Month: September 2009

NBC Universal helpfully sent me an advance transcript of David Gregory’s interview with the president on this morning’s Meet the Press. The whole interview is dreadful and depressing. Gregory touches on four issues....

I’m always disappointed when the film doesn’t match its advertisements, no matter how good the film or important its message. So I have to admit I was a little disappointed with The Informant! because I was expecting...

In David Broder’s world, the ideal politician is ambitious but non-ideological. They are earnest and eager to serve the public, but they have to ask which party they should belong to. That was the case with Max Baucus. I...

You know, of course I agree with Bob Herbert. The racism that simmered within the Hillary Clinton campaign burst into full bloom last fall at the Palin rallies. I wasn’t so much surprised to encounter this kind of...

just a heads up diary. christy’s been one of the clearer voices advocating, analyzing, and supporting the causes of justice and progressivism for what seems like an eternity in blogtopia time……yeah,...