In all my years in journalism, I've never seen anything quite as disgusting as this.

And I know some of you will snicker, because it "only" hurts Hillary Clinton.

And you would be wrong about that.

The enemy isn't Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. It's the corporate media.

This is the second time Michelle Obama has said something really dumb (the first being her quote that she'd "have to think about it" when asked if she could see herself working to support Clinton if she won the nomination). [Ed. note: Corrected quote.]

This one's a lot more...

Are you as tired as I am of the politicians saying we "can't afford" universal healthcare?

Think about all the things we could do if we weren't spending untold sums on this war. Watch the video,...

One of my readers asked who I'd vote for, now that Edwards has left the race.

If I were going to cast a ballot Tuesday, I'd still be voting for John Edwards. Why?

Because I don't trust either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to carry the banner of progressive causes....

I read the Washington Post so you don't have to. Michael Gerson, former Bush speechwriter, today writes:

Proposals such as No Child Left Behind, the AIDS and malaria initiatives, and the addition of a prescription drug benefit to Medicare would simply not have come from a traditional conservative politician....

Yes, I know that national health programs have their drawbacks (a Canadian reader wrote me with a bunch of horror stories just this week) but removing the profit motive should take care of many of the problems we have now:

Eric Simpson was strangely calm when the insurance company...

(At front of hotel ballroom, ELIZABETH EDWARDS taps the podium mike.)

ELIZABETH:
Is this thing on? Oh good.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to today's press conference. As we said, John has an important statement to make. But first, I'd like to make my own statement.

(Flashes...

The more I think about Kristol getting a column at the Times, the madder I get. There are several hundred thousand dead Iraqis as a result of the bad information he persistently pushed to the American public, and this is treated as, oh, I don't know, a minor faux pas?...

But as far as I'm concerned, Mary is always going to look a lot like Imogene Herdman - sort of nervous and bewildered, but ready to clobber anyone who laid a hand on her baby. And the Wise Men are always going to be Leroy and his brothers, bearing ham....

This happened two miles from my new house, and although it didn't happen in my neighborhood, it's close by and I can't tell you how very sad I am that it happened. I grew up in a racist working-class neighborhood, and it brings back some bad memories.

Let me...

As my longtime readers know, I rarely comment on what right-wing blogs do. They're witting tools of the Republican smear machines, they just make shit up. So I ignore them.

But occasionally something comes along that's so outrageous, I have to say something.

The wack job who writes...

In today's segment of FoB: Is it a feature or a bug, that Rudy Giuliani's campaign hires a Minnesota law enforcement official who's know for using the "N" word? You decide!

This, by the way, ties in nicely with this week's Philadelphia Weekly cover story about Rudy's recent visit...

Some other bloggers picked up Miracle's story, and yesterday brought $3000 in donations to the Joseph family in New Orleans - which is great, but nowhere near what they need. (There's now a place to send checks, for those of you who don't like to donate online.)

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The downside of blogging is that you immerse yourself day after day, week after week in such depressing information. After all, there's not always much you can do about these things, and it can really wear on the spirit.

But every once in a while, something comes up where blogging...

Someone really is robbing musicians, and it's not who you'd think. That's why I would gladly donate $10 to this woman, and so would a lot of other people:

NPR.org, October 5, 2007 · A federal judge ordered a Minnesota woman to ante up thousands of dollars for violating...

This Sonny Landreth song reminds me of something that's been on my mind lately - couples staying together "for the children."

I'm not even talking about the ones who seem to get along on the surface but live in such quiet desperation and resignation; there's too many of...

We "can't afford" national health insurance.

Better schools are too expensive.

Expanding and fixing Amtrak is too expensive.

Taking care of the soldiers we used like Kleenex is too expensive.

Just about everything is too expensive for these fiscally-responsible Republicans

I had the local Fox affiliate's morning show on as I got ready for work this morning, and they made a brief mention of the Jena 6 rally in Louisiana today. They said participants were protesting "uneven" treatment by local police, saying it was racial.

"Uneven"? Yeah, I...

So the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Wall St. Journal this morning feature prominent pieces on Greenspan's new memoir.

You will, of course, be surprised to learn that Greenspan is a principled man! Totally above reproach! Loved Bill Clinton, except for the BJ thing!...

I polled my blog readers on who they thought was the best guitarist in the world, and it turned out to be an interesting question. I left it to them to define "best" any way they wanted, any genre, yet most of them automatically assumed I meant lead guitarist...