Reading the news about Arlen Specter and his party switch has been kind of interesting. Republicans have called it “an act of political desperation” while Democratic bloggers and their readers are quick to point out that he’s generally a “flip flopper” and can’t be counted on as a reliable Democratic vote. I’m wondering, why is […]

After yelling that at the TeeVee commentators on the sunday shows who called it everything but, I read Sullivan’s skewering of the pro-torture “enhanced interrogation” crowd’s defense of the indefensible.
Moreover, it is worth pointing out that even if you accept the preposterous notion that waterboarding isn’t torture - something no legal authority in human […]

Prepare for your draw to drop (and take proper precautions)… from Congress Matters

The Republicans’ favorite talking point on the stimulus package — that there’s a $30 million earmark for preserving the habitat of a type of mouse, alleged somehow to be living exclusively in the district of Speaker Pelosi — is complete horseshit.

Speaker Pelosi’s district […]

I heard something really infuriating in passing on the News Hour a couple nights ago. The good folks at PBS did an interview with a cross section of Americans who had lost their jobs and were now receiving some form of government assistance (I know, depressing as fuck). Lots of common themes between all of […]

Sullivan on the Republican trait of hyperventilating over topics of sex. I thought it odd that the conservative counterpoint to the Obama stimulus plan was a picture of Pelosi and the words “Birth control” and “STD” in the headline on Drudge. It’s bizarre that even now, the Republicans still can’t appeal to people’s intellect and […]

Welcome to San Francisco according to the world of Bill O’Reilly.

This shit be real
It’s funny, you don’t really realize just how bad a TV “news” hit piece can be until you actually see one that you’re somewhat knowledgeable about. Sure, they went around and found some of our grimier street corners and filmed homeless people […]

Today I got to vote for Hope, for Civil Rights and to rename San Francisco’s sewage treatment plant all on the same ballot.
The only thing that could have made it better would be getting to personally spit in Karl Rove’s face on the way out.

Regardless of how you feel on gay people getting married, I believe that it’s important that proposition 8 (ban on gay marriage) in California be defeated. That the government dabbles in the institution of marriage (in my opinion) subjects this institution to be non-discriminatory. In essence, if we want to discriminate on who can get […]

[Image Credit: AP/Morry Gash]
The contrast couldn’t have been greater. McCain’s barf-green backdrop of lame in front of a crowd that could have been mistaken for my Econ 101 lecture class was a complete dud. Hillary’s oddly worded “victory” speech pushed the envelope of political suicide. But Obama’s speech, just wow. I’d never seen anything like […]

I continue to be really stunned by the imagery that surrounds Obama in this campaign. I can’t think of another candidate that has been portrayed in this manner during a campaign by graphic print and street artists. Is this the growth of our generation into a political machine and marking a shift in the that […]