From Blog to Big Screen! Well, by way of a novel.

From Variety:

Mandalay finds 'Salvation Boulevard'

Ratliff to write, direct Beinhart adaptation
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Mandalay Independent Pictures has acquired screen rights to "Salvation Boulevard," the upcoming mystery novel by Larry Beinhart. George Ratliff will write the...

On June 10, 2008, Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush.

On June 11, 2008, they were referred to the Judiciary Committee. According to NPR, the Associated Press and the like, they were sent there to die.

That's too...

Old Myths From the Age of Idiocy (The One We're in Now)
To be replaced by:
New Truths For The Age of Reality (One We Hope to Enter)

The Great Republican Disaster, from Reagan to Bush the Lesser, has been the Time of the Unreal....

"In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by The New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied." Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, May...

READY ON DAY ONE!!!

In order to be READY ON DAY ONE, as both Hillary Clinton and John McCain claim they will be, you have to be ready a long time before that.

You have to come in with a plan. You have to come with a good organization....

I was the designated Jew on our visit to the synagogue.

We were there on a mission for peace. I kid you not. Though every time I say it, I feel like John Belushi as a Blues Brother in dark sunglasses, "You don't understand, we're on a mission from...

General Petraeus is being promoted. Now in charge of the war in Iraq, he will take charge of the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here's a quick summary of the media's opinion of the man, as taken from Wikipedia

Time has named Petraeus one of the 100 most...

Did you know there is an "official arbiter of when recessions begin?" It's called the National Bureau of Economic Research. It's a "private, non-profit, non-partisan," organization. It boasts that 16 of the 31 American Nobel Prize winners have been researchers there. The president of NBER announced on March 15 that...

I'm in Shiraz, on the way to Esfahan.

It's good to get out of gray, smoggy Tehran, one of the least photogenic cities in the world, where black is the new black, from the hejabs on down.

One of the attractions of Shiraz is the tomb of Hafez, a Persian...

Mike Huckabee has made a set of controversial statements about the Constitution (amendable), and the Word of God (not-amendable).

It aroused a fair amount of controversy. Which was good. But all of it missed the real point. The real point, or what should be the real point,...

In the past few months, against all odds, Bush has scored two incredible victories in Iraq.

They are, of course, over his favorite enemies, the media and the American public.

Now, at last, the enemy in Iraq is being called Al Qaeda!

So, now, at last we can discuss it.

Not just discuss it, in rapid order "Recession" became the word of the day, from White House, Congress, the Fed, and the media.

It's blamed, mostly, on the sub-prime crisis.

...

The War in Iraq has cost about $453,000,000,000 (four hundred and fifty-three billion dollars) to date.

That's pretty hard to grasp. Especially on my income and probably on yours. Let's bring that home and make it a little more understandable.

I live in Ulster County, New York. Our...

George Bush - and other Iraq War supporters - have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the slaughters - the killing fields -in Cambodia.

Here are the facts:

· The killing fields were real. The genocide against their own people was...

One of the pillars of the contemporary Republican Party has been racism.

They have made great efforts to mask it with euphemisms so that they can use code words to let anti-black voters know what side they're on and at the same time piously deny that they are being racist.

Generally it's mistake to use words like Nazi, Fascist and Hitler when we're talking about the Bush administration. But everyone once in awhile something comes along that cries out for a Colonel Klink accent and a rousing chorus of Springtime For Hitler.

The song comes from the film (and...

Mitt Romney, in the Republican presidential candidates debate last night, said that the reason we went to war in Iraq was that Saddam Hussein would not let weapons inspectors in.

That's right up there with Gerald Ford's gaffe, saying that "There is no Soviet domination of...

Supposedly we are in a sustained economic recovery and have been since 2002.

Part of this is Bush hot air and the Republican Noise Machine, which the media quotes verbatim.

By a certain measure, however, it's real.

The economy has grown. Corporate profits are at an all-time high. Average income...

I live in New York. I called my Senators and Representative.

Hillary Clinton:

I called Senator Hillary Clinton's office to ask how she was going to vote on the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill without benchmarks. The staffer at the other end of the line...

There is a great moral conundrum in the Iraq situation.

The pro-war position that we cannot abandon the mess we've made does have great certain moral authority. There are now millions upon millions of Iraqis whose lives have been ruined in this war...