There may be a lot of disagreement on how far we still have to go with racism, in this country. But there should be no dispute about how far we’ve come. Jim Crow laws were still in effect in my lifetime. Today, that kind of open, institutional…

According to a military source, “This new symbol for the red cross was reported as being currently ready to be instated to our military medical facilities in the near future. . .

According to a military source, “This new symbol for the red cross was reported as being currently ready to be instated to our military medical facilities in the near future. . .

According to a military source, “This new symbol for the red cross was reported as being currently ready to be instated to our military medical facilities in the near future. . .

Everyone’s favorite Cylon, Tricia Helfer, is baring it all for Playboy.

Number Six, clothes zero.
Tricia Helfer, darling of Donalda and sex-oozing Cylon of TV’s hit Battlestar Galactica, is baring all in the latest Playboy.
What’s th…

Everyone’s favorite Cylon, Tricia Helfer, is baring it all for Playboy.

Number Six, clothes zero.
Tricia Helfer, darling of Donalda and sex-oozing Cylon of TV’s hit Battlestar Galactica, is baring all in the latest Playboy.
What’s th…

A California died over the weekend after participating in a “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” radio promotion.
The Sacramento news stations report water intoxication.
The results of a preliminary investigation released Saturday showed evidence &#8…

I like the guy – he really seems passionate about not liking the way things are going, and has some good writers behind him. Sometimes he tries too hard, like with the 1984 thing, but this is not often (at least from what I’ve seen).

If you haven’t watched the Worst Person in the World sections, they are definitely worth the watch.

Hoping that Olbermann can get those ratings and that viewership up, I think Americans need to hear someone like him regularly.

MLK Day stands alone as the one national holiday not commercialized, trivialized, or ignored. Think about it. Christmas should be the first thing that leaps to mind — over-hyped holiday sales and ACLU-enforced secularization of the day so that any…

if this headline were tweaked just a little bit? New Orleans struggles to keep its black character Could you imagine the outrage if some community were to be trying to keep its “white character”? Sorry folks — racism is racism…

I’m starting the OTA early because I’m likely to be unavailable most of the weekend. Just leave a post and you’ll get a trackback ping from me. Since I send trackbacks manually, it may take awhile for it to show up. Sorry ’bout that…sincerely ….

Some interesting writing, too. He had me right up until the 1984 reference… I mean, I did have a spooky feeling at the start of the Iraq war when none of the networks seemed to question or even, you know, attempt to explain the sudden Iraq==9/11 spin that came shooting straight out of the clear blue sky, and since then have railed numerous times at individual reporters simply not asking ANY difficult, or even elementary, questions. I began to feel that perhaps all the question asking journalists had been fired or told to shut up. Yes, that did seem 1984: but, the Daily Show and Air America were allowed to exist, as were blogs, so I did not sink into utter despair. Non-traditional media were there if people wished to seek them out. The stories were being told: Al Franken was never “disappeared”.
This clip represents a mainstream editorialist ripping strips off Bush with which to tile his roof. Wow. But watching him made me celebrate that 1984 did not, in fact, happen.

WASHINGTON | The “surge” of U.S. forces in Iraq that President Bush announced Wednesday