Americans: sick, poor, undereducated,...
Aug 31st
“Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and...”
— How to Explain the Religions...
— How to Explain the Religions...
Aug 31st
“Progressive democracy is a self-reinforcing system. Wherever...”
— Sara Robinson
— Sara Robinson
Aug 31st
Iceland's geothermal know-how to warm others
Aug 31st
“I think Hymowitz’s story gives too small a part to...”
— Manliness in the Modern Age
— Manliness in the Modern Age
Aug 31st
“As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a...”
— H.P. Lovecraft
— H.P. Lovecraft
Aug 31st
“So if you take a look at what the deficit would be under...”
— Mother Jones
— Mother Jones
Aug 31st
I Enjoy Being Poor
Aug 31st
“Seniors are like the American West. They depend on...”
— Julian Zeilzer
— Julian Zeilzer
Aug 31st
Gmail may hand over IP addresses of...
Aug 31st
Troubling bubbles
Aug 31st
“Why are Republicans trying to kill America’s old...”
— Jacob Weisberg
— Jacob Weisberg
Aug 31st
What to Do With the Embryos?
Aug 31st
“Corporations are pushing through legislation in the United...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 31st
How to Take Back America
Aug 30th
“The prevalence and predominance of science in our culture...”
— Mortimer Adler
— Mortimer Adler
Aug 30th
“They should convene a panel for the next Meet the Press with...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Aug 30th
“I, along with the rest of the nation have watched in horror...”
— Julie Clawson
— Julie Clawson
Aug 30th
De mortuis: Teddy Kennedy & dereg
Aug 30th
“Had China announced that it was going to turn rebel Uighurs...”
— The Great Exception
— The Great Exception
Aug 30th
“A man named Michael David Lindsay—I’m sorry, D. Michael...”
— Jeff Sharlet
— Jeff Sharlet
Aug 30th
Please Forward This Post
Aug 30th
What Would Jesus Really Do?
Aug 30th
“The torture story is one of the most important examples of...”
— Balkinization
— Balkinization
Aug 30th
Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs?
Aug 30th
“…most Americans think they already have a life preserver...”
— No More Mister Nice Blog
— No More Mister Nice Blog
Aug 30th
John Sherffius
Aug 30th
Radical Republicans, Health Care Reform and...
Aug 29th
Smug Internet Millionaires and...
Ted Kennedy and the Duty to Rescue …to Ted Kennedy’s killing of Mary Jo Kopechne… Mr....
Aug 29th
bartcop.com
Aug 29th
“It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that...”
— Dr. Donald Berwick
— Dr. Donald Berwick
Aug 29th
Shotgun Adoption
Aug 29th
“I’d rather see Barack Obama go down fighting for vigorous...”
— Bill Moyers
— Bill Moyers
Aug 29th
“The debate over whether torture extracted valuable...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Aug 29th
New CIA Docs Detail Brutal "Extraordinary...
Aug 29th
“We are now into the third presidential term in which the US...”
— Paul Craig Roberts
— Paul Craig Roberts
Aug 28th
“I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of...”
— How Jewish is Hollywood?
— How Jewish is Hollywood?
Aug 28th
“Saying that young people should just buy health care instead...”
— Squashed
— Squashed
Aug 28th
bartcop.com
Aug 28th
Glenn Beck's Attack On Van Jones: Fantasies &...
Aug 28th
“The experience of early Christian health care sheds light on...”
— The Health Care Debate, Early...
— The Health Care Debate, Early...
Aug 28th
The market thus far…
marco: Apple may possess the market lead for now, but I predict in a few years, it will succumb to...
Aug 28th
Words for Webstock
Aug 28th
Jeff Danziger
Aug 28th
“…cable news networks, with their focus on the exciting and...”
— Submitted to a Candid World
— Submitted to a Candid World
Aug 28th
“War is only a cowardly alternative to the problems of peace.”
— Thomas Mann
— Thomas Mann
Aug 28th
Beyond Denominations, the Hyphenated Church
Aug 28th
“These are technically sophisticated people who take pride in...”
