Mwahahahahahahahahaha. It's just as you always suspected.  Yes, we peace-loving, granola-eating, dirty effing hippies are really Satanists — and we're not afraid to prove it. Just look at the picture above.  Look at the poor widdle Peeps, their food-coloring eyes glistening with fear as they contemplate their imminent doom in a hideous arcane ritual. They're [...]

Best War Ever Today we bring you Book Salon, Double Barreled:  after this edition of Book Salon, we bring you a Special Feature of Marcy Wheeler's new book, Anatomy of Deception, which chronicles the things you need to know about the Libby trial and the outing of a spy by this administration, compromising national security [...]

Know much about dancing bears? These poor creatures are held in captivity and all but starved to death. Their noses and palates are pierced clean through, then muzzles and chains are attached. And when their masters yank those chains? The bears dance, just to make the excruciating pain stop. Thankfully, this horrific cruelty has been outlawed in [...]

Last night, I found myself in a private dining room at an upscale San Francisco eatery with four Democratic funding luminaries: a Bay Area venture capitalist, a honcho from an online auction site that shall remain nameless, a member of the Democracy Alliance and a Bay Area developer. I was, by the way, looking very forward to [...]

Update: Please use the donation link to the right of this post. JN  Regard the current conventional wisdom about what has become of media coverage of PlameGate. These would be the pearls of one Rem Reider from the American Journalism Review: There are many ways to characterize the media’s response to the news that former Deputy [...]

  I have been evangelizing for the past couple of years about the need for progressive books to do well in not just the marketplace of ideas–but in the damn marketplace itself. On the left, we seemed to have a strange aversion to buying, supporting and promoting books, and films, because somehow these activities are perceived to have the stink of [...]

TeddySanFran got a letter from NARAL that I thought was worth sharing: Dear (TeddySanFran), Thank you for contacting us about the Senate race in Connecticut. As you know, NARAL Pro-Choice America has endorsed Sen. Lieberman in that race. As a nonpartisan organization, we support pro-choice elected officials, regardless of party affiliation. Therefore, our endorsement stands, [...]

(guest post by Taylor Marsh) I had a completely different post planned, but on the news of Pennsylvania’s worst flooding in 200 years, and flood warnings for upstate New York, as well as my own environmental tragedy last night, I decided to share with you something Al Gore said to a bunch of progressive bloggers [...]

Two labor issues have been extensively covered over the past weeks: the challenges facing the United Auto Workers (as well as industrial unions in general), and the promise offered by an organizing victory among janitors at the University of Miami. How are these two stories connected? On the down side, the recent convention of the United [...]

There was a moment on Saturday, as I was headed down the escalator in the Washington Convention Center, when I suddenly felt dizzy and my hands started to sweat. My heart beat fast and hard, like it might bust out of my chest. Pure panic mode. I promise that it was not just the after [...]