Undercover Blue

My other political project continues to consume much time. Op-ed: Coming soon in the funny papers.

The right-wing Pass-It-On e-mails that come to me (via friends and relatives who know I collect it) was were a source of amusement for year...

At recent and not-so-recent Democrat events I've attended, invariably someone gets up to remind us what Democrats are all about. To chee...

This is a few days old, but worth reading in full. Ezra Klein renders a diagnosis of the latest Malkin/wingnut crusade -- against 12-year-o...

from "Last of the Mohicans," on cable tonight : I believe if they set aside their law as and when they wish, their law no longer h...

Every day for the last several decades? Rick Perlstein (citing James Fallows) observes that Al Gore isn't the first Nobel winner to giv...

Glenn Greenwald opines today on the naked corruption on display in the Telecom Immunity law winding through Congress with bipartisan suppor...

Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize First Jimmy Carter, now Al Gore. Clearly, the Nobel committee is weak on defense and hates America. They don...

Today's editorial : Is this the country whose president declared, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” and then managed the collapse of...

"That ain’t my finger, neither.” From this morning's New York Times : Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients have been victims of...

experience -- circa 1st century A.D. -- is what America needs: scales falling from eyes. Courtesy of Glenn Greenwald , evidence that that...

Slate's Fred Kaplan uses a recently released transcript of a pre-Iraq invasion conversation between President Bush and Spain's then-...

Rick Perlstein and I seem to be on the same page. He shows how far we've come. We once welcomed the leader of the USSR with salutes and ...

Reading Slate this morning, it seems this guy has a future in our office of faith-based initiatives: Most of the papers front Iranian Pres...

Still locked in my lab-or-a-tory working on "Project X." Meanwhile, Digby wonders why the GOP can hop about the media altar, slas...

Once again, the last stall in the men's room yields blog fodder. No Bible tracts or printouts from NewsMax this time, but the August 200...

what is "dead"? From today's L.A. Times : WASHINGTON -- -- For more than four years since the invasion of Iraq, President Bush...

and Talking Points Memo in the Columbia Journalism Review . A good read on an important site(s). [h/t atonemusic]

Glenn Greenwald's Thursday appearance in Asheville, NC has been postponed.

They believed cooperation and compromise signaled weakness . . . they viewed every encounter outside the innermost core of most trusted advi...