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San Francisco based columnist, author, gym rat and novelist. My book, "The Confessions of a Catnip Junkie" is the best memoir ever written by a cat. Available on Amazon.com, or wherever fine literature is sold with no sales tax collected.

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"Allan Goldstein lives in San Francisco with his wife, Jordan, and a minimum of two cats. His op-ed newspaper column,"Caught off Base," has appeared in San Francisco's West Portal Monthly for the past decade. Satire, invective and humor are specialties.

He also blogs regularly on opednews.com and on hypocrisy.com under the pseudonym Snark Twain. Other work has appeared in Spitball, The Baseball Literary Review, The Potomac Review, and several magazines including Rock and Gem and Pilot's Preflight. He is currently at work on his third novel."

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Great Depression, From ImagesAttr
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 7, 2011
Broken Unions, Broken Nation, and the Lie that Keeps us Broke The nation is broken because the game is fixed.
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(28 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 6, 2009
Republican Autoerotic Asphyxiation The sad, slow suicide of a once-great American Party. And why we need not fear it.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, January 13, 2013
The Short, Sad Life of Greedaholics Anonymous Sometimes it takes a grand human tragedy to put the petty problems of our petty lives into proper perspective. While we were nursing new year's hangovers caused by BevMo Beaujolais and generic Gin, the Important People of the World were trying, and failing, to recover from a terrible addiction: greed.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 15, 2011
"The Memoirs of the White House Janitor." By Cosmo "Ace" Willingham. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have had their say. Now the janitor for the Bush White House writes his book and sets the record straight.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 5, 2010
How do you know if you're an artist? Are you an artist if nobody sees you?
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(35 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Repeal the Second Amendment. If the people don't want guns in their society, they should have the right to ban them. Or, at the very least, keep them out of the hands of idiots who aren't sane enough to pass the Driver's Exam. But we can't even do that, because of the tyrannical, obsolete, absurd, outdated Second Amendment.
(27 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 6, 2010
What do we lose if we "lose" in Afghanistan? Everybody here agrees, we should get out of Afghanistan. But not everyone faces the facts: If we do that, we lose. What happens when we lose in Afghanistan? When is harsh military power justified? And when is it not? And how do we know the difference? A few rules of thumb.
(18 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 22, 2010
The Counterrevolutionary Delusion What the rise of the right is really about. Counterrevolution as social pathology.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The Higgs Boson Speaks! The God particle preaches on the Folly of Man
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 26, 2011
The Poisoned Chalice Where do these strange Republican candidates come from? What got them here? And where did they go?
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 11, 2012
The Devil's Dictionary; Revised and Updated Continuing the necessary work of the master. I tackle the wisdom of the ages, at my peril, for your amusement.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The BP oil conspiracy: Coming Attractions! What really happened in the Gulf is far worse than your worst nightmares. But some courageous souls specialize in nightmares, and here's what they're dreaming up, right now.
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 21, 2010
The Right to get High Drug prohibition is a disaster. I propose this 28th amendment to the Constitution. "A well-regulated mood being necessary to the pursuit of happiness, Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to get high."
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Obama Progressivism: The Post-Mortem How to blow a mandate in 22 easy months. And what comes next.
(21 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 18, 2010
You Want to be a Writer? Here's Some Advice. Invaluable advice for the word-lorn. The secrets of successful writing revealed! From one who learned the hard way and only wants to "give back."
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(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Breaking up with Obama? It's not your fault, it's mine. No, really. I'm not just saying that. I'm a progressive, and I blew it.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 14, 2009
The Magical Power of Sports Myth, memory, sports, cynicism and the Great Boston Molasses Disaster
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(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The Revolution Equation Do you want to know when big change will come? Just do the math.
