Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In Ayatollah Santorum & The Republic(ans) Of Gilead, we noted some eerie parallels between Margaret Atwood‘s novel The Handmaid’s Tale and a resurgence of the extreme religious right’s influence over the GOP in this presidential election year. The issues are familiar ones: separation of church and state (a …
ARE WE INSANE? Is anxiety, and even depression, a rational response to what passes for reality these days? Chris Hedges seems to think so. Here’s how he frames the issue: Welcome to the Asylum When civilizations start to die, they go insane. . . Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk …
A Heartland Institute billboard along Chicago’s Eisenhower Expressway Last October, in Twilight Zone Candidates, we noted that the then current crop of GOP presidential candidates were forced to out-crazy each other in order to secure the support of the extremist wing of the Rethuglican electorate. We agreed with the conventional wisdom that once the nomination was settled, as it is …
The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Stewart explains that the video of Fischer’s homophobic rant is blurry because it’s being broadcast from 50 years ago Well, that didn’t take long. Two weeks after appointing the openly gay Richard Grenell as his foreign policy spokesman, Cowardly Lyin Willard Romney etch-a-sketched him …
What draining the Swamp of Murdoch has revealed Last year as the details of the Murdoch criminal empire were being unearthed in a formal British government investigation, we wrote: While standard evolutionary theory has it that humans descended from warm blooded mammals, the predatory acts of the world’s most powerful media tycoon, Rupert Murdoch, suggests that somewhere along the way …
Tabernacle of nature When it is not possible to worship God in the tabernacles of nature, men should do their best to provide houses of beauty, sanctuaries of appealing simplicity and artistic embellishment, so that the highest of human emotions may be aroused in association with the intellectual approach to spiritual communion with God. Truth, beauty, and holiness are powerful and …
