Stop Falling For This Idiot!
I will give Donald Trump $1,000 if his big announcement tomorrow is that he's taking over as head of the Spokane NAACP office. He has the same chance of making that happen as of becoming president.
Shame On You, ABC Radio
Shame on ABC Radio for leading its Noon CT newscast today with the conspiracy theorists in Texas who believe that upcoming military exercises by the Pentagon are part of a plan to takeover their state and take away their guns. The anchor even included audio of an...
Gay Marriage at the Supreme Court
The best insight I've seen into what happened yesterday at the Supreme Court's hearing about same-sex marriage comes from Slate's terrific judicial correspondent, Dahlia Lithwick. She sums up the most important points in this video: If you'd like to listen to the...
The Most Corrupt City In The World
If you ever wonder how the sleazy underbelly of congressional lobbying operates, read this piece about the congressman who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and is sleeping with a woman who lobbies on behalf of the airline industry. Whatever...
Elections Where Nobody Votes
Last Tuesday was Election Day in St. Louis, and -- with the exception of Ferguson, where two African-Americans were elected to the city council, giving it a racial balance of three blacks and three whites -- no one really cared. I count myself among them. Frankly, I...
Picture Of The Day
Missi Pyle as a Hillary spokeswoman answering questions from the press corps. Wait for it...
Debunking Conservative Lies About Jobs
Four years ago, I wrote a piece called The Job Creation Myth, in which I explained that jobs are not created by reducing taxes on the wealthy, that "trickle-down economics" has been repeatedly debunked, and that increasing the minimum wage and raising taxes on the...
Andrew Sullivan and Jeff Greenfield
Andrew Sullivan is about as close as we get to a public intellectual in the United States. Although I don't agree with him on all issues, I still absorbed as much of his writing as I could while he published The Dish. He gave up that online publication a few months...