(45 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 27, 2009
Mostly, We are Idiots. So How Did We Elect a Genius? A snotty rant against the blogosphere, followed by a cheerful gush about America. Warning! Contains objectionable opinion about online morons, from which the author does not exclude himself.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 23, 2010
In Defense of Cats: The Confessions of a Catnip Junkie The Confessions of a Catnip Junkie: A new novel by an old opednews writer. At long last, the cat speaks!
(22 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 23, 2010
Where is the progressive Tea Party? There is no progressive movement in America, just progressives. Why can't we get it together? Where is the progressive Tea Party?
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 24, 2010
A message from God: You're Fired From the Desk of The Lord: I hereby terminate all spokespersons, authorities, publicists and uniformed clergy from my employ. They are all fired, they no longer speak for me. The merciful and righteous among them may continue in my good graces, but their pronouncements and edicts are strictly their own. I will no longer be responsible for obligations taken on my behalf by them, in any case whatsoever.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 4, 2010
The Republican Playbook: Uncensored In a caper worthy of the great James O'Keefe, of Mary Landrieu break-in fame, your author has purloined a top secret copy of The Republican Playbook. Or, the Heathen's Guide to Total Opposition.
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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 21, 2015
The Coming Income Inequality Election The happy, shocking prospect that this election could finally be about something.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 12, 2010
Government by obscenely rich amateurs Is it not too late to save democracy from the great money deluge? Or are we doomed to be (mis)governed by dismissed CEO's forever?
(9 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 7, 2010
A Walk on the Bright Side What is there to feel good about in our season of discontent? More than you think.
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(38 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 27, 2011
Everyone is born a Socialist The conservatives have it wrong. The philosophical roots of the progressive project are born inside us.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 13, 2014
The Sissy Cynic's Guide to Ebola The cure for Ebola is already here, no doubt lurking in some laboratory, waiting to be tested, proven and deployed. It will happen in record time, and when it happens our response will be "about time." It will cause less jubilation than the launch of a new app. In America. In Africa I think they'll appreciate it.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 16, 2010
BP takes a leak on America A love letter to BP. They really need a hug right now, and I'm just the guy to give it to them.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 20, 2009
You blame Obama, I blame You "Let's Blame Obama": How progressive passivity fails the future and hands it to the forces of reaction. You can blame the president, or you can try getting off the couch and doing something.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Helping Santa with The List Naughty or Nice, Santa knows JUST what you need!
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 6, 2011
An urgent message to good people everywhere A call for a general strike against the bad people who rule our world
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 15, 2010
Sirens for Haiti Thinking of Haiti, 7000 miles away, in stormy San Francisco. The night of.
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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 21, 2015
Hollywood's Great Generation Gap Fail Youth, they say, is misunderstood. What they don't say is that youth wants to be misunderstood. Being misunderstood provides an illusion of uniqueness. And it's hard to feel special when you Instagram your daily lunch. Old people are less misunderstood, except by young writers who don't get them. So here are a few clues. Maybe they'll make my next movie going experience less annoying.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 21, 2009
Dick Cheney was Absolutely Right, and Other News A stalwart defense of our ex-VP, the House of Saud, and Ann Coulter, proving that March Madness is not confined to the basketball court.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Continuing Killing of Trayvon Martin If you want to understand the enduring interest in this tragedy you have to see it for what it is: An exorcism.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 1, 2010
The 2011 Poulan Weed Eater State of the Union Speech Coming attractions for 2011, when the corporate takeover is at last complete.
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(28 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The Unlovely Profit Motive Profit is the lifeblood of our economic system. But that doesn't mean we have to like it.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 7, 2009
Swine Flu Hate Speech Out of the sty and into the streets! The Porcine International Goodwill Society, or P.I.G.S, demands an end to the hateful hate speech of a hateful humanity!
