It's My Country, Too

You give them a few weeks to grow. They give them a chance at a forever home. It's a good deal all round. Please consider fosteri...

Charts charts charts! Check these out, is from Business Insider(be sure to click through the link at the bottom): And lest that not ma...

Ah, hell, I give up. It's amazing how many people post videos of dying mice. We don't have to wait for Hell. We've already...

In the cosmos of Planet Sulzberger , being anti-torture and anti-genocide equals "liberal values": Since the skirmish, which resu...

I was reading this nonsense in the NYTimes this morning: A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8, and similar in...

...before liberals declare war on it! Oops, too late:

Nothing else makes the Christmas season as magical as the Yuletide carols of campaign advertising and the candidates dressed up like Eskimos...

As usual, the right wing's information on the origins of Halloween is as fact-based as the right wing's information on climate chang...

The Joe Arpaio School of Economic Sadism is deeply influential across the southern states, and here's one more proof : Thousands of ot...

Lewis Lapham on America's cultivated fear of the future: The collapse of the World Trade Center in the fall of September 2001 destroyed...

Eugene Debs died today, away back in 1926. As The Daily Bleed said: 1926 -- US: Good Ol'Days? Labor activist, anti-militarist & s...

This is why the loss of the Fairness Doctrine was no joke. That Reagan-engineered surgical strike single-handedly gave us the Murdoch med...

Yesterday we bought a ton of food, cleaning aids, and hygiene products for the folks at Occupy Philadelphia and dropped them off after the ...

Even when all my friends were sweating the Second Coming of Rick Perry and positive he was going to be the next President, I felt certain he...

Even Scientific American is paying attention to #OWS . In a recent article subtitled "The surprising psychology of the Occupy Wall Str...

God evidently needs him . I don't mind saying I thought as much .

Belong to one of the big banks that are about to (yet again) squeeze you for accessing and using your own money? The best part is that som...

Isn't this nice? This is behavior worthy of the Ancien Régime... ...that is, before Marie Antoinette had her final coif under the b...

Yves Smith responds to Melissa Harris-Perry's lazy-ass slur of racism on disillusioned white liberals: So the Democratic party (and r...

He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he called for his Thorazine tea. Now this is what I call a horserace: (Reuters) - ...

I haven't yet read Obama's Big Idea, but if what I read here is true, we may as well kiss the 2012 election good-bye: ...require n...

Once, even against all evidence , I could have accepted the idea that David Brooks was a human being who lived a relatively ordinary life in...

Ah, shit. Give it a rest , already. Every goddamn day is Find A Leftist To Punch Day at Balloon Juice lately. Even when Firedog Lake has ...

The week in Apocalyptica: first an earthquake, and now a hurricane. In the wake of Irene, it was interesting to see this (shorter Eric ...

Do you think this means Steve Jobs is dying? CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apple's Board of Directors today announced that Steve ...