— Jim Buckmaster
— Jim Buckmaster
Aug 28th
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble...”
— Winston Churchill
— Winston Churchill
Aug 28th
Steve Benson
Aug 28th
There's a whup for that
squashed: By reviewing applications, Apple tacitly endorses them. This is bad for Apple, in that...
Aug 27th
“Conservative supremacists are willing to wage...”
— The Daily Doubter
— The Daily Doubter
Aug 27th
R.J. Matson
Aug 27th
Sibel Edmonds Speaks, But No One Is Listening
Aug 27th
“Christians who believe in the sanctity of life ought to be...”
— Skye Jethani
— Skye Jethani
Aug 27th
Rally 'Round the "True Constitution"
Aug 27th
“Teachability is often confused with subservience. A person...”
— Mortimer Adler
— Mortimer Adler
Aug 27th
Log and Reblog
robot-heart-politics: Warning: I’m reblogging everything azspot posts this morning. Wow,...
Aug 27th
The Scapegoat's Apology
Aug 27th
“As for the traditional warriors, they should lie in wait:...”
— Ezra Klein
— Ezra Klein
Aug 27th
“Americans are famous for not paying much attention to the...”
— Mark Weisbrot
— Mark Weisbrot
Aug 27th
Jeff Danziger
Aug 27th
“There’s no room in the evangelical right wing for the arts,...”
— Frank Schaeffer
— Frank Schaeffer
Aug 27th
Hannity for president
Aug 27th
“We are so caught up in the myths of the best and the...”
— Malcolm Gladwell
— Malcolm Gladwell
Aug 27th
“The document reads, like so much else from the Cheney years,...”
— Andrew Sullivan
— Andrew Sullivan
Aug 27th
Move Medicare To 55 Then Drop It Every Year
Aug 27th
“There are 257 Democrats in the House today, only 178 are...”
— Jane Hamsher
— Jane Hamsher
Aug 27th
Could a Republican Win Ted Kennedy's Senate...
Aug 27th
“The term Taliban is also used as a convenient catch-all...”
— Conor Foley
— Conor Foley
Aug 27th
Health Care Fit for Animals
Aug 27th
“Doctors—and many Republicans—constantly carp...”
— The Evil-Mongering Of The...
— The Evil-Mongering Of The...
Aug 26th
David Fitzsimmons
Aug 26th
“One of the major policy agendas that was put into place...”
— rationalrevolution.net
— rationalrevolution.net
Aug 26th
Why the Health Care Debate Is So Explosive
Aug 26th
nakedpastor
Aug 26th
“So we have come full circle: The reformers shake hands with...”
— Thomas Frank
— Thomas Frank
Aug 26th
To clarify the "incident" at my Seattle...
Aug 26th
“Without the bailouts we would have had many more failed...”
— Were the bailouts a good idea?
— Were the bailouts a good idea?
Aug 26th
Michael Steele's Disastrous Idea of a...
Aug 26th
Watch
The Dream Will Never Die, Part 4
Aug 26th
May The Road Rise Up To Meet You
Aug 26th
Matt Bors
Aug 26th
“Implicit to the drug companies’ messianic promises of...”
— The Drug Baron’s...
— The Drug Baron’s...
Aug 26th
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the...
Aug 26th
“A singular absurdity of the 21st century is that the nation...”
— Pen and Sword
— Pen and Sword
Aug 26th
“Few things are more repellent than watching the contemporary...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Aug 26th
Pat Bagley
Aug 26th
“An asshole is someone who says Obama is like Hitler because...”
— What is an asshole?
— What is an asshole?
Aug 25th
Health Care Abroad: Japan
Aug 25th
xkcd
Aug 25th
Making Babies in Space May Be Harder Than It...
Aug 25th
“These technophobes are right about so many things. The...”
— The Technium
— The Technium
Aug 25th
Compulsary Insurance Won’t Work
Aug 25th
Ask the Association for Christian Retail to...
