Category Archives: mainstream media

Morning Awful: Liar

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Liar”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail “Hunter,” a pseudonymous DailyKos writer, asks the impolitic question of our age. Why, with conservatism in full collapse and the right wing inmates running a Republican asylum, does the Fourth Estate have such a … Continue reading →

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Wall Street Uprising Is Not A Main Street Production

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Wall Street Uprising Is Not A Main Street Production”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The New York Times reported on events in the city this weekend: Throughout the afternoon hundreds of demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas in Lower Manhattan. They milled, … Continue reading →

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Forget Truth, We Want Controversy

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Forget Truth, We Want Controversy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailOne of my friends in the community of mountaintop removal activism found a hole in his gas tank this weekend. Someone had taken a drill to the plastic, leaving a large puddle of … Continue reading →

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The Bunning Breakdown

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “The Bunning Breakdown”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe Jim Bunning episode seems to have been a bridge too far even for Republicans. Harry Reid essentially left the situation to Mitch McConnell, the man who’d forced Bunning into retirement. Awkward! Faced with bad … Continue reading →

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Brangelina

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Brangelina”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI never, ever talk about celebrity culture in this blog. Some friends tell me that’s a shortcoming, but I think of it as my own personal rejection of the Huffington Post formula. Nevertheless, I admit the news … Continue reading →

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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a White Bronco!

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a White Bronco!”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailPosted by MM Thursday, all of America was distracted by a bright, shiny object. For two hours, every major news source followed the slow progress of a homemade … Continue reading →

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Mad Money

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Mad Money”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe story of our ongoing financial disaster is an epic global labyrinth. There are so many moving parts to the meltdown that it still hasn’t been given a name. Paul Krugman may have gotten a head … Continue reading →