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“Perform this mind experiment. If Obama had declared war in...”
— Roger Ebert (via...

Oct 1st

The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus

Oct 1st

Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that...

Oct 1st

Americans Support A Public Option

Oct 1st

“If Democrats really do lose the House next year (about which...”
— Kevin Drum

Oct 1st

Torture in Bagram and Guantánamo: The...

Oct 1st

Assessing the GOP brand

Oct 1st

The Ten Commandments of Cancer Prevention

Oct 1st

My Friends on Facebook

Oct 1st

“That’s why I was so surprised when Barack Obama chose him to...”
— Cornel West

Oct 1st

“What is to be done? Our revered Tolstoy asked this question,...”
— Alice Walker

Oct 1st

“I’m not exactly sure about how many of the various...”
— The Programmer’s Paradox

Oct 1st

GOP Opposition To Health Bill Goes Beyond...

Oct 1st

“Just because someone offers you a lift, doesn’t mean...”
— Seth Godin

Oct 1st

“The one economist who has emerged from the current troubles...”
— Harold Meyerson

Oct 1st

Matt Bors

Oct 1st

“…the truth is only so many people can stand on top of a...”
— Michael Moore

Sep 30th

“Massachusetts mandated that everyone buy health insurance....”
— Dr. Andy Coates

Sep 30th

Adopt a Liberal

Sep 30th

xkcd

Sep 30th

Newsmax Columnist: Military Coup May Be...

Sep 30th

American dreams

Sep 30th

“David [Brooks] points out, correctly, that something changed...”
— Paul Krugman

Sep 30th

nakedpastor

Sep 30th

“Libraries as a physical place to go, I think will continue....”
— Brewster Kahle

Sep 30th

“…I wouldn’t mind hearing about values from our current...”
— Drew Westen

Sep 30th

The Cost of Empire

Sep 30th

On Roman Polanski

It utterly sickens me to read (have not listened to or watched any news since his arrest in Zurich)...

Sep 30th

ACORN Versus The Unification Movement

Sep 30th

“In his new movie, Michael Moore calls capitalism evil and...”
— The Whole Point Of Capitalism

Sep 29th

David Fitzsimmons

Sep 29th

“What conservative critics ignore and what Andrew only...”
— Eunomia

Sep 29th

Contraception fights global warming

Sep 29th

A History of Storage Cost

Sep 29th

Why Real Health Care Reform Is Impossible

Sep 29th

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of...”
— Friedrich Nietzche

Sep 29th

Rob Rogers

Sep 29th

China seeks big stake in Nigerian oil

Sep 29th

“So here is the problem I have with the Honduras situation....”
— OrthoCuban

Sep 29th

Tom Tomorrow

Sep 29th

The Impact of Inequality

Sep 29th

“The real truth is that, as weird as they are, rumors and...”
— One man’s rumor is...

Sep 29th

bartcop.com

Sep 28th

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people...”
— Kurt Vonnegut

Sep 28th

“Charity gives every man a title to so much out of...”
— John Locke

Sep 28th

“But materialism is deeply and profoundly threatening to many...”
— Jonathan Haidt

Sep 28th

Mr. Fish

Sep 28th

Second Bill of Rights

Sep 28th

“This emptiness of language is a gift to demagogues and the...”
— Chris Hedges

Sep 28th

Ass Bomber

Sep 28th

“According to the Brits, one US satellite, Saudi Arabia, will...”
— Saudis to Cooperate in...

Sep 28th

August J. Pollak

Sep 28th

How to Read a Column

Sep 28th

“Not to crunch too many metaphors right here at the top, but...”
— James Howard Kunstler

Sep 28th

“The question here, really, is what have we done to...”
— Arundhati Roy

Sep 27th

“In Iraq and Afghanistan, American warfare is sometimes waged...”
— Balkinization

Sep 27th

“…the main difference between the Left and the Right lying in...”
— After the Future

Sep 27th

Mobile marvels

Sep 27th

“When I listen to the sounds of greed, violence, rape,...”
— Henri Nouwen

Sep 27th

“Everyone knows health insurance cannot continue to operate...”
— Prometheus 6

Sep 27th

Fisking Scientific American on Oil

Sep 27th

“Sometimes, when I drive into the parking lot of multiplex...”
— Fadeout at the Box Office: The...

