The Boy Scouts have recently announced that they will uphold their decision to not allow gays join their organization.  I’d like to start by saying they should really reconsider their uniforms if they don’t want it to look like there are gays among their ranks.  While it’s true that they are a private organization and [...]

“If you consider the great journalists in history, you don’t see too many objective journalists on that list.  H. L. Mencken was not objective.  Mike Royko, who just died.  I. F. Stone was not objective.  Mark Twain was not objective.  I don’t quite understand this worship of objectivity in journalism.  Now, just flat-out lying is [...]

My fellow Americans, Now more than ever our government needs our help.  For centuries we have believed democracy to be the best form of government, without ever experiencing true democracy.  Greed and corruption have infiltrated our government, and now Democrats and Republicans have become so hopelessly opposed and unwilling to work together that nothing is [...]

When he called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute, Rush Limbaugh detonated a political H-bomb. As effects of the bomb tore through the public sphere, the fallout drifted and settled on national discourse, encouraging the suppression of free speech. In fact, men and women of all political ideologies embrace this new [...]

In public discourse, when questions of separation of church and state arise, the Declaration of Independence is inevitably drawn into the conversation. This document, we’re told, includes overtly religious language, therefore helping to establish America as a Christian nation.  “The Declaration of Independence is the official and unequivocal recognition by the American people of our belief and [...]

I was really looking forward to Super Tuesday this year, more so than I ever have, because I thought I’d have $100 to play with on the Intrade markets.  Well, things don’t always go as planned, and sometimes Rick Santorum shows up in Colorado ready to rape you.  Instead of skipping class to watch every [...]

How Lack of Definition and Political Infighting Threatens American Civil Liberties On New Year’s Eve 2011, as people around the world celebrated the arrival of a new year, President Obama signed an appropriations bill into law to little fanfare. The bill, providing funding for defense through 2012, contained provisions civil liberties advocates–as well as ex-military [...]

Politics is theater, and nothing illustrates that observation more than modern discourse. Since the collapse of the World Trade Center, the fiction of political moderates, of ruling from the center, has been decimated. While this fiction had long been atrophied, it has, over the past decade, slipped into a sort of hyper-decay, transforming the modern [...]

A few weeks ago my friend, let’s call him Dave, was aware of my incredible knack for predicting the GOP primary results and discovered a whole new way for me, a sober alcoholic (alcoholics are never recovering, only sober), to lose my money and enjoy it.  Dave had discovered Intrade.com.  Intrade is an online prediction [...]