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Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 12:22 pm
"He has some bone to pick with PBO that he isn't brave enough to divulge." True, but it's not just him. Some on the Left (not that GG is o...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 11:25 am
GG can't help himself. He will do/say/write any lie to cast PBO in a negative light, even if he knows instinctively that it's BS. IMO, his...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 11:21 am
Greenwald doesn't care how much of a racist/bigot Paul is proven to be. He has an irrational hatred for POTUS. Wonder why?Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 9:20 am
Glenn Greenwald needs to get off the Ron Paul/Koch/Libertarian teet. Hasn't he read the Anonymous "Ron Paul Hearts Neo-Nazis at Home and Abr...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 8:10 am
Let's not forget Glenn's mindset in the aftermath of 9/11, the very attack that directly led to the AUMF: "This is not to say that I was no...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 7:41 am
As a queer myself, I can bitch about GG. This whiney emoprog needs to get over herself. 'She' sits down in her ivory tower in Brazil with he...Re: Morning Awful: Alabama’s War on Education
02/03/12 4:39 am
"Teaching is a calling, so you shouldn't be in it for the money" -- every time I hear this BS, I want to gag. Teaching is a profession, and ...Re: Morning Awful: Alabama’s War on Education
02/03/12 3:01 am
Every time I'm around my AL kin, I begin to clearly understand how people like this get elected. Shudder.Re: NPR’s This American Life in Alabama
01/31/12 12:48 pm
#1stAL on the forefront with our American Life...Re: Scary Stupid Headupassitis
01/31/12 8:18 am
Are you as weary as I am of the numbskulls who keep bleating out the same tired platitude: "The lesser of two evils is still evil?" Yeah we...
Category Archives: mainstream media
Wall Street Uprising Is Not A Main Street Production
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, held teach-ins, engaged in discussion and debate and in some instances embarked … Continue reading
Forget Truth, We Want Controversy
One 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 gasoline-soaked mud under his truck. It’s not … Continue reading
The Bunning Breakdown
The 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 press, even ridicule — from … Continue reading
Brangelina
I 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 of Brad Pitt … Continue reading
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a White Bronco!
Posted 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 blimp, and reported with very little skepticism about the 6 year old … Continue reading
Mad Money
The 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 start in calling this … Continue reading