Sep 27th

“Bobby, if you weren’t my son, I’d hug you.”
— The King (of the Hill) is Dead...

Sep 26th

Single Family Home Prices, Inflation Adjusted (1970-2009)

Sep 26th

“The dynamics of “violence begets violence” are simple and...”
— Barry Clemson

Sep 26th

“Obama is not only not a socialist, he’s not even a...”
— Robert Jensen

Sep 26th

“More Americans die of lack of health insurance than...”
— Medicare for All: Yes We Can

Sep 26th

The Death of the Newspaper

Sep 26th

The “PATRIOT” Act and Your Local Pharmacy

Sep 26th

“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history....”
— Richard Stallman

Sep 26th

The Far Left Side

Sep 25th

“The absolute best way to speak to complete idiots is, of...”
— How to talk to complete idiots

Sep 25th

Hate in the Media

Sep 25th

Mike Luckovich

Sep 25th

Memristor minds: The future of artificial...

Sep 25th

“The noive of doze guys!  The Nazis burned Darwin’s Origin of...”
— David Brin

Sep 25th

“Very few people take the Ten Commandments literally.  We...”
—  The Problem with the Ten...

Sep 25th

“The provocative conclusion of this analysis is that people...”
— Stop Denigrating Government:...

Sep 25th

Glue Sniffers = death threats to elementary...

Sep 25th

“Paramilitary squads now operating openly in the United...”
— Men who are not police force a...

Sep 25th

The Four Horsemen send their regrets

Sep 25th

Watch

Chilling Arrest at G-20

Sep 25th

Fox News Morphs Into Propaganda Machine

Sep 25th

bartcop.com

Sep 25th

Modern Slavery, Modern Abolitionists

Sep 25th

“The great power and theological depth of the Scripture is...”
— The Bible isn’t a...

Sep 25th

“The true practice of justice thus moves away from...”
— Julie Clawson

Sep 25th

Not guilty verdict for officer in excessive...

Sep 25th

“There is no question that foreign policy thinking in America...”
— Heretical Ideas

Sep 24th

Phoenix New Times Best of Phoenix 2009

Sep 24th

“Why is the loss of civility so troubling?  The word...”
— Rich Nathan

Sep 24th

Mike Keefe

Sep 24th

“The problem is that we are in this awful in-between phase of...”
— The problem with the economy:...

Sep 24th

Anti-ACORN Crusade Backfires In Irony

Sep 24th

“Here’s what government is about in a democracy....”
— George Lakoff

Sep 24th

“So those are Keynes’ prescriptions for a successful economy:...”
— Aaron Swartz

Sep 24th

They don't call it, 'Cracker Barrel' for...

Sep 24th

Tom Toles

Sep 24th

Seth Godin Tries Out Brandjacking

Sep 24th

“An example of this imperial system is the Indian Ocean...”
— Garry Wills

Sep 24th

“Education either functions as an instrument which is used to...”
— Paulo Freire (via...

Sep 24th

Watch

Glenn Beck Throws A Frog Into Boiling Water?

Sep 24th

Fake Video Can Convince Witnesses to Give...

Sep 24th

Mike Luckovich

Sep 24th

“I think a bad thing is going to happen, right? And it’s...”
— Clay Shirky

Sep 23rd

GOP Favors Public Option For Property, Not...

Sep 23rd

Troubletown

Sep 23rd

Torture Doesn’t Work, Neurobiologist Says

Sep 23rd

“After college and a few years in Austin, I returned to the...”
— It’s an Ugly Time in America

Sep 23rd

All Time Controversial Magazine Covers

Sep 23rd

“The real story is that millions of Americans don’t consider...”
— Rick Perlstein

Sep 23rd

“When I threw the shoe in the face of the criminal, George...”
—  Why I threw the shoe (via...

Sep 23rd

Bill Day

Sep 23rd

When Sears was a startup

Sep 23rd

“Far more interesting than Beck himself is the increasingly...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 23rd

“Ralph Nader may look like a democrat, smell like a populist,...”
— Ralph Nader & the...

Sep 23rd

David Fitzsimmons

Sep 23rd

“The scientific data suggest two strategies that are,...”
— Drew Westen

Sep 23rd

Immortality only 20 years away

Sep 22nd

“To be an Athenian is to hold knowledge and, especially the...”
— Neil Postman

Sep 22nd

Watch

Protect Insurance Companies (via preetalina)

Sep 22nd

Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense...

