About a month ago, I happened upon a site called “The Good Men Project”. Immediately both my interests and my hackles were raised. I was interested because I believe the common role of men in society is too limiting and the anti-emotionality, anti-intellectualism, and one-way sexuality messages given to men is actively dangerous. I was [...]
Charles Krauthammer has a defense of politics-as-usual. And he is actually right about a couple of things – democracy is supposed to be messy and our government is supposed to be ponderously slow. But he’s very much wrong about several things, too. When he talks about the debt ceiling theater, he writes: But they did [...]
Via the Washington Post I hear that Mitt Romney thinks corporations are people: “Corporations are people, my friend,” Romney said. Some people in the front of the audience shouted, “No, they’re not!” “Of course they are,” Romney said. “Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. Where do you think it goes?” Corporations are not people. [...]
The Washington Post says that Democrats want a “bolder” Obama. Dee Dee Myers is quoted: “The president has shown himself unwilling to just dig in on a position,” said Dee Dee Myers, who was Bill Clinton’s White House press secretary. “He’s for jobs. I’ve heard him say that. He’s for being the grown-up in the [...]
Newsweek’s cover of Michelle Bachman is causing a stir. Of course, there is no shortage of conservatives/Republicans who are blaming ideology for a bad picture. But how short memories are. The problem is, apparently, Newsweek doesn’t know how to hire a photographer who knows how to take a decent photo of a woman. Is it [...]
Michael Gerson has an op-ed at the Washington Post that tries to find a way to hold religion accountable for political influence. It’s a good idea, and I think he has some good take-away lines (like: “This use of religion in politics is a source of cynicism. It should raise alarms when the views of [...]
