By Drew Westen, AlterNet. October 12, 2009. World:What led to the unusual decision to bet on futures rather than follow the century-old precedent of selecting someone who has actually accomplished something?
AlterNet. May 11, 2009. Media:The stand-up comic stirs it up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, ragging Rush Limbaugh for his OxyContin habits.
By Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report. May 1, 2009. Drugs:Colbert interviews Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance on the need for massive drug law reforms.
By Stanley Bing, Huffington Post. June 18, 2008. Media:Newspapers aren't any deader right now than any other coughing, wheezing business in this lousy environment.
By Katie Halper, KatieHalper.com. June 6, 2008. Election 2008:The Obama pound, exchanged between Michelle and Barack on Tuesday night, marked a historic moment.
By Mister Leonard Pierce, AlterNet. March 1, 2008. Posing as a lobbyist for the American Milk Solids Council, one lefty blogger entered the belly of the CPAC beast.
By Julie Bergman Sender, Campaign for America's Future. August 6, 2007. The Seinfeld star plays a part-Karl Rove, part-Lord Voldemort character who plots to keep the Democrats road blocked in Congress in this hilarious short video.
By Will Durst, AlterNet. May 28, 2007. Hillary Clinton just offered up the choice of her official presidential campaign song into the hands of the people. Here are a few ideas.
By Rachel Maddow, www.layercake.tv. May 10, 2007. How Romney will convince us to elect him president based on his special ability to protect us from France.
By Michael Blanding, AlterNet. July 16, 2005. We, the depraved citizens of Boston, would like to thank Sen. Santorum for recognizing our city as the modern-day Gomorrah that it is, and pointing out all the ways that Boston has led to the moral decline of the nation.
TomDispatch.com. March 29, 2005. A survey of the world of pretzeled language coming from the administration – with thoughtful additions by Tom Engelhardt, Rebecca Solnit, Chalmers and Sheila Johnson, and Arlie and Adam Hochschild, among others.
By Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive. January 4, 2005. There's no reason to be stuck with a nationality that doesn't reflect the real you! Apply now for a country appropriate to your personal tastes and values!
By Abid Aslam, Jim Lobe, AlterNet. December 24, 2004. Environment:Add to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein another bearded, remote-dwelling evildoer President Bush intends to rout from his habitat: Santa Claus.
By Liz Langley, AlterNet. December 22, 2004. Sex & Relationships:The doom and gloom of daily news doesn't offer much good stimulation. One device takes the often inane chatter and adds a little buzz.
By Rachel Neumann, AlterNet. November 9, 2004. Election 2004:Post Election Stress and Trauma Syndrome – PESTS – is sweeping the nation, with strange and often unexpected symptoms. The surprising medical diagnosis: That which doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.
By Michael Moore, AlterNet. November 8, 2004. Election 2004:If you're looking on the bright side, there's some good news to be found in Tuesday's results.
By Adrienne Maree Brown, WireTap. October 14, 2004. Ohio:"Kerry is three for three with 18 days left for these boys to drop it like its hot in every battleground state in the country. May the best Skull & Bones Yalie boy rise victorious."
By El Fisgón, TomDispatch.com. October 14, 2004. Election 2004:The typical Mexican political boss has an inclination toward violence and cruelty; he despises legality and intellectual activity, has a personal history of alcoholism and dissipation and lies systematically. Sound familiar?
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com. July 28, 2004. Must we be a primary-color nation? Wouldn't a little lilac make us feel better about terror alerts? Perhaps some aubergine-chartreuse?
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