This week's confirmation hearing of Hillary Clinton was a promising sign that Team Obama will mean a return to prepared, knowledgeable, fact-based leadership. Maybe Justin Timberlake can do a remix for the Inauguration: Bringing CompetenceBack! The one glitch belonged to Timothy Geithner. Four words, Tim: H & R Block. Elsewhere, David Vitter's lone anti-Hillary vote appeared to be a desperate ploy to gain notoriety for something other than his history with hookers. And George Bush and Dick Cheney smirked and snarled their way through their final days, rewriting the history of Katrina (W), and expressing long-held aggravation that the New York Times won a Pulitzer for exposing the administration's warrantless wiretapping program (Dick). They clearly are devotees of the Erich Segal school of leadership: running the country into the ground means never having to say you're sorry.
We have gathered a group of individuals who share the courage to pledge to our president, and the world at large, what it is that they are willing to do, give, or sacrifice, in an effort to help their fellow man.
It's true what he said: we misunderestimated him. He was misunderestimated in every way. It was hard to imagine that this feckless leader could do so much damage.
I never thought as Martin Luther King Jr's former advisor and speechwriter that I would live long enough to ever publicly write or say these words.
Will Obama's promise to protect and defend the Constitution include an investigation into the assaults on it perpetrated by members of the Bush administration?
Why did Lincoln defend slavery so vigorously in his inaugural address, thus alienating abolitionists and progressives in his party?
There is a growing sense of National Unity that I only heard about growing up. It feels like the times they are a changing. Feel the change. Be the change.
All I know is it's almost impossible for a gay man to find another gay man to have sex with without getting sent to Iraq and killed.
Six months ago during a concert in LA we turned the mike over to the audience and "Solid as Barack" was born!
It occurred to me that maybe more was going on at the site of the 1.1 billion gallon coal ash spill in Tennessee than what I could gather from the news. With an invitation from the community, I decided to make the trip to the disaster site.
The folks at the Center for Public Integrity have documented, in one place, the failures of the current administration, and enabled the public to vote on the worst.
Help me. I'm confused. Are we supposed to ignore the past, forget finger-pointing and blame-gaming and look forward? Or are we supposed to demand accountability? Or some third option?
"Dear neighbors, in exchange for all the support you've shown me, I'd like to do something for you -- in the form of the investment opportunity of a lifetime."
This song popped up at the end of a session in NYC last month. We recorded it that night before we went home. Hope you enjoy this little Shakey Pix video we did last week. I'll be with you on the 20th.
We've produced a lot of shows but never one that came together this quickly -- or where everyone involved is so caught up with the privilege of being part of an occasion.
Let's not wish George W. any ill -- he's gone. But let us have no more Bushes in the White House. Ever.
I beenz Precedent of The United over 8 to 10 yearz gone bye. I haz fun to be Precedent of y'all, even immegrantz, but not gayz. Here is my list of favorites, all favoritez, for you.
From the civilian deaths in Gaza will spring more hatred and terrorism. Yet no people are so prone as Americans and Israelis to think admiringly of our own good intentions.
As the poor and the formerly middle class Nouveau Poor become the American majority, they will finally have the clout to get their needs met.