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Fade to Black: Movies going nowhere Some call it art. I call it trendiness. Of a particularly obnoxious kind.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 28, 2010
The Hidden, Cosmic Message in Avatar and District 9 What Avatar and District 9 share, other than a general hatred of humanity, and a general love of Technicolor aliens. A secret message for mankind, courtesy the Na'vi and Prawns.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Lazy-Americans: The Last Despised Minority Laziness is the ultimate sin. And I'm the ultimate sinner. But I'm not alone, not by a long shot. When we wish one another a good day, we say "take it easy." If you want to wish someone a bad day, say the opposite. You'll lose a friend, but how virtuous of you!
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 25, 2011
Libya, Leadership and Lives Getting it right in Libya. When everyone is against you, except the people you are helping, you are probably doing it right.
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(15 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Victory in the Culture War There are battles yet to come. But the tide has turned, the lines are smashed, the outcome no longer in doubt. We have won the culture war.
History, From ImagesAttr
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 5, 2011
Teaching History to a Digital Generation The digital generation has historical amnesia. But whose fault is that? Look in the mirror, my grizzled veteran friends.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Selling the Revolution A sales seminar for progressives. Because the future doesn't make itself.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, October 25, 2009
How to Get Out of Afghanistan Never let a good crisis go to waste. A crisis is coming in Afghanistan. And a chance to get out, if we don't waste it.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 4, 2011
The Debt Strike Pledge Default was a bluff and our so-called leaders folded. The enemies of the people won. Next time we should call that bluff and make them feel the pain. A call for a general strike on debt.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 6, 2009
The Crash, the Panic, the Depression. The panic of 2008, the depression of 2009-? An historical, not to say hysterical, analysis of previous economic catastrophes going back to 1819. And why Obama needs to keep his powder dry and coffers full if we are going to survive this one.
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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 16, 2014
A reluctant defense of Political Correctness A little love for political correctness, the ugly stepchild of cultural discourse. Political correctness,properly understood, is merely the code of honor, doing its essential work: holding society together in the absence of any other agreed moral/religious standards of behavior.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 4, 2012
Obama wins? So what? Obama needs to make this election about the will of the people. As in, will the will of the people be thwarted, yet again?
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 11, 2015
Loving the glorious relic that is baseball A love poem to a dying game, beloved of my youth and the blessing of my old age
The American Weapon, From ImagesAttr
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 7, 2013
The Default Revolution; Occupy Default How do we make the default pay? We go on offense. Occupy the Default.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 7, 2012
Midnight Strikes at Five to Four Five Supreme Court justices: All it takes to save democracy from itself!
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Failing the Edward Snowden Litmus Test. The job of our elected representatives isn't to persecute the whistle-blowers. It is to BE the whistle-blowers.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Supreme Court Schizophrenia When we say the Supreme Court has been politicized we besmirch the meaning of politics. They're fan boys for the GOP.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 15, 2009
Nadal Hasan and the Vices and Virtues of Political Correctness. A little love for the unloved virtues of political correctness. How they can help us mitigate the consequences of Nadal Hasan's attack, if properly used. And how they can blind us to the naked truth, if not.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 13, 2010
Spawn of iPad and other disasters A valentine to Apple and Steve Jobs when they need it most.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 13, 2014
Dear Hillary, Announce Now Hillary Clinton needs to announce now and remove any uncertainty about her candidacy. As long as she’s in the race, announced or otherwise, she’ll get all the attention on the Democratic side. If she’s not going to run, she needs to step aside immediately.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 8, 2010
WikiLeaks Attacks Heaven The secret files of Heaven exposed!
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The Twilight of the False Gods A flu shot for the current epidemic of bullshit.
Time, From ImagesAttr
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 5, 2012
This is not a Nostalgia Column Retro is more than a passing fashion. It's a symptom.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 3, 2011
Occupy Wall Street In The Spotlight The true source of the occupy movement's terrible, awesome power. And how to keep it strong.
