...In order for there to be cognitive dissonance there has to be actual, you know, cognition, and that seems in very short supply among Republicans lately. It appears that some of the bloviating blockheads at Fixed Noise are doing that most Republican of things, making an "enemies list." Not surpris...

...But our long national reawakening is just beginning, and will require vigilance from all of us. On Election Day in 2000, I had to go into Chicago to meet with a client who wanted to discuss a new website design. After the meeting, I went to dinner with my collaborator on the project, an old frien...

Republicans are fond of billing themselves as the party of "personal responsibility." But what they seem to mean by that is that everybody else should take personal responsibility for Republicans' failures--because Lord knows they're not likely to do it themselves. Here's a case in point. Nate Silve...

The Republican Party would like to have us believe that it only has the best interests of Illinois voters at heart. Hence, it would also like to have us believe, its interest in pressing for a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by President-Elect Barack Obama. So great is the Republica...

So desperate are the foes of marriage equality in California that Project Marriage, the umbrella coalition of groups trying to amend the state constitution to prohibit same-gender marriages has resorted to blackmail to get businesses to donate money to "protect marriage": Leaders of the campaign to ...

That's a line from the third episode of the second season of The West Wing. It comes at the end of one of Jed Bartlet's famous rants, directed at a prim and proper female radio host who was obviously modeled after "Dr." Laura Schlessinger. But as I was watching the episode on DVD tonight, the though...