In Newt’s overheated lingo people are not wrong or objectionable, but pathetic and despicable. Quite often they are “the most pathetic or despicable in the history of the planet”. The carpet-bombing of Newt in Florida by Romney’s super pac shows how the system works. And while Newt’s complaint is really about the post-Citizens United … Read more
This image by guest artist Newt Gingrich, revealing Mitt Romney’s anti-Jewish-senior past. Newt Gingrich reaches new lows in the Florida-race-to-the-bottom-primary almost by the minute. In yesterday’s Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/gingrich-delivers-on-wild-and-wooly-vow/2012/01/29/gIQA0sUAbQ_story.html we saw the signs of a right-wing lunatic fringe gone mainstream in which a Gingrich campaign stop had the feeling of a hate group rally. Today … Read more
Former Congressman-turned lobbyist Bill Delahunt has graciously decided to forego the $15,000 a month fee from a company he helped get a big contract as congressman. This decision comes after an exposé by the Boston Globe, showing how public scrutiny can lead one to remarkable self-discovery. It doesn’t stop him from being the poster-boy for … Read more
Recently the Montana Supreme Court (Chief Justice Mike McGrath sketched here) ruled that the odious Citizens United ruling handed down 2 years ago by the US Supreme Court would not pass muster in Montana. Montana, it felt, had had a long tradition of understanding the toxic influence of money on democracy and had the responsibility … Read more
In today’s Times the difficult article about the Apple Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China. Like so many stories it implicates all of us. But this time we must connect human misery with the bright, uplifting futuristic world of the i-Pad. Hard to look, hard to look away. Ask Siri.