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(27 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 13, 2014
How not to make a revolution A leaderless revolution is a failed revolution.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 19, 2009
Geert Wilder and the Swat Valley Follies: Tolerance or Cowardice? Tolerance is a virtue. Cowardice isn't. We are using the former as an excuse for the latter. As our gutless reaction to recent events in the Swat Vally of Pakistan and the British parliament sadly proves.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, July 8, 2011
Playing Pretend in Pakistan Predators, Pakistan, and implausible deniability
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Government Conspiracy Agency: Annual Report Leaked document tells all! Finally, the truth about all the lies our government has been feeding us!
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 5, 2009
It's Not a Surge, it's Chemotherapy What Obama was really saying in West Point. If you can get past your "he's killing babies!" outrage (like Afghanistan and Pakistan under the Taliban will be Candyland for women and children)you might hear what he was saying to you, and the world.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, October 16, 2014
Soda Tax Liberals and Other Political Disasters The San Francisco Soda Tax: A good progressive cause? Or political malpractice?
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 19, 2010
An Open Letter to the Tea Partiers The Tea Partiers are not going away, no matter how fervently we wish they would. Screaming at them does as much good as their screaming at us. I offer this with civility, from one American to another, in the sincere hope that it will help.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 23, 2010
Which Side Are You On? We have to choose, and the American people have to choose, whether they like it or not.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 5, 2010
The Vigorish is Too High The Masters of Money are destroying our economy. Their cut is too big, there's not enough left for the rest of us. The vigorish is too high.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 16, 2013
The Case for Market Socialism When an economy fails to serve the people it's a failed economy. The markets have driven global capitalism into a ditch. To fix it, we need some new ideas. Here's one.
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(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 7, 2014
The Ultimate Meaning of All Life Revealed The last newspaper column you will ever read.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 10, 2011
A New Year's Apology from an Incurable Writer Why do we write? And to whom? Dangerous questions that cry out for answers in these perilous times.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Welcome to the big leagues, Mitt If you think the GOP is disenchanted with Willard "Mitt" Romney now, wait until Obama gets done with him.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 14, 2009
Michael Phelps as Jackie Robinson: Obama as FDR: Drugism as Racism. Drug prohibition is destroying the world. It's a man-made catastrophe. History will judge us harshly for it. If we live that long.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 10, 2010
San Francisco: The Beautiful Bubble A love letter to my city, the San Francisco Giants and Giants fans everywhere.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 14, 2011
Premium Citizenship: A Marketing Plan to Save America. How to soak the rich without passing a tax the rich would never allow us to pass in the first place.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The Canary in the Coal Mine Tells All An old friend warns us about the new economy
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 14, 2012
An Air Kiss for the Hollywood Liberal Defending the insufferable. With pleasure.
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(23 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 2, 2012
Romney fakes left, scores Romney is running far to the left of Romney. That he had to do it is encouraging, that he may get away with it is depressing.
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(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Perchance to Dream The patient has cancer, diabetes, heart failure, bird flu and gangrene is setting in. We have been diagnosed. Why doesn't it seem to make any difference? Is it perhaps because we're demoralized? Let's pretend, just between you and me, that there is a way out of our dismal reality.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 28, 2015
The Word War II Delusion War is murder. Sometimes defensive war is necessary. But what gave us the crazy idea that war can have a happy outcome for everyone concerned? World War II.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Real Truth Behind Gates-gate What really counted in the Henry Gates affair wasn't his race. It was his celebrity.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, May 24, 2009
Much ado about everything The secret news they don't want you to hear, revealed, manufactured and deconstructed!
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 5, 2009
Dangerous Republican Irrelevancy The Republican party is dying. And it's killing us.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 20, 2009
Cover Everybody There is only one moral imperative that must be obeyed in health care reform. Cover everybody. Every single American. And do it now.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 1, 2010
All the important debates are inside the Democratic party. The right has forfeited. The serious political questions of the day are being debated in one party only. From the center to the left, all the arguments, all the work of governing is happening inside the Democratic party. And here's why.
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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 18, 2013
Disempowering Terrorism A refusal to be terrorized
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 12, 2009
The American Institute of Plug Pullers wants you! How to survive the crash and come out smelling like a rose! A glorious new future awaits you!
