Category: Larger Editorials

The most popular punching bag of the last thirty years is the hyper-divisive beast known as “The Social Conservative.” This is the guy or gal who has inserted themselves as the “nay” vote in all of today’s most heated cultural wedge issues, and has fought against everything from gay Civil Rights to allowing women easier…

As pretty much everyone knows, this Friday’s Mega Millions drawing is at a record amount of 500 million dollars, or a “half a billion” if you want it to sound even more impressive. That’s not merely a lottery winning pot to make people salivate. No, that’s Tom Cruise money right there, and enough to buy,…

A quick refresher just for anyone who doesn’t spend all that much time thinking about Super-PACs or the Supreme Court: A few years ago, the five supreme court justices who are conservative (i.e. Republican, and generally do things that favor the Republican Party like stopping the recount of votes in Florida when Gore was within…

“Romney is the strongest to face Obama in the Fall, because he appeals the most to moderate voters.” This is a line of thinking so often repeated, that it’s just assumed as a given to be correct. I mean, surely the candidate who is most moderate would obviously appeal to independent voters, since, he’s in…

Tuesday brought one of the craziest races I have ever seen, and it was even more notable that not a soul in the television media talked about it. No, I’m not talking about how Mitt very narrowly beat Santorum the same way Bush squeaked past Kerry in 2004. I’m talking about the REAL race that…

The world had a pretty good week. Romney reclaimed his mantle as Republican party frontrunner which means we probably won’t have to endure Rick Santorum’s War with Every Muslim in the World (or War on Homosexuality). Despite all of Iran’s boasting, it’s still very unlikely they’ll be a nuclear-capable country anytime soon. And, best of…

It’s hard to remember a front-runner of a major political party’s presidential nomination who not only played the religious card, but essentially had no other cards in his deck. Rick Santorum doesn’t just want you to know he’s a Christian, that’s seemingly all he wants you to know. Not only that, but he is fanatically…

So for the past three years—-doesn’t it feel like Christie’s been on the scene a lot longer than that?—-we’ve all fallen for the “story” of current New Jersey Governor and lifetime fat fuck Chris Christie. How he’s basically Tony Soprano without a gun (that we know of). How he’s brash, bold, tough, and, say it…

As perhaps even polar bears in Alaska know, one of the most emulated singers in contemporary pop music, Whitney Houston died this past week. Ever since has been a formidable flash flood of press coverage. Twitter has blown up, Facebook has exploded, CNN won’t shut up about it, and one day I checked Yahoo and…

Rolling on with our one year anniversary week, here I count down my personal favorite ten items that ran in the last year. I’m not saying they’re the BEST ones necessarily and there are dozens of runner-ups I couldn’t list, but I think this gives a pretty good summation of what the site’s all about….

I know this race is already about played out and most of you are probably ready to hear about something but…too bad, for now at least because an observation really struck me this week that this race is unlike any other I’ve ever seen. Now most of you might say “Well no shit,” but what…

Evvvvvvery once and a while I get to “meet” a celebrity (usually meaning I deliberately bump into them so they’ll say “Watch it” and I can count it as “A conversation with Robin Williams”) but even more rare is when I meet one that I genuinely love their work and career. That happened last night…