Author: phronesis

Steven D. wrote a magnificent diary about boycotting advertisers who advertise on Leno because of his promotion of Ann Coulter and her fascist venom on The Tonight Show.  His diary evoked many comments, a few of which I...

Since I was tired of political stuff, I had to go to the only other thing worth talking about.   Cross-posted at http://rescuejesus.blogspot.com/ Jesus, Baptism and The End is Not Near One of the central tenets of American...

If this doesn’t give every normal American a chill, then you’ve been infected by the fascist culture war bug. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060606_sunsara_taylor_preconception/ Read this and weep.  I...

Elizabeth Drew has an excellent piece in The New York Review of Books, eloquently titled, simply, Power Grab.   http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19092 In it she demonstrates that Bush’s White House is carrying out...

Mother Jones has an interview with Jimmy Carter in which Carter talks about the intersection of religious and political fundamentalism that has corrupted the country.  ...