I’ve been wondering about the Ayers attack for months - I knew that the Republicans would try to make something out of nothing no matter what, especially if things started to look bleak for them. I thought this before McCain hired the Karl Rove-Lee Atwater Ice Capade Singers as his entire campaign brain, and after [...]
You bet your life it is. I’d like to direct everyone’s attention to something I wrote in May of 2005, called Bleakonomics.
Uninvited
We’ll stay if we want
Searching through your closets
For your grandfathers gun
-Cake
Over the last several days, I have made several attempts at writing a piece for this site, or for the Dig, called “Minimum Wage Nation.” The basic thrust of the whole thing was going to be that, like most families in America, our beloved country [...]
You don’t have to hear it from me to know that things have gone south for the reasonable among us in the month or so since I left you. The last, despairing cries of my undergraduate career are echoing in the halls of the clean, ill-lighted place my days have become.
By that, I in no [...]
I was out at my mother’s place last weekend to celebrate my brother’s birthday, and my uncles were there too. They are an excellent set of guys (and I mean set - when all are represented, the number is nine) but they like to rag on me hardcore for my politics. When they [...]