Friendship challenges inequality. It’s time friendship was rescued from private life and returned to the public sphere. We can then become what the authoritarians are afraid of.

Howdy folks, some of you may know me from hanging around FDL for a while under the name finifinito. Some may remember me as Donita Sparks’ technician for her The Spin I’m In weekly columns on FDL from July of 2006 until last summer. Others may know me from DailyKos, Blue Indiana, The Roots Project, the 2008 Dodd Squad or from other places online.

In this week’s Got Docs? we take a look at ‘What’s Organic about Organic?’, a new film by Shelley Rogers. She follows around activists, scientists, and most importantly, farmers, as they look at the issues involved in ‘being organic’.

Is Crazy Pete Hoekstra named in Chip Pickering’s chronicle of his hypocritical affair?

Sen. Kent Conrad, Sen. Jim DeMint, David Axelrod, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Rep. Jim Cooper, Douglas Brinkley, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Prof. Nouriel Roubini, Mort Zuckerman, Niall Ferguson, Robert Gibbs, Sen. Jon Kyl, Hillary Clinton.

Crazy Mixed Up Pup. This Universal Studio cartoon was released February 14, 1955. Written and directed by Tex Avery.  Produced by Walter Lantz.  Animated by Laverne Harding, Don Patterson, and Ray Abrams.  Music by Clarence Wheeler.  Set design by Raymond Jacobs.

What’s on your mind?

The GOP says Obama wants to kill your grandma. I hate these fuckers.

Things I learned from a teabagger.

How could anyone not want to go to this absolutely lulz-filled weekend of wingnuts, whackjobs, blowhard, bloviators, bigots, hypocrites, high-horsed, narrow-minded numbskulls, known as the Values Voter Summit? It’s a tea party on acid, beyond Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Oh won’t someone send me, pleeeeeease?

Some stories are more revelatory than others. They expose the truth hidden behind rhetoric and spin.

Such is the nature of a story I stumbled upon some weeks ago, and which I have written up in an investigatory piece at The Public Record. It concerns the incarceration of a U.S. citizen by the military, held without charges for approximately 18 months, and forced after almost a month of 12-19 hour a