10 September 2007

Swiftboated Again

Ring the bell and the Rightie attack dogs drool.
In a week characterized by some of the finest slurs lovingly hand-crafted by the ugliest, most racist, most hate-filled minds on the planet, they outdid themselves this morning.
MoveOn dot Org ran a full page ad in the New York Times today. The headline (the attention grabber): “General [...]

10 September 2007

The Monsters Are Due on Pennsylvania Avenue

Back in the olden days (before video games, children) when TV was black and white, and ACTUAL writers wrote actual scripts that had actual meaning, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone was able to nail a lot of uncomfortable truths about American life that couldn’t be told in any other way than by fable, with Serling [...]