Aug 25th
All the President’s Zombies
Aug 25th
“For the church to lack love is for the church to lack...”
— Greg Boyd
— Greg Boyd
Aug 25th
“I’ve signed my fair share of doctrinal statements through...”
— Rachel Held Evans
— Rachel Held Evans
Aug 25th
You Scare Me, Mr. Pritchett
Aug 25th
Watch
Money Talks: Profits Before Patient Safety
Aug 25th
“Where the Bible mentions homosexual behavior at all, it...”
— Walter Wink
— Walter Wink
Aug 25th
Watch
Social Media Revolution
Aug 25th
Wired and Feathered
caterpillarcowboy: “Only programmers, customer service reps, and accounting staff work at...
Aug 25th
We Need to Know What Was Done in Our Name
Aug 25th
“My big mission is to help make grassroots democracy as much...”
— Craig Newmark
— Craig Newmark
Aug 25th
Research finds higher ocean acidification off...
Aug 25th
“Obama’s victory can indeed be seen as a reaction to...”
— A Mean Streak in the US...
— A Mean Streak in the US...
Aug 25th
Not Enough Money Or Time To Defend Detroit's...
Aug 25th
Watch
Nils Gilman: The Global Illicit Economy
Aug 24th
Matt Bors
Aug 24th
“We need to rediscover our moral language in so many forms of...”
— The Moral Language Of Health...
— The Moral Language Of Health...
Aug 24th
Many of the pundits attacking government...
Aug 24th
“People are falling sick and dying all around us and when,...”
— Alice Walker
— Alice Walker
Aug 24th
Who’s Paying to Kill Health Reform?
Aug 24th
Don't Let the Stimulus Lose Its Spark
Aug 24th
“The collectivites arrayed against the “Obamacare” bogeyman...”
— On systems, and what they do
— On systems, and what they do
Aug 24th
Paranoia is a Pre-Existing Condition
Aug 24th
“American attitudes to crime and punishment are unspeakable;...”
— Merciless
— Merciless
Aug 24th
“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is...”
— Mohandas Gandhi
— Mohandas Gandhi
Aug 24th
bartcop.com
Aug 24th
How Does the Quality of U.S. Health Care...
Aug 24th
“One of the most powerful forms of stimulus we could apply to...”
— Want to Stimulate the Economy?...
— Want to Stimulate the Economy?...
Aug 24th
Congress Deadlocked Over How To Not Provide...
Aug 24th
“There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse...”
— William Calley
— William Calley
Aug 24th
Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of...
Aug 24th
“The bills now in Congress will, at best, impose on the...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 24th
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics...”
— Plato
— Plato
Aug 24th
xkcd
Aug 24th
Marriage and the Courts
Aug 24th
“An irrational society accepts injustice because it does not...”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Aug 23rd
Right to a speedy trial? Not so much
Aug 23rd
The Guns of August
Aug 23rd
“To look at this in a larger context, journalists would no...”
— ‘Truth’ vs....
— ‘Truth’ vs....
Aug 23rd
Andy Singer
Aug 23rd
“Abstract reason, unassisted by passion, is no match for...”
— William Hazlitt
— William Hazlitt
Aug 23rd
Obama critics should respect 6 million dead
Aug 23rd
“Fundamentally the feeling of being ripped off by Obama comes...”
— The Agonist
— The Agonist
Aug 23rd
Steve Benson
Aug 23rd
Top Ten Differences Between Bush & Obama...
Aug 23rd
“And here’s the point: the right is using...”
— Susan Jacoby
— Susan Jacoby
Aug 23rd
“Modern democracies have been an experiment in social...”
— After the Future
— After the Future
Aug 23rd
Transparency Chic
Aug 23rd
Mike Keefe
Aug 22nd
“Bear in mind that by the time the terror alert controversy...”
— Paul Krugman
— Paul Krugman
Aug 22nd
Prisons of Evil
Aug 22nd
Dilbert
Aug 22nd
Religion and Politics
think4yourself: An Observation About Religion and Politics Among Christian conservatives, it...
