War on Turr! Now 50 percent off!

The central problem with selling the War on Turr ™ as an indefinite proposition is that the only people who seem to be fighting it are the soldiers themselves and George W. Bush. We don’t seem like a nation at war. What do we conserve? What do we...

Elephants in trouble

You know things are bad when elephants are becoming highway bandits to extract food from surprised travellers. Of course, the metaphorical possibilities are endless when it comes to our Republican friends and their current well-deserved decline, but it may well be...

Engage smug mode

Greg Palast, thrower of journalistic Molotov cocktails, has recently been attacked on Daily Kos. Many people catch heat there, but in Palast’s case, the attack was a bit weird. He brought his allegations of a little something called vote caging (for more, please...