Rick's Rants

Air America’s Morning Sedition program this morning featured readings from
Living Under Fascism DAVID LOEHR, Ph.D., Minister / First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Texas 7nov04

You may wonder why anyone would try to use the word %u201Cfascism%u201D in a serious discussion of where America is today. It sounds like cheap name-calling, or melodramatic allusion to a [...]

Morally exhausted and intellectually bankrupt, David Brooks, the New York Times resident right wing apologist, finds a new frontier in the threats to the traditional marriage — women having their own bank accounts>

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: To Have and to Hold, for Richer for Poorer
The larger, far more important [...]

Salon.com News | Among the believers

Rick Santorum:”I know there are some people who may be economic conservatives and not consider themselves cultural conservatives,” he said. Addressing himself to them, he tried to explain how banning gay marriage is crucial to laissez-faire governing. “Think about those communities where marriage does not exist,” he said, invoking their [...]

from Baghdad Burning this eloquent post on a slice of life in Baghdad.

Last week my cousin needed to visit the current Ministry of Higher Education. After the ministry building was burned and looted, the employees had to be transferred to a much, much smaller building in another part of the city. My cousin’s wife [...]

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel & Dimed, contributes an article to The Nation which brings up what is to my mind the most important factor of the “evangelical vote.” It has little to do with any “values” language, much to do with the creation of an alternative system for the delivery of services which competes [...]

The best political columnist at the New York Times is Frank Rich. He is thoughtful, has a wide frame of reference, and is not afraid to call out what he sees. Last year became the editor of the Arts and Entertainment section, so his writing moved from there from the Opinion page. His column [...]