In my workplace, staffed by adorable lily-white conservative people who have absolutely no clue whatsoever about what it’s like to be poor, much less a discriminated-against minority, one of the most-loved sports is what I call Poor People Bashing. According to the Wonder Bread Crew, the melt-down of the financial markets is due almost entirely to two things: 1. Poor […]

Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven is an unapologetic Detroit lover. That’s no big surprise, I suppose, given that he works for the Detroit Free Press. Albom is also known for his plain talk and his editorial piece this past Sunday, “If I had the floor at the auto rescue talks“, […]

No, not Newt Gingrich. (Newt? Really? Your name is Newt?) No, it’s his sister, Candace. She’s a lesbian that’s been actively involved in LGBT issues as part of the Human Rights Coalition for quite awhile. She has just published an open letter to her brother Newt (dude, Newt?) on the Huffington post and it’s impressive. Dear Newt, I recently had […]

Not surprisingly, it’s written by The Onion: Everybody has this image of “crazy Christians” based on what they hear in the media, but it’s just not true. Most Christians are normal, decent folks. We don’t all blindly follow a bunch of outdated biblical tenets or go all fanatical about every bit of dogma. What I’m trying to say is, don’t […]

During the week after the election, I attended a number of “victory parties” to celebrate our achievement. Mostly they were organized by people we had spent the previous three months campaigning with. Something about canvassing and phone banking and watch debates together really bonded us and we wanted to get together and have some fun that didn’t involve work! My […]

I am so ambivalent about the entire discussion surrounding the Big Three auto companies asking for a $25 billion bailout. Truly ambivalent. First of all, I have been a loud and frequent critic of these dinosaurs of the business world. They have relentlessly pumped out gas-guzzling Humscalade after oil-gulping SubdivisionBlazer with absolutely no regard for either the environmental destruction they […]

I am a fairly frequent reader of David Byrne’s journal/blog. He’s been pretty excited and upbeat and heartened by Barack Obama’s victory in the presidential election. As someone who travels the whole world over, I think his perspectives on the impact of this election on both the United States of America and on the world as a whole are worth […]

Funniest damn thing on the innernets right now, no kidding: Joe the Plumber – SecureOurDream.com I’m pretty sure he bought his webpage at Wallmart. Just so we’re all straight: His name isn’t Joe. He’s not a licensed plumber. And he doesn’t always pay his taxes. Is he an “average Joe”? Maybe. Should you pay to read his blog or buy […]

Political junkie, that is. I never claimed otherwise. I’ve even infected my wife. You should have seen us during the last weeks of the election, sitting in the living room with our laptops blazing, checking out polls at Pollster, Gallup, 538.com, & Electoral-Vote.com, and reading and writing for the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos and Bob Cesca’s Goddam Awesome […]

Home sick from work today having finally succumbed to a nasty cold. So here I am, in my jammies, checking the innernets for schtuff, and I find that Sarah Palin thinks that most of the unflattering things that were said about her came from bloggers “sitting in their parents’ basement, wearing their pajamas”. Then I watched this little tidbit that […]

Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats Just minutes after their party’s longstanding losing tradition lay in tatters on the ground, millions of shell-shocked Democrats stared at their television screens in disbelief, asking themselves what went right. For Democrats, who have become accustomed to their party blowing an election even when it seemed like a sure thing, Tuesday night’s results were […]