Rick Perlstein suggests not in an excellent essay placing today's wingnuts in context. A choice passage: Over fifteen years of studying the American right professionally — especially in their communications.
I've been exposed. A comment on my Alternet piece on vibrators: Erik Loomis is a professor of leftist indoctrination, mischaracterized positions, unproven assumptions and leftist propaganda. Late night comedians do.
I was going to vote for Obama until this happened: Verona, PA - While campaigning in Puerto Rico, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum received the endorsement former major league baseball.
As someone who is marginally obsessive about reading the New York Times obituaries, and not only to track my Death List, I found this discussion of sexism within the NYT.
You were thinking that the real problem with Sandra Fluke is that she's a prostitute who won't show us her sex tapes in exchange for allowing her to use birth.
Speaking of the new Gilded Age, Sara Robinson has an outstanding piece on the decline of the 40 hour work week. Many interesting points. Robinson puts a lot of blame.
This will probably earn me the scorn of the hard-drinking LGM crew, but I was very interested to see this post on the return of low-alcohol beers. I may have.
Josh Eidelson adds an important angle to the recent coverage of the exploitation of NCAA athletes by writers such as Taylor Branch and Joe Nocera. Eidelson explores the nascent attempts.
