This picture is apparently very, very, damning evidence that Senator George “Macaca” Allen is totally 100% racist. MORE »

It’s always edifying when an organization lives up to its stereotype. Wouldn’t it be silly if The Nation endorsed Bill Moyers for president? Yeah, it would.

Moyers would enter the 2008 race with far more practical political experience than Dwight Eisenhower had in 1952, far more national name recognition than Jimmy Carter had in 1976 and far more to offer the country than most of our recent chief executives. MORE »

The Nation’s blog (called, irritatingly, “The Notion”) has a charming little piece about the Italian Elections, a fitting political obituary for Silvio Berlusconi: MORE »

Listen carefully, there will be a quiz. MORE »

Boy, we sure can’t bring ourselves to have an opinion about that whole Danish cartoon thing. Believe us, we tried. We briefly considered posting nothing but crudely-drawn cartoons of Mohammed making fun of hospital bed-bound amputee American soldiers (caption: “Christ, what an asshole.”), as that would finally unite Islamic Militants and the American Military establishment against a common enemy, but eh, we’re lazy. And a little tipsy. So we decided to take our cue on how to respond from our Opinion Leaders who blog in the name of their various money-losing magazines. MORE »