Month: April 2010

finally coming to the small screen: barackryphal’s classic inauguration day expedition into the mind of a birther, which answered the burning question “should president obama hang onto that tenner?” go read the...

So, I hate the new draft. It’s always been on Saturday and Sunday. Now it’s starting on Thursday night at 8pm. It’ll be 12:30 at night before the first round is over. I’m not one of those draft freaks who...

Over the years Hollywood has produced a vivid record of the immigrant experience in America. Although many movies are controversial on matters of fact, they nonetheless provide a valuable insight into how immigrants are seen and...

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. For centuries, farmers in the Sahel–a band of land that crosses Africa at the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert–used rotational tree farming to...

From Mitch McConnell in today’s Senate Rules Committee hearing on changing the filibuster rule: “I submit that the effort to change the rules is not about democracy. It is not about doing what a majority of the American...