Organizing Grievances

Latest dirt on the DoL search is centering on Harley Shaiken out of Berkeley. And I'm saying that a Shaiken nomination is definitely ...

When are we gonna get another alb outta Testface ? I dunno, but we're getting serious prose in the interim. I mean, this has gotta be t...

I wonder what you all think about this .... crap? not crap? as for EZ..... not crap...

After John Edwards bowed out (and in retrospect, wasn't that a bullet dodged), I was leaning towards Obama over Hillary Clinton. It was...

'Gotta hand it to Chris Dodd ....'even Doug Henwood (sur le LBO listserve) gave the plan a "looks not too bad." Between th...

The Federation adopted an equally interesting political strategy, for Gompers sought to make voluntarism and the craft unions' nonpartis...

McCain's pick of Palin make concerns about his age and health legitimate talking points and lines of attack for the Dems. I say "no...

Chris Matthews just asserted that JFK was "Killed by a communist." I'm not a Oswald expert, but I've never heard it put t...

New poll up on the right. Same rules: vote early, vote often! All findings will be over-extrapolated and will include incoherent graphics.

I am not having the best of days. This perked me up considerably. Thank God for youtube.

The French In a thread down below, I already came out firmly on the side of "crap." I realized, however, that my pronouncement may...

I don't know enough about what's going on in Venezuela to have an informed opinion about Chavèz and the Bolivarian Revolution. But ...

The No-Strike Pledge American labor made during WWII. While it might seem obvious that labor would agree to support the war effort and tone...

This is the cover for this week's The New Yorker . I'm not going to link to all the hubbub, because either you live on the net or y...