American Athens

Today, I found myself more angry than usual at both the mass media and society in general. So, I decided to post this collection of random thoughts.
- George Will still sucks.
-Are there really people who care who the highest paid actress in Hollywood is? If you do, please stop hurting America, put down the US […]

Some quick thoughts on Hedley Bull. Really, only one:
Why is it that the prospect of war as reinforcing the state system, rather than reflective of some fundamental breakdown in the order of it, makes so much sense to me and I — I expect — so little to others?
Getting this seems to only take the […]

No Thanks to Thanksgiving
By Robert Jensen
One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.
In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of […]

To see the awesome picture he found from Sunday’s Homophobia Rally. And, no, the optical illusion isn’t that the Governor is actually in Massachusetts, but that’s a good first guess.

From WAMC’s Peter A. A. Berle:
The Bush administration has given the concept of incompetence a whole new dimension. We are reminded almost daily of its biggest blunders, the conduct of the war in Iraq and the response to hurricane Katrina. Those capture the headlines and fester like sores sapping our blood and treasure. But there […]

If you have yet to hear about this: Tuesday night, a (Muslim) UCLA student was tasered for not having his ID in the library. It seems as though UCLA is planning to continue with their recent track record on race relations.
The video of the actual incident is here.
An update on my boys at Hitch50. They […]

CNN reported a few minutes ago that Rep. Nancy Pelosi, every conservative’s favorite straw-liberal, had indeed been unanimously selected by her caucus to become Speaker of the House. I am quite happy with the news, because despite the Right’s attempts to turn her into the Liberal bogey(wo)man of their nightmares, she seems a good choice. […]

This came in yesterday from the UPI:
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer appeared to kick Sen. John Kerry out of a Democratic leadership walk in Washington, a reporter who witnessed the event said.
An ABC News reporter said the incident occurred Tuesday outside of the Old Senate Chamber as members of the new Democratic leadership, of which Kerry […]

I stumbled by this opinion letter from the Lincoln News Messenger out of Lincoln, CA, recently and was once again amazed at the opinion of the Democratic Party/Liberalism in some corners of this country. This is not an isolated letter. This is the opinion of many people in this country, and if we are ever […]

This morning’s Globe contains an AP article in which Sen. Joe Lieberman says that he will begin the session caucusing with the Democrats, but “won’t be ruling out” switching allegiances. He will be “beholden to no political group except the people of Connecticut and, of course, my conscience.” With the Senate at 51-49, and Sen. […]

I have no eloquence to bring to this day, no long posts remarking on the great sacrifices and great victories wrought from the men and women of our armed forces. Nothing I could write would encompass the immense debt we owe to all those who have served our country. They are heroes not just in […]

Our esteemed executive has taken the opportunity, while spending a few hours actually in the commonwealth he was elected to govern, to … well … govern, kind of. In what has become something of a ritual, Willard has picked up his pen and overruled the Legislature again, freezing state spending. This move comes after the […]

While Tuesday was a huge win for Democratic America is was not so much for liberal America. While it may be great that he can’t fall off again for a while, humpty did fall off the wall, and putting him back together again is going to be really difficult. The Democrats may have taken control […]

Now that most of the votes are in, it’s time to celebrate the change that was set in motion last night. Deval Patrick is our Governor, and this is just a preview of what is to come:

This was not a victory just for me. This was not a victory just for Democrats. […]

Tonight was a great night for Massachusetts and the country. We’ve got a governor who respects his constituents and who has a positive agenda to move the state forward. We’ve returned a mostly progressive Congressional delegation to Washington. And they’ll return to a House of Representatives in which they’ll be part of the majority, which […]

AHHHH!!! Oh sorry, I’m glad I’ll never have to get used to seeing that. Bye Bye Kerry Healey. It looks like you are no better at winning the state, then you were at winning the Essex 6th…Goodbye to your administration that pushed our state back 15 years. Goodbye to your lies, your culture of hate […]

Nothing personal against the Senator from Rhode Island, but I am quite glad that he’ll not hold that position after the next couple months. MSNBC (can’t stand Wolf and Fox News is for gloating puposes only) reports that Sheldon Whitehouse has defeated the actually-moderate Lincoln Chafee in their race. Sen Chafee, I really did like […]

Totally ridiculous and un-important, but the race in Virginia’s 5th Congressional district is between Virgil Goode and Al Weed, making this the Goode-Weed election. Awesome. Also, I’m sorry for bringing this to your attention, but we’re excited right now and so we’re laughing at things we might not usually.
More importantly: Brown and Casey are projected […]

MSNBC REPORTS: DEVAL PATRICK WINS MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR RACE.

This is a little late, but with no idea about tonight’s outcomes, I thought that I would share this clip from last week’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” via One Good Move::

Talking Point # 2 “When they say the terrorists want the Democrats to win. You say, are you insane? George Bush has been a […]