The Thinker--or Just Sitting Around?

I've wondered about Rodin's famous sculpture. Is he engaged in deep thought or sitting around wasting time? And why isn't he wearing pants? I ask the same of myself. Here we comment on well, mostly politics. Or we may just sit! If you like it, tell a friend. If not, tell us, but please read the GROUND RULES before you do.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Bob Herbert's Last Column For The New York Times

This is the second high profile defection from the New York Times in the span of a few weeks. First it was Frank Rich. And now, Bob Herbert....

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Newt’s “I was For It Before I Was Against It” Moment On Libya

Rachel does this one best. Even on her show, which is scrupulously wedded to the facts and her “did-I-get-all-this-right” (“because I want ...

Even The Wingnuts Don't Want Any Part of This Hustler ...

I mean, it's not like they don't have the money: Where are the Koch brothers when one of their own is i n dire need of their financ...

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Preventing Genocide = A Just War

Of the many rationales criticizing our intervention in Libya, none adequately addresses the task at hand, to prevent Khaddafi from committin...

Radiation From Japan Reaches Our Shores. YAY!

Tell me I'm wrong, but it seems the consensus from "experts" about radiation from Japan reaching our shores is that it would b...

Monday, March 21, 2011

Tea Party Remedial Education: This Is What Democracy Looks Like!

This is one more object lesson in DEMOCRACY for those pasty-white sclerotic beached whales known as the Teabaggers, bussed in from out of st...

Consider NOT Donating A Friggin' Penny To PBS!

The other day I was watching a NOVA documentary on the mating habits of wingnuts (kidding, but it might as well be true) crash of that Air ...

West's Intervention in Libya Creates Strange Bedfellows

How else could one get Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball and celebrated Dean of the Beltway media, aka, the Idiot Punditocracy, N...

Friday, March 18, 2011

The Obama Doctrine

President Obama established today what is possibly the only legitimate use of UN-sanctioned military force: Intervening in an internecine co...

Dr. Michio Kaku Raises Entombment Option on Larry-O's Show

Lawrence O'Donnell, who's been on fire ever since Stephanie Miller promised him her sacred honor (coincidence?), had the iconoclasti...

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Musical Interlude: Beautiful Music to Soothe Anxieties in Anxious Times

Liza Veiga is a Portuguese soprano singer. This is the video for "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" a legendary composition of Procol Harum....

IRRADIATED AMERICA: No Need For Concern?

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, the MSNBC health "expert" criticized Americans for our "narcissism" concerning the possible health ...

Meanwhile, In Libya ...

A genocide looms as Khaddafi's forces rally and President Obama dithers. The Libyan insurgents have no chance against Khaddafi's m...

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

I Think I Figured Out What's The Matter With President Obama ...

First, what do you call that sign in the background, considering the President's in the nuclear waste TANK with the nuclear power indust...

MSNBC LIES About Three Mile Island Health Effects

First it was Cenk Uygur, and today a special report on MSNBC makes the FALSE CLAIM that there were no "deaths or long-term health effec...

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Notes From The Fringe: Maybe A Conspiracy Theory? NOT!

Yesterday on Hardball Chris Matthews tried painting an ideological distinction between our response to the nuclear crisis in Japan versus th...

Notes From The Fringe: More FREAK OUT News (Because We Can't Rely On The MSM)

Want to see how JAPAN SYNDROME nuclear radiation reaches our shores? Check out this link for the Jet Stream path , i.e. the ATMOSPHERIC EXPR...

Monday, March 14, 2011

Notes From The Fringe: Dr. Michio Kaku Says It's OK To FREAK OUT

But he didn't say it on American TV. NATURALLY. Here's my layman's take: Don't believe a WORD the Japanese authorities say...

Question Regarding Safety of Nuclear Plants In The U.S.

The disaster in Japan raised questions and concerns about the safety of U.S. plants; parallel concerns and lessons that may apply here; i.e....

What Separates Wingnuts From The Rest of Us

Answer: A lack of common decency and empathy. It's really true. Larry Kudlow, a former cokehead and right wing business guru, pontifica...

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