Author: eodell

After largely ignoring politics since early in Clinton’s first term — you know, back when the worms had eaten into my brain and briefly made me a Republican — I tuned back in with a vengeance after 9/11. I was...

The wheels of justice turn slowly, and many a rich scumbag has been able to buy his way out of his just desserts, but not today. Bernie Ebbers, the former Worldcom CEO whose accounting fraud ended up costing investors nearly $11...

After the unofficial pie purge at dKos, I expected more of the same, while Kos partisans argued that it wasn’t a purge at all, and that those thinking so were, at the very least, a little paranoid. So I banned these...

During the now-infamous Pie Fight and the ensuing exodus of liberal Democrats, there were a number of well-intentioned (and some not so well-intentioned) folks who urged the offended parties to stay and fight. There were several...

The war in Iraq is nearing its end, at least the portion of the war involving American forces. And it’s not because of the noble efforts of Congressman Conyers and others. None of that matters right now, though it will in...