Sep 22nd

Watch

Did You Know 4.0

Sep 22nd

Watch

Evgeny Morozov: Is the Internet what Orwell feared?

Sep 22nd

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events;...”
— Eleanor Roosevelt (via...

Sep 22nd

Rob Rogers

Sep 22nd

H.G. Wells Predictions Ring True, 143 Years...

Sep 22nd

“People no longer travel on horseback but some go to a riding...”
—  Umberto Eco

Sep 22nd

Wondermark

Sep 22nd

“Historian John Naughton describes the Internet as an attempt...”
— Julius Genachowski

Sep 22nd

David Gregory (Among Others) is Full of Sh#t

Sep 22nd

“The founders of this nation knew just what they were doing...”
— NYTimes.com

Sep 22nd

“So how can the Dow be flirting with 10,000 when consumers,...”
— Robert Reich

Sep 22nd

Monte Wolverton

Sep 22nd

Did California police use a Taser on an...

Sep 22nd

Before we go further, can we check on how the...

Sep 22nd

Matt Bors

Sep 22nd

“It’s hard to overstate how aberrational — one...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 21st

“I have asked on several occasions and have never had an...”
— Paul Craig Roberts

Sep 21st

Fan Jianping

Sep 21st

Why Socialism?

Sep 21st

Great FCC stand on "net neutrality"

Sep 21st

“There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of...”
— Irving Kristol (via...

Sep 21st

Americans’ Support for the Death Penalty, 1937-2007

Sep 21st

“Ronald Reagan, for example, could not have been president...”
— Neil Postman

Sep 21st

September 21 is Peace Day

Sep 21st

via (politicsprettygirlsphotography, newleft, abcsoupdot)

Sep 21st

“Our global economy, like our political system, has been...”
— Chris Hedges

Sep 21st

“The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish and when the...”
— Henri Nouwen

Sep 21st

Polls find that a super majority of...

Sep 21st

“The banking fiasco still underway is at once a proxy for the...”
— James Howard Kunstler

Sep 21st

“You know, I’m amused. I can’t tell you how many foreign...”
— President Obama

Sep 21st

“The bottom line is this: if the same standard used to...”
— Time to Get Real About the...

Sep 21st

Jeff Danziger

Sep 20th

A Plugged-In World, With a Hunger for...

Sep 20th

“And so, interestingly, the right is increasingly cleaving to...”
— Tim Wise

Sep 20th

“The interfering politicans, the would-be Nannies, do-gooders...”
— There is a fury and and...

Sep 20th

Worst Think-Tank Fellows of All Time: Kevin...

Sep 20th

bartcop.com

Sep 19th

Canadian Health Care, Even With Queues, Bests...

Sep 19th

“Historically, when the new communication device comes out,...”
— Is the Internet melting our...

Sep 19th

Exclusive Interview with Sibel Edmonds

Sep 19th

The Price of Not Having Medicare for All

Sep 19th

“…I got an email blast from MoveOn.org this morning inviting...”
— Doug Henwood

Sep 19th

On Why The Church in America Cannot Speak...

Sep 19th

Acorn: the bigger picture

Sep 18th

“What about iTunes? Doesn’t that show people will pay...”
— Paul Graham (via...

Sep 18th

Fox runs wild with "not scientific" IBD poll

Sep 18th

Let Us Mourn The Death Of Civility

Sep 18th

“…we’ve got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in...”
— Grace Lee Boggs

Sep 18th

Wingnut Values On Parade

Sep 18th

Rob Rogers

Sep 18th

Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of...

Sep 18th

“American hospitals and doctors are paid for the amount of...”
— The God in the Machine...

Sep 18th

Jimmy Carter, True Son of the South, Hits...

Sep 18th

“Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to him...”
— On Drowning One’s...

Sep 18th

“85-year-old Jimmy Carter knows the South and our country....”
— Clarence B. Jones

Sep 18th

In defense of ACORN

Sep 18th

“Today we can draw on the cumulative historical experience of...”
— Walter Wink

Sep 18th

“The liberal and conservative movements ARE fundamentally...”
— David Brin

Sep 18th

EFF Supports JUSTICE Bill to Reform the USA...

