Last July, I took a novice's look at hedge funds, housing, gambling and America's ass-backwards foreign policy and declared what I thought to be the obvious. The spiel landed on Alternet in the form of a supposedly sensational article called The Crash of 1929: Are We on the Verge...

"I'm overwhelmed/I'm on repeat," Michael Stipe sings on "Hollow Man," probably the quietest song on R.E.M.'s incredible, jagged release Accelerate, due out March 31 to the rest of the world and America on April Fool's Day. It's a potent dose of post-millennial anger that...

I'm not going to predict that Obama sweeps the rest of the states as surely as he has in Iowa's Democratic primary, especially on the eve of New Hampshire's tally. But I am going to say that Hillary Clinton continues to bark up the wrong tree. And the reason is...

I've been trying to stay out of the so-called "horse race" aspect of the 2008 election, mostly because it smells like horse ass. But you have got to give someone their due when they go to work for you, and so far only Christopher Dodd has...

I have bad news for you. American currency is not what it used to be. And we are no longer a beacon of freedom to the oppressed of Earth, no matter what Bush and Cheney are selling. Disaster capitalism. Hostile takeovers. Terminology hiding the same authoritarian...

Lost in a haze of hyperreal distractions and the weakening of our body politic, we forget in fact how our planet came into being: Violent eruptions, long periods of stability, sometimes equilibrium. But its eruptions were serious, and nothing to shrug off....

The War on Drugs, just like the War on Terror, drags on pointlessly. Wasting billions of dollars, millions of lives, and precious time with no progress made and no goals met. And not just because the Founding Fathers themselves grew hemp either.

Rather, declaring war on anything,...

First Karl Rove, and now Alberto Gonzales. The Bush administration is clearing brush from its pathetic ranks, but let's not fool ourselves: They're not doing it to save face. Or because they finally saw the error of their ways.

George W. Bush may be many...

Back in 2003, my wife and I were lucky enough to work with Viggo Mortensen and his indie publisher Perceval Press on a book calling out the war in Iraq as a mammoth clusterbungle before it really got started. It...

While Morphizm and others not on the continental grift have been trying to tell everyone from the casual American internet surfer to Nancy Pelosi herself, Bush isn't playing the power trip for popularity and effect. He's playing it...

Dearest Keith:

This is coming from a guy who only watched SportsCenter because you and Dan were on it. As well as a dude who couldn't stand watching you parrot the Lewinsky coverage in the 1990s because, as it obvious to everyone else in the world now, it...

Man, Cheney's "Go Fuck Yourself" insult has crazy staying power. You can use it for just about anything. Which is probably the same way George Bush feels about the U.S. Constitution. He can use it for anything.

His latest hyperreality...

The U.S. Attorney Scandals suck onward. Alberto VO5 can't seem to remember anything, except that he can't remember anything. Well, that and everyone else, including his Deputy Attorney General has more power, more accountability and a better memory than he does. Even when he can't be...

Man, the Oxycontin clusterbungle just gets worse and worse. After years of hooking the poor, the pained and (Rush Limbaugh and Rudy Guiliani, pick up the white phone) serious pains in the ass, the insanely addictive but nevertheless wholly...

For those looking for a refresher on exponology, a casual field of study I created for my upcoming book Hyperhighway to Hell devoted to political and mathematical exponents, check here and here for the goods. But know that, at its heart, exponology is interested...