Rent Still Too Damn High
He didn't win the governorship of New York, but Jimmy McMillan of the Rent's 2 High Party did get his single of the same name out on the same day.…
The Rally Takes a Capra Turn
After its morality plays and its songs, its crow participation and its scripted skits, The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, having vanquished Fear, in the form of Steven Colbert’s…
How Glenn Beck Spent the ‘Rally to Restore Sanity’
It seemed the opposite of sanity that on the day of Jon Stewart’s big rally with Steven Colbert on the National Mall, that Glenn Beck, who inspired the gesture with…
Where are Today’s Daniel Ellsbergs?
In the nearly 40 years since Daniel Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, exposing how the U.S. got involved in the Vietnam War at a time when the country was still…
Obama On Dylan: No Cheesin’
“Here's what I love about Dylan,” Barack Obama tells Rolling Stone magazine in the current issue. “He was exactly as you'd expect he would be.” That is to say, for…
When Hate Hijacks the News
I’m supposed to help spread the word about a peace march my Quaker Meeting is putting on in a couple of weeks. Hmm. What chance do we have in attracting…