Sep 18th

“I would rather have a prostate exam on live television by a...”
— George Clooney (via...

Sep 17th

“I think the Republicans are holding on to these shock troops...”
— Tenured Radical

Sep 17th

Tumblr Bookmarklet Bug Log, September...

Tumblr is so incredibly awesome I am a bit disinclined to report any minor annoyances with such a...

Sep 17th

“But Time isn’t allowed to critique right-wing claims...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 17th

Why Obama's Decision to Scrap the Proposed...

Sep 17th

“It is sometimes difficult for progressives to understand...”
— David Korten

Sep 17th

“…the Fox-News/Glenn-Beck/Rush-Limbaugh leadership trains its...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 17th

Jeff Darcy

Sep 17th

How to read articles about health and...

Sep 17th

“I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role...”
— Bill Cosby

Sep 17th

Why You Can’t Get a Good Phone With Verizon

Sep 17th

“There they were, I was trying them on. They were fantastic....”
— Alice Walker

Sep 17th

Pat Bagley

Sep 17th

“On his deathbed not too many years ago, a relative of mine...”
—  Rush Limbaugh hits racial...

Sep 17th

“A lot of verbage gets thrown around about the Bible  (its...”
— Claims about the Bible Work...

Sep 17th

“I now think of writing as a privilege—as a gift that’s...”
— Larry Gelbart

Sep 17th

“So why, in a country that professes to value the importance...”
— Kenneth C. Davis (via...

Sep 16th

Fox News Punked By ACORN

Sep 16th

“The stated objections of Joe Wilson’s son to...”
— Phil Nugent

Sep 16th

The Insurance Industry Profit Protection and...

Sep 16th

“It’s easy to have political views - that’s what...”
— Jesus for President

Sep 16th

Watch

Fox News vs. Tea Parties

Sep 16th

Jeff Danziger

Sep 16th

“While Beck and his ilk want to portray diversity and...”
— Timothy Karr

Sep 16th

“Conservative political policies have been built around the...”
— Mike Papantonio

Sep 16th

Is Happiness Catching?

Sep 16th

What Sort of Exercise Can Make You Smarter?

Sep 16th

“But the momentum of accumulating powers in the executive is...”
— Gary Wills

Sep 16th

Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life

Sep 16th

“Hamid Karzai has stolen the election. Now the question is...”
— Jimmy Carter

Sep 15th

Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice

Sep 15th

M. Wuerker (via think4yourself)

Sep 15th

World’s Oldest Person Gertrude Baines Dies at...

Sep 15th

“America’s prosperity did not come from God, rather it was...”
— the Jesus Manifesto

Sep 15th

Creepy Job Postings on Craigslist

Sep 15th

Wealthcare

Sep 15th

“To summarize, socialism in its fundamental form means...”
— HowStuffWorks

Sep 15th

Machine rebellion begins: Killer robot...

Sep 15th

Jeff Danziger

Sep 15th

The Age of Empathy

Sep 15th

“During my 20 years in corporate communications and public...”
— Wendell Potter

Sep 15th

“I would have a similar answer to his question about why Jews...”
— Scott Horton

Sep 15th

Doctors Support the Public Option

Sep 15th

How Apple could make the newly cheaper Apple...

Sep 15th

“As a Christian, my preference for this economic and social...”
— Thanks Glenn Beck - This...

Sep 15th

“What we measure affects what we do. If we have the wrong...”
— Joseph Stiglitz (via...

Sep 15th

Why capitalism fails

Sep 15th

Monte Wolverton

Sep 15th

“Why do so many people confuse capitalism and markets?...”
— Seeing the Forest

Sep 15th

Iraq's freedoms under threat: Could a police...

Sep 15th

The Evolution of Apple Ads

Sep 15th

Reblog Golden Rule

danielholter: Hey, AZspot, glad you liked the vid… but why not reblog from myself or...

Sep 14th

“Today, right-wingers profess their hatred of our government....”
— daggatt

Sep 14th

Watch

The Unauthorized 9.12 Teabagger Tour

Sep 14th

“This sort of lunatic paranoia—touched with populism,...”
— Obama, the Republicans, and...

Sep 14th

“What’s really happening with these protests is that...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 14th

How to become the local Computer Guy

Sep 14th

“The transportation system is especially maddening,...”
— Rogue Columnist

Sep 14th

“There is no more a path from evolution to eugenics or...”
— Science and the Sacred

Sep 14th

“Unfair competition led to the idea of protecting our...”
— Myths of Protectionism:...

