Evidently, “cooperation” means rolling over backwards.  The Democratic/Republican “compromise,” which passed the House today and is on its way to the Senate, grant retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that engaged in warrantless, unconstitutional spying, at the behest of the Bush administration.  The bill in question is “The FISA Amendments Act” (H.R. 6304).   This is [...]

That McCain has gone back and forth on a lot of his “maverick” stances is common knowledge, but seeing him contradict himself so blatantly really drives the point home: Robert Greenwald and his crew have put together a site called therealmccain.com to highlight these sorts of things (there are too many to call them “slip [...]

. . . on the whole Hillary business.

Pensive Haden, originally uploaded by wheat. I uploaded a few recent Haden pix. I also decided to try out sharing a few video clips via Flickr. But I set those to “friends and family” only. So, if you belong in either of those categories, but don’t have a flickr account (you only need the free [...]