There is a strain of "thought" (and I use the term in the loosest possible sense) on the far left that says if we make things bad enough, the people will rise up in glorious revolution. We see this is in the ongoing idiocy that is Susan Sarandon who is more than happy to watch ...read more

Billionaire playboy of New York City, Bruce Wayne, errrr....Michael Bloomberg has decided that, yes, he might just indeed run for president as a Democrat because the Republican Party is fucking insane. The problem with that is that Michael Bloomberg is, shall we say....not a ...read more

Donald Trump talks a lot of shit. He loves to pretend he's a tough guy, that he's the last person you want to mess with because he's a Wall Street warrior whose business acumen has made him wealthier than you'll ever be and whose sheer, overwhelming masculinity has bedded him a ...read more

I have been thinking about what counsel I would give Anthony Weiner about what would be his best move, politically (Other than stop sending pictures of yourself to women you don't know.  I mean you practically have to be brain damaged to believe them when they say they will ...read more

Well, I know I am relieved.  Just when I was starting to worry about Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was elected three times by New Yorkers, was getting out of control, Sarah Palin, who has never been elected by New Yorkers, has come to the rescue. After quitting her job as governor ...read more

Anthony Weiner is considering running to be the next New York City's mayor and I am all for it.  The former Congressman and ardent liberal should run.  You probably remember a few years ago he was pushed from Congress for tweeting his privates. Well, that was the official reason. ...read more

As evidenced by my post on Monday about pursuing gun control legislation at the state level due to the ineffectual and barely-there efforts of the congressional Democrats, I've been thinking about various ways to roll back the proliferation of guns and the gun culture without ...read more

A constitutional amendment in North Dakota is one public vote away from banning all abortions regardless of circumstances and without exceptions. It's the first successfully passed "fetal personhood" amendment in American history, and if it makes it through a referendum process, ...read more

By Robert Parry: If you relied on one signpost for where not to go, it might be the columns of New York Times star Thomas L. Friedman: If he’s pointing in one direction, like some humorless Cheshire Cat, it’s usually a safe bet that you should go the other way. Sure, he’s not ...read more

A Brit reports on what it is like to get sick in America: When I finally wobbled out of the shiny lobby of the Beth Israel, clutching a bag of drugs, follow-up advice and complimentary hospital toiletries, I understood what it really means to be without means in America. ...read more

It may not seem like a big deal - throwing away the books of a bunch of hippies - but the NYPD's mindless destruction of the makeshift OWS library in Zuccoti park is a symbol of what has happened to America. The militarization of domestic policing in the US after 9/11 is having ...read more