Seriously? Joe Solmonese, the head of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), just sits there as MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell starts off this segment today by saying Solmonese...
Maybe the GOP Should Change Its Mascot From The Elephant To The Chicken? It started at a local New York City TV station last September, but...
Editor’s note: J. Rudy Flesher is a Philadelphia based actor, blogger and college student. After a three-year detour working in health care he recently returned to...
Closing arguments in the federal Prop 8 trial, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, begin tomorrow, after several months of hiatus, investigation, and a lot of questions from Judge...
Rick Santorum then: “Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why?...
For a moment I felt I was watching a Twilight Zone version of that quintessential Oprah episode, except the cries were, “And you’re a socialist, And...
An April 14, 2010 New York Times/CBS News poll finds that 84% of Tea Party backers think “the views of the people involved in the Tea...
My Dear, Fellow, “The Gays,” I’ve been looking at the news, and it finally dawned on me this week: Everything, I mean, everything, is our fault....
Glenn Beck, the Thirty-Two-Million-Dollar-Man in charge of racism, red scares, and right-wing Tea Party wingnuts at Fox News, offered this informed comment on the news today...
Tonight, in the final story on MSNBC’s “Countdown,” Keith Olbermann joined Twitter, and John Hodgman taught him to tweet. Here’s Olbermann’s first tweet – somewhat mysterious,...
A few weeks ago, in, “Proof The GOP Is The Party Of No Morals And Grand Hypocrisy,” I offered two excellent examples of journalism that provided...
Tonight, Rachel Maddow earned a Pulitzer. Well, perhaps not quite, but close. Maddow puts into words and pictures, and proves what we Democrats and Progressives and...
Like Keith Olbermann, I love James Thurber. I first fell in love with him (Thurber, not Olbermann) in high school, when we did “A Thurber Carnival.”...
OK. I’m going to share a slightly personal story here. Last night I had the honor of speaking to my former journalism teacher’s class about this...
Retired General Jack Sheehan apologizes for blaming genocide on Dutch gay soldiers. Also, it’s one thing to mis-quote someone. It’s another to use their former positions...