Author: Geov Parrish

The Narrative Has Changed

Catching up on some pre-(municipal) election reading, and came across this nugget from ThinkProgress: A ThinkProgress review of the media coverage of the last week of July found that the word “debt” was mentioned more than 7,000...

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Gallup: Democrats Dispirited

While it’s the Republicans who keep bewailing their presidential candidates, a new Gallup poll is excellent news for whichever crackpot or pretend-crackpot wins the Republican nomination: In thinking about the 2012...

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A Festival of Lemons

Well, after President Obama last week managed to temporarily save face by turning a lemon into lemonade, trust Israel to find a way today, with this announcement from the Knesset, to defy physics and turns the lemonade back into...

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A History Lesson

The current #Occupy Wall Street action has its most immediate inspiration and roots in the democratically organized Spanish occupations of last May, similar widespread protests this year in Greece, and Arab Spring. But the...

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Sane 1, Stupid 0

I somehow missed this last week. Funny how those Fox-generated insta-scandals can disappear from sight so quickly and completely.

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