Politics and culture

Front page of the Charleston SC Post and Courier, January 13, 2006

January 25, 2006, originally uploaded by Grand Lake.

Gore Vidal has a piece on Robert Scheer’s new web site, TruthDig: An excerpt: Not since the glory days of Watergate and Nixon’s Luciferian fall has there been so much written about the dogged deceits and creative criminalities of our rulers. We have also come to a point in this dark age where there is … Read more

SENATOR BARBARA BOXER’S STATEMENT ON THE NOMINATION OF SAMUEL L. ALITO TO BE ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT _________________________________________________________ Today, I am announcing my opposition to the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court of the United States. According to Article II of the Constitution, justices of the Supreme Court may … Read more

This is great. Salon posts a clip from a 60 Minutes interview of Felicity Huffman by Lesley Stahl, in which Huffman jumps the Hollywood-banality track and tells the shocking truth.

SusanG on dailykos cites this Boston Globe piece: Democrats to woo voters on wage issue Frozen minimum pay seen as spur By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | December 25, 2005 WASHINGTON — New Year’s Day will bring the ninth straight year in which the federal minimum wage has remained frozen at $5.15 an hour, marking … Read more

Proudly presented by Mary Tilson at a party in Oakland last night: SUPPORT THE MAGNETIC RIBBON INDUSTRY Right after I posted about this on The Well, Joe Ehrlich told me where to buy ’em online.

Bill O’Reilly, the emotionally-stunted creepazoid of Fox News, has teamed up with another of that network’s paid liars, John Gibson, to gin up yet another Weapon of Mass Distraction: “The War on Christmas.” Gibson calls it a “Liberal Plot”; I call it something to do with the fact that we are not a Christian nation. … Read more

My question to all who cheered the execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams: How exactly is your world improved by his elimination?