Noam Chomsky On The Two-Party System
A contentious figure, sure, but Chomsky gets this one absolutely right.
The Worst Campaign Bumper Sticker Ever
Posted on January 5, 2013 in Images
As long as there are people this blatantly bigoted, race will always be an issue.
Matt Bors, Political Cartoonist Of The Week
Posted on January 5, 2013 in Political Cartoons
As scathingly unforgiving as he is insightful, Portland-based Matt Bors is ProseBeforeHos political cartoonist of the week. In 2010, Bors hopped a flight to Afghanistan (not the easiest of stunts) to offer a more colorful portrayal of how fucked up things were there. Bors has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and is featured regularly in The LA Times, Daily KOS and The Nation. Check out some more of his work here.
The Avenging Uterus
The Metaphorical Gibberish Of Economics
The GOP’s Worst Nightmare: A Shrinking Southern White Population
Posted on January 5, 2013 in Articles
The Article: Republicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote by Douglas Blackmon in The Washington Post.
The Text: Late on election night, a small melee erupted at the University of Mississippi here when a group of white students frustrated by the reelection of President Obama marched outside and began shouting racial slurs at African American students. Several hundred people gathered to watch as two white students were arrested.
“Mississippi still has a lot of work to do in race relations,” said Kimbrely Dandridge, an African American Obama supporter and president of the student body.
Yet even as that incident evoked ugly memories of an earlier era, Election Day in the South told a newer and more surprising story: The nation’s first black president finished more strongly in the region than any other Democratic nominee in three decades, underscoring a fresh challenge for Republicans who rely on Southern whites as their base of national support.
The Ten Best Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Posted on January 4, 2013 in Quotes
The late Christopher Hitchens provides atheists and theists alike with reason-based remedies with the ten best Christopher Hitchens quotes on religion, God, science, reason, and atheism:
