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Ron English - 'Abraham Obama' 100' Banner in Boston

Ron English is an agit-prop artist who has done innumerable interesting and politically charged art installations of various natures throughout the years.  Recently, he created an image he called...

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The *Executive* Pipeline to Nowhere

The NYTimes has a front page article, Palin’s Pipeline Is Years From Being a Reality, up right now that deserves immediate attention.  It examines the central legislative accomplishment that one Sarah...

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GUS — Am I losing My Mind? Gaining a Body?

GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are quitting or...

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Evening GUS — You can't smoke 'em if you don't get 'em.

GUS (Gave Up Smoking) is a community support diary for Kossacks in the midst of quitting smoking. Any supportive comments, suggestions or positive distractions are appreciated. If you are quitting or...

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Erik Prince of Xe / Blackwater Implicated in Killing of Cooperative Govt...

Jeremy Scahill has an article up now at the Nation outlining the details of this story. The company frequently known as Blackwater and frequently dissed for re-branding itself as the Scientology-esque...

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GUS — late-night nonsmoking & ...

... first of all, fellow GUSSACKS, I must apologize for the overwhelming lateness of this diary! I had forgotten about a commitment to attend a dinner/ birfday party for a friend of my girlfriend, and...

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Obama in WaPo - "Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this...

From an interview today with the Washington Post.Really? Come on. We voted for you partly on the idea that you were the candidate who was going to "talk to us like adults." And for the most part, that...

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I love it - the War Room's list of 30 Hacks!

Salon's War Room blog has given us a fun holiday gift — the 30 biggest hacks of current journamalism list! Folks, there is fun for everyone to be had here. Note — it seems they mostly left the FoxNews...

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WTF? Ron Wyden teaming up with Paul Ryan to __ck Medicare

Please folks, someone tell me I'm missing something here. Seriously, anyone, please! There are many here who know more about this subject than I, and I really hope somebody here can explain to me how...

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Josh Marshall on the Barr letter

It’s worth reading Josh Marshall’s recent post on the Barr letter. Read the whole thing, but notice how often he simply says “we need to see the report”. That’s because we need to see the report! AG...

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Susan Rice drops the hammer

I don’t have a lot to add to this op-ed by Susan Rice in today’s New York Times.Here’s the closing paragraph —What must we conclude from all this? At best, our commander in chief is utterly derelict in...

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Quick question - the RNC is over. Seriously! Why air their demented commercials?

Sooo, I tune into MSNBC to see if I am able to stomach coverage of the “RNC”. And what I’m told by Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace, and Joy Ann Reid, is that the actual Republican National Convention is...

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