...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...

It seems appropriate to mark this day with some musique d'occasion. This isn't a random list by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a few tunes that occurred to me as possibly being appropriate as we send the Worst. President. Ever. into the dustbin of history and welcome the dawning of a new e...

...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...

OK, not really. And I apologize to all of my readers who may now find it difficult to get that image out of their heads. I sympathize, it's not one I want in my head, either. But it looks as if we're going to be stuck with it for at least the next couple of years. And it looks as if I can add Roland...

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 ...