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 6, 2009
We Are All Libertarians, Even Dick Cheney We need rights to protect us from others and laws to protect others from us. An article in which Dick Cheney appears as a good guy, despite himself.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 17, 2009
Roughing the Rusher Rush Limbaugh takes one for the team.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 12, 2009
A Very Meh-ry Year Some reflections, as 2009, real and virtual, stumbles to an end. Caution: Some serious snark inside.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 22, 2010
America the Ungovernable Looking for the villain? Try the mirror.
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(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 11, 2013
Ballots, Battlefields or Baseball The shameful confessions of a die-hard, left-wing baseball fan.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 8, 2012
Debunking debunking A liberal without ideals and hope is no liberal at all. Ideals are a promissory note. A liberal, by any name and at all times, is one who does his or her level best to cash that check.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 12, 2010
Save your presidency, Obama: Throw Strikes. It is time for some good old fashioned country hardball, Mr. President. Throw Strikes.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Satirists on Strike! The vicissitudes of satire & political commentary.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Great Obama Rebranding: Part two How Barack Obama is repairing the tattered American brand and how it got broken in the first place. Hint: Neither extreme is going to like it.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, December 18, 2009
Health Care, Climate Change, and other Residue Seasons Greetings, dear readers. This Screen Dump is for you!
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Good Things in Bad Times Hope, Baseball and the bittersweet lessons of the season. All is not lost because much of what we lost we needed to lose. But will we find the right things?
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Politics of Show versus the Politics of Go If you want to stop the man from keeping you down you have to keep the man down, constantly, vigilantly, forcefully, with slow, steady political pressure.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 6, 2009
Calling all Commies: We Need You! Rx. A prescription for progress. Take two communism tablets and call me in the morning.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 29, 2009
No, You Can't The world is breaking. Chaos beckons, and Barack Obama, the man who gave us hope when he said "Yes, we can," now needs to speak a new phrase. He may have to say it to our generals, he may have to say it to Ahmadinejad, he may have to say it to us. "No, you can't."
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Forty Years and Counting: The Death of the High Frontier Forty years ago we walked on the moon. Lately, not so much. Is the High Frontier dead and closed forever?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 30, 2010
On the dire necessity of optimism Optimism is the missing ingredient in much progressive thinking. If we don't change that, we fail.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Staying Straight in Sochi The Official Guide to Olympic Behavior from the Russian Ministry of Sexual Hygiene
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, June 18, 2009
The Pragdealist Alternative: A Declaration of Independence Move over, Liberals and Conservatives. Make room. There is a new player at the table and he's going to change the game. Meet the Pragdealist.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I Could be Even More Thankful A short, satirical to-do list for the holiday season. Go ahead, it's okay. You can laugh and still get to heaven one fine day. It might even help.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Real Lesson of Tuesday's Election: DO Something The real takeaway from Tuesday's election. Why it says nothing. And why the Democrats better listen.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Ted Kennedy: The Last of His Kind Of "compounds," class traitors, public servants and the death of an era.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 30, 2009
Think Big Obama What Obama should do now.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, May 30, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor and GOP Self-Immolation How Barack Obama used Sonia Sotomayor to send the GOP into a graveyard spiral.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 13, 2009
How the world should handle Kim Jong-Il Another dud, another day. Let's try something different with Dear Leader. (humor)
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, October 10, 2009
Who Roots for America? The revolution we started in 1776 needn't end in failure. America is still a place we can make, if we root for it. But who roots for America anymore?
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, February 1, 2009
We need a bubble! We'll never get out of our economic tailspin unless we do this. Pronto.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 11, 2013
A call from Justice Justice is a universal human ideal. So why not build a society on that foundation? Why not reach for what we have always wanted? Why not Justism?
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 17, 2009
The Great Obama Rebranding: Part one Tea Parties, The Conservative Follies, and a HUGE repair job for the American Brand.

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