Peddle to the Meddle.
Plausible deniability. It’s the way things get done. Not the pedestrian policy matters that churn through the 24 hour news cycle. It’s the events, causes and decisions that make those policies necessary. The things that seem random, inexplicable and, usually, cause us to shake our heads. Deniability is the grease our covert government uses to…
Festive, determined and unabashed. That’s the way it was backstage at Operation Ceasefire. It was a progressive starf’cker’s dream…Laura Flanders and Amy Goodman, Steve Earle and Joan Baez…but Laura has the best eyes. And that voice. Perchance to dream…. The backstage view showed the strength and commitment of those who oppose the continuing war in…
It was the perfect photo op. W, fresh off a month in Crawford ignoring Cindy and declining poll numbers, flew over the ravages of nature and suffering of his fellow Americans. But he was one simple descent from the clouds, a purposeful walk down the stairs from Air Force One and a helmeted helicopter ride…
It’s natural. It’s natural for us to mourn the loss of a once-great city like New Orleans. To sympathize with the tens of thousands of people who’ve lost everything, some even their lives. It’s natural for Evangelicals to interpret this as God’s retribution for the Crescent City’s “Sodom and Gommorah” ways. And hurricanes are natural….