Month: June 2005

I’m sitting here with Scarborough on in the background. They’re laughing their asses off over Tom Cruise’s appearance on Oprah. Anyone see Tom’s travesty? It sounds like it was pretty painful to watch....

NOTE crossposted from dailykos here  — if you are able, recommendations there are also appreciated is entitled The Spiral Staircase:  My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong, who (a) does not have a...

Al Franken returns to the Sundance Channel weeknights at 11:30 PM ET. You can get podcasts and Al’s crossword puzzle that appeared in the NYT. (I’m impressed envious! I can only dream of that goal.) And, thanks to...

The battle against Republican corruption continues. Generally I focus my efforts on several particularly corrupt Republicans, like Mike Oxley (OH), Roy and Matt Blunt (MO) and Conrad Burns (MT). But most people are focusing on...

Any understanding of the radicalisation of Islam must acknowledge that the growth of extremism has less to do with theology and more to do with socio-economic failures of domestic governments, unemployment and the ever-widening...