Snackman or Cigarette Guy? Chip-chomping subway peace-keeper Charles Sonder, 24, says, "I get enough dates without Snackman's help."It's hard to imagine there's anyone who still hasn't heard about the legendary exploits of Snackman, chip-chomping enfor... »
Do the three fingers mean that the governor plans to tell only three lies, or that he's only telling three lies at this exact moment?carte blanche n.. Unrestricted power to act at one's own discretion; unconditional authority. [Fr.: carte, document + b... »
The Audubon Terrace complex at Broadway and 155th Street, on part of the property once owned by naturalist-painter John James Audubon, must have been quite a sight when it was built, roughly between 1906 and 1930. The developers' assumption that Manhat... »
Of course we've been all over Norman Solomon's campaign to replace the retiring Lynn Woolsey and Dr. Lee Rogers' campaign down in the L.A. area to take out arch-reactionary and warmonger Buck McKeon. Both are on our Blue America page and both are major... »
California's 25th CD has been, politically speaking, one of the sleepiest in the state. A humongous district, it stretched from the northeast corner of L.A. (Santa Clarita) east and north through the Antelope Valley, Mojave Desert, Death Valley, Owens ... »
Investigative journalist Dina Rasor is now on the Buck McKeon beat-- not good news for an embattled incumbent drowning in a series of serious scandals, some just ethical, but at least one also criminal. She's especially dangerous to McKeon, chair of th... »
This year, one of the most important initiatives for progressive legislators-- in Washington and in the states-- is to work on creating housing security by holding the Wall Street banksters, who the Obama Administration and DC's Conservative Consensus ... »
They all want corporate, anti-Choice Democrat, Matt Goetten, to win the race for Illinois’ newly drawn 13th Congressional District.Illinois’ 13th District is poised to be the Illinois showdown between a progressive and corporate-backed Durbincrat… and,... »
I was up just before 4 today. The first tweet I saw was from John Boehner pointing to a pro forma statement he issued to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, for him another excuse for the House not being in session or working towards the ideals Martin ... »
California working families had good political news this week with the announced retirements of reactionary congressmen Elton Gallegly and the even more heinous Mormon fanatic Wally Herger. And then there are the rumors, which grow louder by the day, t... »
I probably shouldn't get all worked up. Just skimming the report yesterday by Texas on the Potomac I noticed some errors, but... Jerry Lewis being among even an error-ridden "12 most endangered incumbents of 2012" is the kind of thing that makes my wor... »
I can't say it's any more than a hunch that Trump is-- and has long been-- kinda-sorta working to reelect President Obama. And I don't mean that he's stumbling around so pathetically that sane people are revolted and want to run away from the GOP as fa... »
Yesterday the L.A. Times ran an interesting year in review editorial: Congress' 10 Biggest Enemies of the Earth. For a Republican-owned and slanted newspaper it was shockingly on the money. The 10 biggest enemies are all characters we've discussed here... »
Jeez, you couldn't make this stuff up. Does it ever occur to the brain-obliteratin savages of Crap Christianity that God is keeping tabs on them? No, probably not -- if they were capable of processing that tiny bit of logic, they wouldn't be, yoy know,... »
If there was ever really a truth-telling Dr. Jekyll component of the supposedly Jekyll-and-Hyde-like Wall Street Journal holed up in the newsroom, it seems to have passed safely into oblivion.by KenAdmirers of the pre-Murdoch Wall Street Journal always... »
