Author: SlackerInc

It may simply be elitism rather than an actual conspiracy, but the way the news media covers the Alternative Minimum Tax, it might as well be one.  The final straw for me was when the PBS Newshour, normally a paragon of...

First, some sad news: a great hero (the founder, some say) of the modern environmentalist movement has died. MILWAUKEE – Gaylord Nelson, the folksy Democratic senator from Wisconsin who helped start the modern...

BooMan has made it clear that the foremost rule on his site is simply “Don’t be a prick.”  I’ve recently come to realise that I’ve been a chronic violator of that rule (no news flash to most of...

I think that’s probably what our local, small town Midwestern primary school thinks of me now, after I sent my son’s summer school kindergarten teacher an email asking that she not require him to say the Pledge of...

I was really impressed by the WSJ article Nag linked over at the front page “hairshirt” story.  It seems to indicate that liberal bloggers have a lot more of the “netroots” power they have been...