Author: thereisnospoon

I’ve got bad news, folks.  OUR LANGUAGE ABOUT THIS CONFLICT MUST CHANGE ENTIRELY.  Not because of Zarqawi–but because the Zarqawi incident shows just how dramatically we walk into GOP rhetorical traps. It...

The Exodus continues. Rank and file wingnuts–racists, patriarchalists, homophobes, and everyone in between–have been betrayed and enslaved by their corporate masters. And they know it.  Their masters have...

Would you rather be the homeless beggar without hope of escaping his condition, or the person in a ClubFed prison?   Freedom. It’s the subject of Lakoff’s latest book.  Preserving it is the very reason for...

Today in the Washington Post is a frightening and sobering article whose importance cannot be overestimated.  It discusses the broader blowback of Bush’s War on Decency Iraq. That Bush has inflamed tensions across the...

You remember that little scene from the Wizard of Of when the curtain is finally pulled back on the Wizard? That’s what Zarqawi’s death reminds me of today.  I believe that Zarqawi’s death will actually...