Yes, the University of Illinois at Chicago has been employing him, and he is a Distinguished Professor there. So how many people do you know associated with the University of Illinois? Better get them all on the terror watch list.

Posted at October 7, 2008 6:29 PM in response to McCain-Palin Now It's Hatred and Violence - "Kill him!" Be Afraid.

I've been thinking about the same thing. It seems as if that is their new hail mary strategy, except it is a Hail Yigal Amir solution. They seem to be willing to lose the mainstream in order to radicalize their base. Why? And here's the sad thing about the assassination of Rabin -- the goal was halt progress toward peace, and by that measure it succeeded.

Posted at October 7, 2008 6:25 PM in response to McCain-Palin Now It's Hatred and Violence - "Kill him!" Be Afraid.

Exactly -- the investigation was going along just fine when it was an Alaskan matter. Once she was named to the ticket, it was derailed. Pretty clear which was a case of manipulation by the national pols, and which side is doing the manipulating.

Posted at September 6, 2008 2:14 PM in response to Lawyers, Troopergate, and Questions

I'd also highly recommend the segment on Rove vs. Rove, highlighting the complete hypocrisy of the Repubs.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/04/jon-stewart-exposes-rove-hannity-morris-palin-hypocrisy/

Posted at September 6, 2008 9:59 AM in response to Marry Me, Jon Stewart!!! - Last and Final Word

I'd also highly recommend the segment on Rove vs. Rove, highlighting the complete hypocrisy of the Repubs.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/04/jon-stewart-exposes-rove-hannity-morris-palin-hypocrisy/

Posted at September 6, 2008 9:57 AM in response to Marry Me, Jon Stewart!!! - Last and Final Word

The problem isn't the boinking, what I object to is the involvement of underage gibbons. I'm sick and I think America is sick of "Augusta Values".

Posted at August 14, 2008 7:47 AM in response to GOP Sen. Susan Collins: Edwards Is The Father

Freudian analysis of media for subliminal sexual imagery.

Freudian analysis of media? Freud was a psychoanalyst -- are you thinking of Baudrilliard?

In any case, nothing is such ads appears "by chance" and so the double/triple phalluses were someone's idea. Herbert's point about the Paris/Brittney/phalluses imagery only appearing in ads for black male candidates still stands (get it?). Y'all can be as "naive" as you want, but this is sleazy race-baiting. Again.

Posted at August 7, 2008 1:10 PM in response to Keith Olbermann makes an ass of himself

Marshall did use arguments:Obama as a flashy entertainer, the guy reaching above his station, the guy who ends up in video montages with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
And let's not forget that sports and entertainment are the two "acceptable" outlets for black men. Arguing that there isn't a racial overtone of a black man superimposed on pictures of famous oversexualized young white women can only be done with a straight face if you've never watched TV.

Posted at August 1, 2008 6:24 PM in response to Dear Josh Marshall: You make no sense

Well, how about Britt's previous cover depicting Bush and Cheney as husband and wife, with apron (bush) and cigar (Cheney)? I mean, for a homophobic right winger, that's incredibly offensive. Does that cross the same line for you? (See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/13/barry-blitt-addresses-his_n_112432.html )

Personally, I find this about as offensive as Lindsay Bluth on "Arrested Development" -- in many ways she is an exaggeration of a right wing caricature of liberals, but it is so over the top I don't for a moment think that anyone will mistake it for "evidence" that social concern is always egotistical.

Posted at July 14, 2008 4:06 PM in response to The New Yorker's "Ironic" Obama Cover

People don't always vote for people who match them in policy -- they also vote for people of conviction who have different ideas about policy. That is true for few in the Senate as much as it is true for Russ Feingold, who I am proud to claim as my Senator.

Posted at July 10, 2008 6:17 PM in response to Feingold for Obama's VP choice - Opinions?