Miniver Cheevy

It would be naïve to call these guys representative of a force for good or a force for evil. They are better understood as a force with ...

Clearing his throat on the way to reviewing Jaron Lanier's new book Who Owns The Future? , Freddie deBoer provides a spot-on summati...

Here's yet another study demonstrating the obvious. Providing free, reliable birth control to women could prevent between 41 perc...

A little magic on Twitter today from a great American poet:

I’ve been reading commentaries (and commenting myself) on George Zimmerman's shooting of Trayvon Martin, and I've discovered folk...

John Harrison at the journalism blog JMACED adds a smart little wrinkle to a commonplace observation. There are many people who c...

Digby, in talking about the militarization of American police, makes a general observation about the minarchist-libertarian strain in th...

An apostate from the “pro-life” movement discovers the hypocrisy of the movement and its real motivation. I found that making birth c...

Robert Reich asks a pointed question. Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought to systematically destroy the U.S. gov...

In my index Understanding American Politics I offer links to various folks offering ways of thinking about the difference between the br...

Dorian Taylor offers a nice overview of some very useful vocabulary so I will never again have to explain from scratch what I'm talk...

Salon has a little summary of how the IRS “scandal” is nonsense ginned up by the VRWC. The IRS affair is now frozen in public opinion...

A fascinating history of trash collection in New York City. In its early days, the department [of sanitation] didn’t really function ...

I just made a prediction on Twitter. Azrielen asked So how long now until polyamory is up for actual discussion? 100 years, you thin...

The left blogsophere is fond of quoting this editorial from the conservative National Review from 24 August 1957, written by William F. ...

This nine-minute epic animated film about heroes on a grand adventure of swords, magic, and awesome is unforgettable — but a while ago I ...

Morpheus Revenna's post Polytheism: The Light In The Window is pretty terrific, and not just because it quotes me. She talks about h...

This post was inspired by a Facebook post of a Friend which said: “Gentrification: Ethnic cleansing, with a liberal twist!” That's...

An incredible interview with Sarah Kendzior in which she lays out a critique of what she calls “the Prestige Economy”. It's wort...

Marc “I am NOT the Beastmaster” Singer: Darkseid is one of the great archetypal characters, and one of the last to arrive in comics. ...

A Friend from Facebook made a memorable sharp-tongued comment about a certain strain of libertarians. I think property-fetish libertar...

Scott at Jackdaws Love My Big Sphynx of Quartz offers us what he calls The Worst Argument In The World. I declare the Worst Argument ...

Maeve at L'Esprit D'Escalier has the succinct critique of common objections to the word “cis” that I've been looking for, In...

I saw this film in an art gallery 20 years ago, and flirted a little with the animator who made it. I thought I would never see it again...

Over on the Twitters, Marc Rettig points us to a little Forbes piece, ‘Culture of Purpose’ Is Key To Success According To New Research...

David “ The Wire ” Simon explains in a comment on his blog responding to the question, “ I’m curious to hear your thoughts regarding the...

Goofy, I know. But I couldn't resist.

So I guess scandal season is upon us, as once again Republicans try to disrupt a Democratic President's electoral victory through a c...

So I go to see Iron Man 3 and there are a bunch of action movie trailers before the movie starts. Including this one for White House Dow...

Driftglass offers a thumbnail sketch of paranoia and deceit entangled in pseudo-libertarian politics. For them, the world makes only ...