Dateline - Washington D.C.

In an unforeseen fulfillment of President Obama's pledge to bring Americans together, conservative groups across the country are reaching out to former political foes to fulfill their own pledge to free Americans from the oppression of being brought together.

"And this is not about race!" says...

That President Obama always seems surprised the right wing will do anything to destroy him reminds me of an old story.

A Prince, in torn and tattered clothes, falls at the feet of an old, wise man.

"Wise Man," he says, "my enemies have destroyed me! And...

Part Four in a finally ending series with which Michael puts the final nail in the coffin containing any hopes of being Facebook Friends with Larry Summers.

Part One: Most Americans are not capitalists. They might want to be capitalists, but no matter how much you, or that hardworking...

Part two of a four-part series in which Michael guarantees he will never work for a Fortune 500 company.

From Part One:

Most Americans are not capitalists. They might want to be capitalists, but no matter how much you, or that hardworking barista, that well-paid techno-nerd, small...

Capitalism - The Gift That Keeps On Giving: Part Three

Part three of a four part series in which Michael makes sure his in-laws' hopes of him finally landing a good, well paying job with a big company are totally squashed.

From Part Two:

"Every bust is proceeded by...

Part one of a four-part series in which Michael makes it clear why he's never been invited to a corporate brunch -- but he's not bitter.

What exactly is capitalism?

Some say it's the highest, most elegant economic structure upon which robust wealth for all can be built. Others...

Dateline. Washington, D.C.

Bigfoot. The Loch Ness Monster. Batboy. Throughout time there have always been those who insist they have seen mythical creatures, people who swear to the existence of phenomenon for which scientists say there is no tangible evidence, only hearsay, fable, legend.

But unlike the Abominable Snowman,...

The following is my speech to the Theater Bay Area Annual Conference in San Francisco, Oct 6, 2008:

700 billion dollars. 700 billion dollars... billion.... There are fewer than 7 billion people on Earth. So 700 billion means more than $100 for every man, woman and child on the planet.

A calm day. A sunny, day, for San Francisco - which means really foggy with what will ultimately be an unfulfilled promise of sun later. A nice day, when exposing the unfathomable idiocy that emanates from the Oval Office, or condemning the brutal criminality of corporate privateers ravaging our nation...

Racist Rejection Revives Dark Questions of Electability

Dateline - Lynchburg, Virginia

In a surprising move, which some are calling a deathblow to his candidacy, the Ku Klux Klan today decided to not endorse Senator Barack Obama in his bid for the Presidency of the United States. Seeming to validate Hillary...

Laconic, I'm not. Oh, I try, but get me started on politics, and how our proto-Fascistic overlords are trying to squeeze the last drops of worth from the working class as we blindly and passionately fight about God, gays, guns, and which millionaire we will elect to crush our dreams...

Longtime advocates of failure panic as polls indicate possible success

With the increasing likelihood that, whether Senator Barack Obama or Senator Hillary Clinton secure the Democratic nomination for the presidency, the Democrats have an excellent chance of winning in a head-to-head match up with presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, the...

"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
- Rep. Shirley Chisholm

There is an idea in our land. It is an idea that has been gaining traction since the 1980s, since the Great Communicator convinced so many that the New Deal had been...

Dateline - New York

In a long anticipated agreement lawyers of the holiday Christmas and those representing Jesus Christ yesterday announced the signing of a seven year, $180 million deal that will make the Prince of Peace the official face for the annual hellish winter celebration.

"We've been...

While I was growing up - or at least getting older - there were certain words and phrases that blazed across the political firmament. Some were soaring and inspirational, like "Give Peace a Chance," some were lamely laconic, like "Just Say No," and some were strangely urinary - "Trickle Down"...

Dateline, Washington D.C.

Red-eyed, and tired after a long night of closed door meetings with the Democratic leadership, Truth, flanked by Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, finally apologized for earlier expressions of itself it...

So, the other day I'm driving along, my son in his kid seat in the back, and I'm looking out the window, thinking about how San Francisco has changed from a class conscious hotbed of Radicals to a bevy of buttheads who moved here to be cool -- not realizing...

So I just finished touring with a show, MAKING A KILLING. Another laugh-filled musical comedy from the San Francisco Mime Troupe -- this time about government propaganda, self-censoring reporters, the ongoing scam that has always been the rebuilding of Iraq, cancer in epidemic proportions caused by our uranium tipped bombs...

It was a cool night, cool for early August. The poplars sighed in the evening, the small mansion's windows were shaded against the bright moonlight, and everything was peaceful at the O'Reilly home.

Suddenly a screech of tires, doors kicked in, shouted orders, a small porcelain figurine of...

It should come as no surprise to those who've heard me speak, whether in a blistering screed decrying our soulless corporatocracy to the oppressed masses, or in a fascinating diatribe on the impending fascistic theocracy to some poor slob I've cornered at a party when all he wanted was directions...