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Mainstream media duped again

Today’s New York Times features a story about a widely quoted McCain surrogate. Problem is, he doesn’t exist. It’s yet another example of the way journalism has abandoned the usual source checks in order to keep up with the 24-hour news cycle. The hoaxer has a website and the reporters and pundits who made use […]

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Yo, whitey, you daid

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Of racism, food, memory and Obama’s victory

I spent 2.5 hours waiting to vote yesterday. I was surprised to see that my Grant Park polling place was selling an assortment of processed junk food and soft drinks Although, I saw nobody buying the stuff, I was glad to know that if my blood sugar fell during the wait, help was nearby. I […]

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Woman remains tranquil while interviewing snake

I don’t watch TV. It’s nothing elitist; I’ve just never been into it, even as a child. I know I miss a lot. I do however listen to the radio in my car, mainly Air America, and I long ago chose (Dr.) Rachel Maddow as my favorite host there. She now has her own TV […]

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Evidence that wing-nutism is a mental illness

I have written columns in the past about the notion that far-right-wing conservatism has the appearance of mental illness at times. Here’s a case in point with Michelle Bachmann. Her rhetoric is strange enough but her bizarre smiling and silences add to the effect. A further compounding effect is that Chris Matthews, while repeating the […]

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More reality

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Igor loses the debate

Does body language express anything important?

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A taste of reality

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Joan Baez, the original peacenik

One of the icons of the civil rights movement and the protest against the Vietnam War was Joan Baez. When I was in my early teens, I listened to her records and strummed along with my guitar, prompting my Republican parents to go nuts. I saw her in concert a few times and interviewed her […]

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1968 all over again?

UPDATE BELOW As soon as the Iraq invasion occurred, those of us who were around to protest the Vietnam War felt like we were reliving history. We were quickly derided as unpatriotic (just as we were back then) for suggesting that America was about to rush into a quagmire it could not win. Meanwhile, our […]

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