It’s interesting when a regular stringer known for a particular political persuasion or field of interest writes something which illustrates how they frame the dynamics of the debate with which they are engaged, or how they see themselves in the context of that debate.
George Monbiot, once a mainstay of this blog’s critique, has done just […]

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We’ll soon be treated to another fine example of Michael Mooreon’s filmmaking when Sicko is released to theaters across America at the end of next month. The movie is about how horrible American healthcare is, and how great universal healthcare (taxpayer funded, free at point-of-use) would be in comparison. When celluloid is your […]

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Upon being asked about a scene in the film Love Actually wherein Hugh Grant, playing the UK Prime Minister, calls the United States a ‘bully’ and suggests it is “no longer a friend” of the United Kingdom, Blair responds: “When that bit of the film is played, often the audiences would applaud at the end […]

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What an exciting day for citizens of France who identify with the values of individualism and the principles of liberty. “Au revoir, Jacques Chirac, and bonjour to a new U.S.-friendly French president who identifies with the American dream and happily affirms that the French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice,” the Washington Post reports […]

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