Politics and its Discontents

I take this blog seriously. In it, I try to offer informed aggregation and commentary, and hope that I am never needlessly cruel or uncouth....

A little something for those Canadians who pine for the re-opening of the border to Amerika.  Rarely have I seen such a sterling expression ...

With a pathological liar as its president, it probably does not come as a shock that many Americans live in an alternate reality. Promoted...

I love Rachel Maddow. Some of the reasons for my ardour are on display in the following video from her show. Enjoy. Visit NBCNews.com for ...

I guess free speech is something Republicans only value when they export their democratic principles.

For a country that seems to have a messianic zeal for exporting its freedom and democracy to other countries, the United States doesn'...

Or at least some of you. Only in America, eh?

[Sigh,] and some say this is the best the Republicans have to offer in the next election.

In a shameless but hardly surprising display of partisan hypocrisy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) referred to the Occupy Wall Str...

So says Republican Presidential nomination hopeful Herman Cain . Expressing his disdain for the Occupy Wall Street movement, Cain seems at a...