The State Of Ayn Rand

The body politic is organismal and functions best as a whole. This collective intelligence represenst a state of “we.” When an individual cell rebels from the “we state” and enters the “me state,” we call that the Ayn Rand state, aka cancer.

Rope & Change: The Birth Of A Nation

Tracing Racism from the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation to the 2012 GOP Presidential Campaign

Paul Ryan: Hypocrite

Paul Ryan: Master of situational ideology.

The Nature Of The Game

Village hack Joe Klein just doesn’t get it: How incompetent is the Romney campaign? They keep coming up with these stupid gambits–the last was the lie that Obama opposed early voting for members of the military in Ohio–that are shot down instantaneously (everywhere but in Fox-Rush land). And worse, the Democrats–who seem to have a superior oppo team–can often produce counter-stories, …

The Truman Show

“It seems that the whole world revolves around me somehow.”

Men In Black

“Now that I’ve told you I’ll be taking away your ‘Obamacare,’ I’ll have to use my flashy flashlight thing to erase your memory.”

The Gaffe Wars

The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Jon Stewart suffering whiplash from the Gaffe Wars Twenty four years ago, columnist Michael Kinsley wrote: “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.” True enough. But what has changed since …