Idiot Wind: The Eternal Return of the Politics of the1970s | Common Dreams

Don Lemon Foiled Again by the Transgender Thing

The Lightning Bug's Lair: Starship Troopers (1997): To Fight the Bugg, You Have to Understand the Bugg. (Would You Like To Know More?)

8 Ways Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Show More Leadership Than Our “Leaders” | | AlterNet

The Founding Fathers Believed in Redistributing Wealth — Why Do Tea Party Heroes Like Perry and Bachmann Vilify It? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

Is Rolling Stone Magazine Dead? A Cover Story Nets Just 2000 New Fans – hypebot

Obama Blog: A revealing chart:  The chart below shows the gross internal debt in the U.S. from 1920 to 2010. It is one of many indicators that show the economic predicamen…

The Military Industrial Complex at 50 | War Is A Crime .org

Donald Trump shows how bad off the wealthy have it

Guess What? Most “Buttons” You Push Only Exist to Make You Feel Like You Have Control Over Your Life | | AlterNet

The History of The Right's Religious War | Crooks and Liars

Freakonomics Poll: Should Being a Parent Require a License?

How Much Money Could The Defense Department Save If It Stopped Trying To Save Souls? | War Is A Crime .org

Open thread for night owls

Why 'Constitutional Conservatives' Like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry Have No Respect for the Constitution | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

Rick Perry has a funny definition of 'miracle'

Yvonne Cook Riley: The Invention of Transgender

The Punk Patriot: Capitalism: Abandoned Homes and Gardens Rot While …: “I love capitalism. The homeless starve without a roof over their head, while abandoned homes (that belong to the banks) grow bountiful gard…”

Stone Soup Station: Barbare Ehrenreich: “things have gotten much worse…: “‘I never thought …I hadn’t realized …’   Thanks the Gods, the stars, the Ancients, or your nearest Higher Power for people like Barbara Eh…”

NYU’s Nouriel 'Dr. Doom' Roubini: ‘Karl Marx Was Right’ | Common Dreams

Facing Ninth Deployment, Army Ranger Kills Himself. 'No Way' That God Would Forgive Him For What He'd Seen, Done, He Told Wife | Crooks and Liars

A question of class

The Tea Party: the conspiracy branch of the Republican Party

Chris Matthews Needs to Take a Look in the Mirror if He Wants to Know Why We're Not Seeing Union Protests on TV | Video Cafe

The Punk Patriot: Bahrain: Shouting In The Dark: “From Al Jazeera English

The untold story of Bahrain

Bahrain: An island kingdom in the Arabian Gulf where the Shia Muslim majori…”

Herman Cain Quotes Pokémon Theme Song | Video Cafe

Another Closeted Gay Republican? It's Getting Awfully Crowded In There | Crooks and Liars

Sanders Says He Doesn't Know Who Would Step Up to Primary Obama | Common Dreams

Republicans directly to blame for S&P credit downgrade

Sandcastles of Capitalism Crumbling | Common Dreams

Freedom's just another word …

“We the corporations”

The Partisanship Canard | Common Dreams

Mitt Romney: Corporations Are People! – Updated With Hecklers | Crooks and Liars