SYNDICATED COLUMN: Factchecking the Factcheckers
In a Media Without Real Journalists, Lies Become True When fact-checking organizations like Politifact and Factcheck.org appeared a few years ago, they seemed like perfect antidotes to a lazy, corrupt...
View ArticleThe Leveraged Buyout of the United States
Mitt Romney bought companies through LBOs: borrowing the purchase price using the target company itself as collateral, then selling off the profitable parts and cutting loose employees to turn a...
View ArticleHorror Movie Justice
What if horror movies were real? Perhaps the people who are voting for Obama despite his murderous drone policies, endorsement of torture of Bradley Manning and others, post-foreclosure suicides, etc....
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: Our Contempt is Bipartisan
Both Zombie Parties Too Stubborn To Admit They’re Dead Neither party gets it. They both think they won. And they sort of did. But we still hate them. Democrats are patting themselves on the back,...
View ArticleLOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: California’s Moribund State GOP
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles). This week: The California electorate is changing in composition and creed. The GOP...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: Fooled Again
Six Weeks After Reelection, Obama Sells Out Liberal Democrats After the election Kerry Eleveld wrote a piece for The Atlantic titled “Why Barack Obama Will Be a More Effective Liberal in His Second...
View ArticleThird Term
The president’s defenders told liberals and progressives that Obama would burst out as a liberal during his second term. But he renewed 99.5% of Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. He nominated Chuck Hagel,...
View ArticleWe Only Fight When We Can’t Win
President Obama’s second inaugural address was a barnstormer: aggressive, expressing a strong liberal vision, even merely progressive. Where was this man four years ago, when he actually had a chance...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: Is the GOP Doomed? Slightly Less than the Dems
In a Two-Party System, the Loser is Us Stalin called bourgeois parties “the dancing bears of social democracy.” Toothless and undignified distractions, these non-movements personify the function of...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: “90 Days” of BS, “90 Days” to Sell Out
IN WHICH I CALL OUT HIPSTERS AND CELEBRITIES FOR THE RIDICULOUS ARGUMENTS THEY GAVE FOR VOTING FOR OBAMA Politicians get called to account for their broken promises. So too should their celebrity...
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