Steven Weber

I love Republican strategists. They want to try to win the next presidential election by spreading the message that Barack Obama is a "metrosexual black Abe Lincoln."

Abe Lincoln was dirt poor, occasionally shared a bed with his buddy Joshua Speed, was really tall and roundly admired by black people....

Forget populist social issues which hog headlines and provide cud for every pundit (or "pundint," the term poised to overtake "nuc-u-ler" as the go-to malapropism) to chew, as those things are just peripheral, personal and damned to incessant, never ending Möbius strip debates.

What's really the preeminent issue of...

You can tell a lot by what's left over in the wake of a destructive act, just like you can divine the shape of an object when observing the "negative" space surrounding it. Like those unfathomably attractive CSI investigators do on TV, residual carnage can tell the story just as...

Flash! Citizens who think they are getting the facts are instead ingesting data that just makes them feel good, keeping them perpetually misinformed and keeping whatever bad feelings which might result from any truthful analysis at bay. Next, Kim Kardashian spotted in flimsy dress at opening and much anticipation of...

To deny this duly elected president his right to govern.

To deny The People their right to a functioning government.

To deny and derail facts in favor of partisan spin.

To deny the poor, the sick, the disenfranchised a chance to regain their footing.

To deny science and embrace superstition.

There's a scene in the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead where one of the t-shirt-clad, gun-toting survivors has reached her saturation point re the mindless, reanimated, flesh-consuming corpses and finds herself walking among them, quite easily dodging their clumsy swipes and gnashes.

And all she can...

So glad we're all living in a post-racial society! The proof? Why, a black president in the White House, of course. Change has come at last!

Uh... not quite.

Watching the media pundits squirm in their chairs while contorting their vocabularies in order to avoid giving a name to the...

A studious disregard of fact-based, actionable beliefs seems to be the hallmark of the current incarnation of "conservative." For in literalizing myth-based ideologies, be they religious or political, success of such ideological relationships depends wholly on perfection that is unsustainable and will in the real world, therefore, only ever fail.

I suppose it could be said that Rush Limbaugh and his brethren (and sistren) in the right-wing corporate media who regularly sculpt human behavior and current events into an unabashedly cruel and particularly paranoid narrative, only to then regurgitate it to their fact-starved audience like owls disgorging mouse-viscera into the...

"Try and leave this world a little better than you found it..." ~ Robert Baden-Powell

Maybe the takeaway, politically speaking, from the sudden death of my friend Andrew Breitbart is that once again we are all reminded how brief our time is on this planet, how precious our...

Denuded of their deception as they have never been, the GOP clearly demonstrates its unique fixation for crafting reality in its own image, creating a justification for its Dark Age vision for the world, whether by building a mythical afterlife to stave off the terror of eternal nothingness or a...

Whenever certain folks are in a shitload of trouble, when they are desperate and afraid, they hit hard and hit low and just keep goddamn hitting. Blindly, sloppily, cruelly.

I mean, where were people hurting the most right after September 11th 2001? In their hearts, their marrow. Every American...

"Money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money money" -- Kander and Ebb (Cabaret)

You'd think it's all about money, wouldn't ya? But you'd be wrong.

It's the facts, stupid!
It's the substance, stupid!

(WARNING: prolonged exposure to corporate right-wing toxins can cause unfounded and unnatural fear and loathing of "others", decreases in income and productivity, increased wheezing due to unregulated industrial waste and a marked rise in purchases of Sansabelt Slacks®.)

The more the corporate right-wing tries to influence, cajole and otherwise force-feed...

Since the GOP's campaign issues have little or no credibility as constructive policies after having been field-tested under W for eight rot-inducing years, what then are the GOP presidential contenders being judged on?

Style, m'man, style (sansabelt slacks, anyone?).

With the jaw-dropping inanity of each of the entrants being inadvertently...

So, I'm on Twitter. @TheStevenWeber. (The "The" was only because there are a number of "other" Steven Webers. Anyway:)

It's fun and it's fast. I liken it to hurling dumbass jokes from the window of a moving car, which I used to like to do in the days...

Were an individual to demonstrate the kind of delusional, violently divisive thought and paranoid rhetoric that all of the GOP candidates -- as well as the party overall -- they'd be put under observation and found to be a danger to society.

One could say that the GOP presidential candidates...

The Republicans have tipped their hand -- spilled it all over the floor, actually -- and demonstrated beyond doubt that they are solely dedicated to crippling any idea that Americans should have hope, that Americans should be nothing less than afraid and that history and facts are merely vague, noisy...

To those who still haven't made the politics/news/entertainment connection yet, even though the unholy nexus is on display every time a TV screen (or AM radio) is switched on, the daily events that are classified carelessly as "news" would seem thoroughly authentic.

Balderdash, I say!

I mean, was the...

Forget the conventional media analyses of the current Right Wing/Corporate political machine's behavior, analyses which presume the presence of a conventional system of moral and ethical beliefs.

Forget it.

Because the current Right Wing/Corporate political machine's behavior defies presumptions of a conventional system of beliefs by which democratically...