Sep 14th

Closing The Book On The Bush Legacy

Sep 14th

“The right-wing accusations against Barack Obama are true. He...”
— Chris Hedges

Sep 14th

The hierarchy of success

Sep 14th

“Some theorists out there say that economy follows mood, not...”
— James Howard Kunstler

Sep 14th

“The most beloved South Carolina politician of the more...”
— Is There Something in the...

Sep 14th

Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting...

Sep 14th

Jeff Danziger

Sep 13th

The Life and Death of Online Communities

Sep 13th

“Culture War is the greatest overall treason committed...”
— David Brin

Sep 13th

Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for...

Sep 13th

“A friend pointed out to me the other day that the market...”
— Doug Henwood

Sep 13th

Rob Rogers

Sep 13th

The Body Count at Home

Sep 13th

“Yet the story of how the dream became a reality is not one...”
— Why the New American Real...

Sep 13th

“Who are Glenn Beck’s foot soldiers? In effect what we...”
— Frank Schaeffer

Sep 13th

Rachel Maddow & The Mythical Rational Right

Sep 13th

“President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the birth of a...”
— Tyler Cowen

Sep 13th

Victims' families tell their stories...

Sep 13th

South Carolina: Legendary Incivility

Sep 13th

“The forced resignation of Van Jones demonstrates the lack of...”
— Michael Lerner

Sep 13th

The Confederacy has risen...

Sep 13th

“We know that Medicare has worked well for half a century for...”
— George S. McGovern

Sep 12th

“2010 will be an interesting test of the future viability of...”
— Does the GOP Have a Future?

Sep 12th

Glenn Beck Proposes Cap on Nation's IQ

Sep 12th

Believe It or Not

Sep 12th

“When the cross becomes our shield and sword instead of a...”
— Julie Clawson

Sep 12th

Billionaires for Wealthcare

Sep 12th

Socialism is coming!

Sep 12th

“…I have very mixed feelings about the protests of...”
— Glenn Greenwald

Sep 12th

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not...”
— George Orwell

Sep 12th

“Bestiality. Glory holes. Circuit parties. Gay orgies. Eating...”
— Did Family Guy cause 179,997...

Sep 12th

Matt Bors

Sep 11th

“The Bush administration placed more emphasis on spinning the...”
— Jon Krakauer

Sep 11th

Arctic May Be Changed Forever

Sep 11th

“On the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New...”
— Gene Healy

Sep 11th

…wasn't about impact; it was about...

leosoup: I am growing increasingly convinced that if everyone of these kids burning with passion to...

Sep 11th

“I am growing increasingly convinced that if everyone of...”
— Phil Vischer

Sep 11th

At Glenn Beck's Call

Sep 11th

Rob Rogers

Sep 11th

Heritage Foundation Blames Poverty On Air...

Sep 11th

“Teaching people not only impacts the market, it changes the...”
— Seth Godin

Sep 11th

Baby Bush: The Worst President in History?

Sep 11th

xkcd

Sep 11th

In Wal-Mart's Image

Sep 11th

“You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11...”
— Glenn Beck

Sep 11th

For the American family, the 2000s have been...

Sep 11th

“Time for a reality check. Illegal immigrants are here. They...”
— Immigrants, Health Care and...

Sep 11th

“The only dream worth having … is to dream that you...”
— Arundhati Roy

Sep 11th

David Fitzsimmons

Sep 11th

“After the 9/11 storm struck, the affected civilians in New...”
— How to Remember 9/11

Sep 11th

“The story of the two Joe Wilsons and how they were treated...”
— Juan Cole

Sep 11th

Rainer Hachfeld

Sep 11th

“Once upon a time in Wilson’s native South Carolina,...”
— Inside the mind of Joe Wilson

Sep 11th

Something I don't Understand About...

Sep 11th

Steve Benson

Sep 10th

Wilson's Outburst Merely a Peep

Sep 10th

“There is a widely observed phenomenon that highly unequal...”
— Dalton Conley

Sep 10th

America's irrational healthcare status quo

Sep 10th

“President Obama called for mandates. Companies will have to...”
— Valerie Elverton Dixon

Sep 10th