Organizing Grievances

If I ever decide I need that Ph.D - strictly for vanity purposes - it's going to be with the goal of becoming the nation's foremost ...

Behind the News featured Adolph Reed two weeks ago, hot on the heels of Reed's unfuckwithable critique of "Obamaism" on the ...

Thus the union idea has been devalued in two dramatic ways. To the extent that the courts continued to honor an outmoded set of pluralist as...

Walking from my playroom, where I was playing some Playstation, into my kitchen, I see a lizard quickly crawling across the kitchen floor to...

‘He who would understand politics in the large may ponder the status of labor,’ wrote political scientist V.O. Key in 1953, the year in whic...

Once again, leave it to the Best Show to keep me hip to the NJ-centric sundry and various . After however many years, it would seem that pe...

Surely we all have more refined tastes now, but given our collective experiences, we've all had our bouts with bad beer. Bad in the sen...

From digby : (transcript of Rush's show) BUSH 41: Well, yeah. I'm kind of on the sidelines, but I can't do golf and all that stu...

Dear Friend, I normally wouldn't be writing to you, but I felt like I had to get some of these FACTS out there, since the right wing med...

[This post may be missing key links, because the Register Guard doesn't get linky until noon.] We've discussed on this blog the Eug...

This is kinda long, so before you read it, if you haven't read dave's last post , do it now because it rocks. We'll wait until...

billmon's back ! And he brought with him the definitive account of the cynical opportunism that's defined John McCain's career!

I was driving behind an SUV (Toyota Sequoia to be exact) full of kids on my way home from the store. It was sporting a bumper sticker that ...

I was also thinking that the Kaine thing was a feint... Jeralyn explores Sebelius as a possible VP: Why does Obama need Kaine as a smokesc...

A Restaurant Review: There's a new restaurant in the 541 (Eugene, Oregon, USA). For those of you familiar with your Eugene restaurant s...

James Walcott at Vanity Fair and Brendan Bernhard at the NY Sun have it right. We all wish there was some there there. I watched most of t...

Part of the agreement to let China host the Olympic games was that foreign journalists be allowed to have unfettered access to the internet....

The Tree of Labor , my friends.

I have to say I would not be too happy with a vp choice that was anti-choice, anti-stem cell research, and would mean the loss of a weakly h...

By now you're all surely aware of the Great Frackin' Cracker Desecration of 2008 (Cliff Notes version here ). One of the pleasant ...