Category: long story short

Says Kurt Vonnegut, in this short interview from In These Times: “I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers.”

Robert Reich dissects Rove’s Machiavellian chops in “The Rove Machine Rolls On” in The American Prospect, detailing his techniques. Among them: Count on the American public’s (and the media’s) inability to remember anything from one year to the next. The Rove machine gave Bush tough talking points on corporate fraud when the newspapers were full…

San Francisco based film maker and photographer Bijan Yashar will be projecting George W. Bush’s State of the Union address in real time onto the wall of the Shell Station at Market and Sanchez. He will filter the live speech through a camera utilizing extreme and shifting angles to “reveal implicit perspectives and points of…

Matthew Riemer, writing in YellowTimes.org, debunks the notion that criticism of American foreign policy is inherently anti-American.

Mark Kleiman unpacks the Big Lie in the way the right uses the poll-tested shibboleth word “quota” to oppose any and all affirmative action programs.

The political spectrum here in the U.S. has become increasingly muddled over the years. Conservatives adopted the lingo and some of the verities of liberal progressive thought and more recently the rump of the left has toyed with attempting to coopt the aspects of right-wing thought it finds least unpalatable. We’ve got a darling of…