Aug 22nd
An Observation About Religion and Politics
Aug 22nd
Rob Rogers
Aug 22nd
“It has everything to do with taking the Christian gospel...”
— Cornel West
— Cornel West
Aug 22nd
“My friends abroad tell me it is pitiful to watch such...”
— Joe Bageant
— Joe Bageant
Aug 22nd
Bill Day
Aug 22nd
“The narrative is simple: Insurance company plans have failed...”
— The Policy-Speak Disaster for...
— The Policy-Speak Disaster for...
Aug 22nd
A Detailed Look At The Stratified U.S....
Aug 22nd
“The United States has, over the past two decades, started to...”
— The Two-Track Economy
— The Two-Track Economy
Aug 22nd
“I use 140 characters to express my ideas; you use thousands....”
— 22 Words
— 22 Words
Aug 22nd
Watch
Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance
Aug 21st
Osama Terror Tape Was Actually Cheney in...
Aug 21st
“One has to wonder why God would single out the ELCA’s...”
— Greg Boyd
— Greg Boyd
Aug 21st
Highest Ever Ocean Temperature
Aug 21st
Still in love with my Kindle 2
Aug 21st
“I think the current state of US health care is precarious....”
— The Health Care Debate from a...
— The Health Care Debate from a...
Aug 21st
40 years of Unix
Aug 21st
Watch
TRAILER: Michael Moore’s ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’
Aug 21st
The 3 key parts of news stories you usually...
Aug 21st
“Health care is a shared social responsibility — for...”
— A Message from Whole Foods:...
— A Message from Whole Foods:...
Aug 21st
“To be liberal is to be free to adapt to new knowledge, new...”
— you might be a liberal (even...
— you might be a liberal (even...
Aug 21st
“I don’t know if administration officials realize just how...”
— Paul Krugman
— Paul Krugman
Aug 21st
Jeff Danziger
Aug 21st
Mr. Frommer sure opened the floodgates
altidude: For myself, without yet suggesting that others follow me in an open boycott, I will not...
Aug 20th
“For myself, without yet suggesting that others follow me in...”
— Arthur Frommer
— Arthur Frommer
Aug 20th
“Conservatives seem to feel that the only real threats to...”
— Touching back to principles
— Touching back to principles
Aug 20th
John Sherffius
Aug 20th
“Throughout the Bush years, those who said patnetly true...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Aug 20th
“There was McCarthyism in the 1950s, the John Birch Society...”
— The GOP Has Become a Party of...
— The GOP Has Become a Party of...
Aug 20th
Don't Cry For Tom Ridge
Aug 20th
Andy Singer
Aug 20th
“Twitter probably isn’t going to make THE_REAL_SHAQ governor,...”
— Aaron Swartz
— Aaron Swartz
Aug 20th
Experts say urinating in the shower is not so...
Aug 20th
“Twitter is not a “Facebook status without Facebook”. It is a...”
— Twitter Haters
— Twitter Haters
Aug 20th
“Rushkoff is right: our 21st-century global computing...”
— George Dyson
— George Dyson
Aug 20th
Good Society Test
Aug 20th
Who Are the Liberal Democrats and the...
Aug 20th
“The American left has crumbled and sold out to a bankrupt...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 20th
My Take On the Health Reform Bill
Aug 20th
“Unfortunately, the people have been mesmerized by our...”
— Joe Bageant
— Joe Bageant
Aug 20th
The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus
Aug 20th
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your...”
— Anne Lamott
— Anne Lamott
Aug 20th
the tornado to stop the "gays"
Aug 20th
“The emergence of virtual community, the virtual ecclesia,...”
— microclesia
— microclesia
Aug 20th
“All societies are being torn between traditionalists and...”
— George Friedman
— George Friedman
Aug 20th
Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review:...
Aug 20th
Steve Sack
Aug 20th
“Then there’s the whole problem of ecological blowback. Hurst...”
— An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks...
— An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks...
