
I wrote this piece back in January on my old blog, A Night In The Box, and thought it would be appropriate to recycle in anticipation of the upcoming RNC corporate orgy. ——————————- For all of his bumbling, incompetent magnificence,… Read More ›
Ain’t No Party Like a Third Party
“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America… Read More ›
Same-Sex Marriage: Conservative Edition
On paper, Paul Singer sounds like every other obscenely wealthy conservative voice in the United States. His resume reads like ½ of the New York Times obituaries ever written: Born in metro NYC he received his J.D. From Harvard Law,… Read More ›
The President “Evolves” Just in Time: Same-Sex Marriage and The Fight for Equality
By Drew Gibson To hear President Obama and his cabinet speak of his “evolving” stance regarding gay marriage, one could be forgiven for assuming that the President was speaking of his own personal views towards the issue. Yet, in a… Read More ›