Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas

Senior slimefest: "[W]elcome, seniors, to the world of Republican slime throwing," says an editorial in today's Star Tribune ...

Me-First Media: More on Sinclair Broadcast: Some developments to my recent Alternet article on the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The article l...

Duping America: ThinkProgress ponders a 160-page playbook written by conservative strategist Frank Luntz on how GOPers should talk about t...

Kiss my Ashcroft! According to the Washington Post , a certain rump-related swear word has been replaced with the name of our attorney gene...

Bits and pieces... Why they fought: Update 02.24: The Strib more or less confirms Indymedia's reporting. Thanks to the local chapte...

Rummyvision: Arianna Huffington suggests programs for the Pentagon Channel--"Real World: Fallujah," "Pimp My Humvee"-...

We're number ____! Michael Ventura, running the numbers of the U S of A , writes, "We're an 'empire,' ain't we? S...

More war? Scott Ritter, ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector, said Friday that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to b...

RIP HST: Hunter S. Thompson street-art obituary, via The Wooster Collective (via reBlog ).

GOP's anti-gay agenda: According to DailyKos , the smear has begun: this animated gif appeared on the website of the conservative Amer...

Rethinking the "good book" in Nigeria: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Purple Hibiscus , novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

Kunstler's prophecy: James Howard Kunstler , the author of The Geography of Nowhere , updates his occasional blog , " Clusterfuck...

Anatomy of a free-speech backlash: How did it come to pass that a little-read 2001 essay by Ward Churchill simmered undetected for years un...

On Bullshit: Princeton's Harry Frankfurt offers a timely reflection on the nature of BS, which he defines as a "lack of connection...

Swift Boat Veterans for (your Republican cause here): Look for more Swift Boat-style mudslinging orchestrated by the Republicans and aimed ...

Targeting Chavez? Condi calls this democratically elected Latin American leader a "negative force" in the region. CIA chief Porte...

Father of "gonzo journalism" dead: New Journalism pioneer Hunter S. Thompson , 67-year old author of Fear and Loathing in Las Ve...

"Lost dollar bill. If found please return to..." Earl Vickers has, apparently for years, been doing rubber-stamp conceptual art ...

Up is Down: Another Unlikey Promotion: Update 02.23: As FAIR issues a comprehensive rundown of mainstream media's omissions on Negropon...

The Puppetmasters: My new AlterNet story on the Sinclair Broadcast Group digs into allegations that personal interests of Sinclair execs -...