He we go again.

Knowing that you can fool some of the people all of the time, Sarah Palin is clubbing American politainment (New Coinable Phrase Alert) like it was a baby seal.

Without a team of Machiavellian neocons to pull her strings, The Vanilla Guerrilla from Wasilla...

The "King of Pop" is dead.

But while the man may have mattered, his self-anointed royalty is just another example of the superficiality of our pop culture and its rotating cadre of paper-thin ambassadors.

Michael Jackson was yet another personality prized more for his ability to generate massive...

The Facebook video of a young Iranian woman dying from an assassin's bullet (June 20th, 2009 1:15 PM") brings home the situation not only in Iran but in any country people live where freedom must be fought for. Because freedom should be a natural state of being, an expectation...

While liberals may rightly bristle at a cranky, diaper-wearing right-winger who wails about a "nanny state" whenever health care, social security, food stamps, welfare or affirmative action come up (or really anything involving so-called progressive social programs, i.e., "big government") those liberal, progressive minds which of late have been chastising...

We create the news, we report the news we've created, we tell you to decide in our favor.

Conspiracy theories aside, I suspect that fomenting discord, even to the point of violence, is in the Fox News manifesto of blatant bias, outrageous Orwellian newspeak and basic shit-stirring, all in an...

Really its about strangling. Smothering. Giving no quarter.

It's about taking no prisoners and eating the wounded. And it's about all the Republicans do (or do well).

In move after cynical move, the Republican party has revealed its true agenda, one closer to Vince Lombardi's than to Thomas...

As everyone knows, the corporate behemoths who for years drove this country's prosperity are foundering.

Credit for this has ranged from the brazen profiteering on the parts of CEO's and their upper echelon political associates, having let greed consume them like late stage cancer, to years of unregulated activity...

They are showing themselves, ladies and gentlemen. They are exposing the twitching, seething hate-mongers they always were.

And these sorry, media goons are only the business end of the Republican party, whose heart is as virulent and detestable as any beating within the chest of the terrorists they so...

From an overall agenda of inaction to daily coordinated interference, the Right Wing (the one that flaps so desperately in an effort to keep the eagle flying in an ever contracting circle) has effectively declared war -- on America.

Seething with as much passion to impede progress as any...

Who is Dick Cheney? Really?

What is the man doing?

Is he a patriot?

Does he love America?

Does he fear for the safety of its citizens?

Is he a statesman who values what America stands for?

Does he value its history?

Here are some answers:

He is...

no longer do I linger with your finger in the ringer
no longer do I cringe when you try to singe your fringe
no longer do I scratch at your thickly thatched hatch
no longer do I snipe at the tripe in your pipe
no...

How to explain the utterly cracked behavior of our former VP (and avoid kicking ourselves every waking moment for having somehow allowed this man to run the country for as long as he did)?

It turns out that Dick Cheney, the legendarily infallible, mythically redoubtable Dick Cheney has actually been...

Why no hearings to divine the truth behind this country's practice of torture? Why, really?

Is it because Team Obama realizes that almost any high profile political event will, in the hands of an unrestrained media, become the next OJ super-trial-style reality show, full of daily misleading headlines and salacious...

In an effort to reassess its current pariah state the Republicans are trying to decide whether to expand or purify ("G.O.P. Debate: A Broader Party or a Purer One?" New York Times, 4/29/09).

The very argument suggests that, like all the methods and policies they have espoused for years,...

Simply looking one sees the answer.

It's everywhere.

It's everything.

From see-saws to scales to foreign and domestic policies to sociopolitical philosophies.

No need to spin and twist the reality to fit a terrified ideology's desperate subjectiveness; no need to frantically search in frustrated adulthood for what...

In everything -- from defending torture to eschewing diplomacy to regularly engaging in Orwellian contradiction to its unctuous servility to radical religion to its blatant corporate cronyism to its obvious disdain for intellect -- the Republican Party shows few signs of being a viable political organization and every sign of...

Trying to make something--anything---out of their party's creeping irrelevance, the folks who still hold the reins over at Republican HQ have come up with a complex strategy to win back the hearts and minds they lost:

1. Deride Obama's use of teleprompters

2. Send tea bags through the mail...

So there it stands: a naked, pigeon-chested old man, random strands of white hair on its boney shoulders; its swollen-knuckled hands clasped over its dead genitals, looking at once forlorn and menacing, shivering with self-loathing and xenophobia, raging pathetically at its timely and appropriate defeat at the hands of Reason.

There was a brief moment back in his CNN days when Glenn Beck made a feint at a seemingly more credible libertarian identity by having as a guest the woefully misused genius D.L. Hughley (full disclosure: he's my friend. Hey, D.L.!) to balance his squint-inducing broadsides, making him merely irascible...

It's been very elucidating being an American this year. More people found a genuine voice in the most exciting and engaging election in decades. An almost Capraesque feeling of optimism has replaced the bitter resignation resulting from eight confounding Bush years.

And yet, our recent enlightenment has exposed the...