Wrong birds

Barack Obama’s staff evidently wouldn’t allow a woman in a head scarf to be part of the crowd behind him in a photo op. For obvious reasons, such a photo would simply hand ammunition to the reactionary  [more...]

Remember way back, oh, in 2000? When one of the candidates for president was really wonky and verbose and put everyone to sleep; and the other was dumb as a box of rocks and couldn’t name a single leader of any  [more...]

I really, really don’t understand what kind of math classes the Bush gang took. They just make the strangest fiscal decisions. For example, the biggest blunder: when they inherited the nation’s largest  [more...]