Aug 19th
Washing Health Care Clean
Aug 19th
“[Mike] Huckabee knows that the Republican base lives in its...”
— Glenn Greenwald
— Glenn Greenwald
Aug 19th
10 Reasons to Support Health-Care Reform
Aug 19th
“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There’s...”
— Dorothy Day
— Dorothy Day
Aug 19th
When Food Is Discounted, Consumers Should Ask...
Aug 19th
“A few timid people, who fear progress, will try to give you...”
— Franklin Roosevelt
— Franklin Roosevelt
Aug 19th
“The corporate power that holds the government hostage has...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 19th
The Davis Tremor
Aug 19th
The Falsehoods
Aug 19th
“To a nomadic people, the concept of private property is so...”
— Primitive Capitalism
— Primitive Capitalism
Aug 19th
The Essence of the Health Care Endgame
Aug 19th
The problem with PowerPoint
Aug 19th
“The Republican leadership has made a strategic decision that...”
— Dems to “Go It Alone” On...
— Dems to “Go It Alone” On...
Aug 19th
Why the Right's Propaganda Works
Aug 19th
“Obama said he wanted national healthcare, and presented...”
— Douglas Rushkoff
— Douglas Rushkoff
Aug 19th
How Right Was Reagan?
Aug 18th
On Apple Rumor Reports
marco: Do you ever get tired of blogging the same old debunkment of every wildly unlikely,...
Aug 18th
John Sherffius
Aug 18th
“If right wing Republicans don’t want to be stereotyped as...”
— Bruce Droppings
— Bruce Droppings
Aug 18th
Squandered Opportunity
Aug 18th
bartcop.com
Aug 18th
A Christian Creed on Health-Care Reform
Aug 18th
“Our government doesn’t know the difference between an...”
— blog maverick
— blog maverick
Aug 18th
“Giving up on the public option might be expedient. But we...”
— Eugene Robinson
— Eugene Robinson
Aug 18th
Death is Cheap
Aug 18th
“In other words, Scalia’s Constitution does not guarantee a...”
— A Culture of Death
— A Culture of Death
Aug 18th
Commanding Military Drones
Aug 18th
Tom Tomorrow
Aug 18th
“I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him...”
— Matt Taibbi
— Matt Taibbi
Aug 18th
“It’s often said that visiting a developing country is like...”
— Aaron Swartz
— Aaron Swartz
Aug 18th
“The elite universities disdain honest intellectual inquiry,...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 17th
Steve Benson
Aug 17th
“Be careful, too, of the so-called science of economics....”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Aug 17th
“Who are we, as a people? What are our values? Do we take...”
— The Left Coaster
— The Left Coaster
Aug 17th
Steve Sack
Aug 17th
“Isn’t a clear sign of sheer military and political...”
— Michael Scheuer
— Michael Scheuer
Aug 17th
The Most Powerful Force in the World
Aug 17th
Mad Men Yourself
Aug 17th
Washington Times Hypocritical Obama-Nazi Slur
Aug 17th
David Fitzsimmons
Aug 17th
“For much of our history, the Jeffersonian hostility to an...”
— Joseph J. Ellis
— Joseph J. Ellis
Aug 17th
Top ten false claims being made by...
Aug 17th
Jeff Danziger
Aug 17th
The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry...
Aug 17th
“It’s been 97 years since Teddy Roosevelt ran for a third...”
— daggatt
— daggatt
Aug 17th
Health reform made simple
Aug 17th
The Latest on Inequality
Aug 17th
“It is interesting that when businessmen speak of the...”
— Remember When Health Insurance...
— Remember When Health Insurance...
Aug 17th
“Our health care system is something like an old and slowly...”
— The Mahablog
— The Mahablog
Aug 16th
Two-Party Fail
Aug 16th
Hullabaloo
Aug 16th
“Within the next generation I believe that the world’s...”
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
Aug 16th
SPLC Report: Return of the Militias
Aug 16th
“Mass organization may just have been a twentieth century...”
