Every time he puts his racist foot in his fat mouth, Rush Limbaugh’s fans insist it’s all in good fun. They use words like satirist and provocateur. If stick-in-the- mud progressives or anyone with a modicum of common decency eschews such descriptions, they start waving the First Amendment and the blowhard’s undeniably large audience. He [...]

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz nailed “The Hammer,” Tom DeLay over comments the former House Majority Leader made on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. DeLay-who in case you forgot–is still under indictment for alleged funny money business–told Candy Crowley unemployment extensions were dangerous because such a safety net only fuels a lazy citizenry. When a skeptical [...]

After he’s done with his stint as chair of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele should shop himself around for an deodorant commercial. The guy–who’s had to bob and weave around a swarm of Republican Party snafus ( some of his own making)–never seems to break a sweat.
On Thursday, after the website POLITICO published [...]

Should Avatar director James Cameron lose out to his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow,director of The Hurt Locker,the self-anointed “King of the World” who picked up a few Oscar accolades a dozen plus years ago for Titanic, can put the defeat in perspective. Many of his venerable predecessors and esteemed contemporaries never scored Oscar gold.
Alfred Hitchcock was [...]

That short national nightmare known as the ‘Bunning filibuster’ is finally over. The tone deaf lame duck GOP senator from Kentucky finally freed jobless benefits and other entitlement extensions from the grips of his political grandstanding last night. The new bill–which will extend unemployment and C.OB.R.A. as well as fund some construction projects–passed the Senate by [...]