— Douglas Rushkoff
— Douglas Rushkoff
Aug 16th
Rob Rogers
Aug 16th
At free clinic, scenes from the Third World
Aug 16th
“Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada as a...”
— Neil Postman
— Neil Postman
Aug 16th
Obama has 6-month approval of 63 percent
Aug 16th
The GOP's Misplaced Rage
Aug 16th
“Facts are deaf, deaf as an adder, to the clamor of the...”
— John Adams
— John Adams
Aug 16th
Why We Need Health Care Reform
Aug 16th
David Fitzsimmons
Aug 15th
Willfully ignorant vs. aggressively skeptical
Aug 15th
“It used to be different. You never heard the late Walter...”
— Rick Perlstein
— Rick Perlstein
Aug 15th
The Drones Take Over
Aug 15th
“An image-based culture communicates through narratives,...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 15th
The Real Housewives of Goldman Sachs
Aug 14th
Health care and the Christian tradition
Aug 14th
bartcop.com
Aug 14th
Holocaust: The Ignored Reality
Aug 14th
“But here’s my question: Since when is it conservative...”
— Dr. Andrew Weil
— Dr. Andrew Weil
Aug 14th
A Socialist Attends a Town Hall Health Care...
Aug 14th
“As indicated in the germ form theory of Oekonux, with which...”
— Dreaming of a peer to peer...
— Dreaming of a peer to peer...
Aug 14th
Confimation bias in dense networks: Or why...
Aug 14th
Time-Traveling for Dummies
Aug 14th
“But I like to think of the decline differently. I like to...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 14th
How to Remember People’s Names in a SNAP
Aug 14th
“These “town meetings” are really nothing but...”
— Dave Lindorff
— Dave Lindorff
Aug 14th
US Economic Myths Bite the Dust
Aug 14th
Scoring Truthfulness in the Health Care Debate
Aug 14th
“Let me say that I believe the new atheists do the side of...”
— Why I Think the New Atheists...
— Why I Think the New Atheists...
Aug 14th
For Media, ‘Class War’ Has Wealthy Victims
Aug 14th
“Sure enough, President Obama is now facing the same kind of...”
— Paul Krugman
— Paul Krugman
Aug 14th
The Town Hall You Didn't See
Aug 14th
Andy Singer
Aug 14th
“The technology of the Internet, like the earlier...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 14th
“There is no business in America that makes more money than...”
— soupsoup (via caraobrien)
— soupsoup (via caraobrien)
Aug 13th
Man sentenced to community service for...
Aug 13th
The Overton Window, Illustrated
Aug 13th
The “Ic” Factor
Aug 13th
“Really? Twitter can keep people from taking machetes to...”
— The New Atlantis
— The New Atlantis
Aug 13th
bartcop.com
Aug 13th
“Why isn’t the death penalty applied to death itself? The...”
— Eduardo Galeano
— Eduardo Galeano
Aug 13th
Double Dose: Hypocrisy AND Idiocy
Aug 13th
“Boredom is a decision we make, not something happens to us....”
— JOLLYBLOGGER
— JOLLYBLOGGER
Aug 13th
Meet the Birthers
Aug 13th
“The American people did not vote for...”
— Drew Westen
— Drew Westen
Aug 13th
Socialized Medicine: Only 13.3% of Americans...
Aug 13th
“The administration has been trying to sell health care...”
— Wrong Message
— Wrong Message
Aug 13th
“It’s a great disappointment that the White House not...”
— Former U.S. Attorney Condemns...
— Former U.S. Attorney Condemns...
Aug 13th
A comprehensive mind map of mind mapping...
Aug 13th
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your...”
— Gandhi
— Gandhi
Aug 13th
“The Big Pharma kingpins did not actually agree to cut their...”
— Greg Palast
— Greg Palast
Aug 13th
Boycott Whole Foods
Aug 13th
David Fitzsimmons
Aug 12th
“Human beings become a commodity in celebrity culture. They...”
— Chris Hedges
— Chris Hedges
Aug 12th