Bye Y’all

It’s been a pleasure guest blogging with Michael and Thomas and attempting to fill the 2-day void left by Steve. I hope to see ya’ around the blogosphere, -zoe kentucky of demagogue (a political polyblog)

The overstated shrillness of the Democratic Party

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Okay, I’d like to get provocative. And I’d like to do so by referring favourably, more or less, to a certain bow-tied conservative commentator. No, not Tucker Carlson, but George Will — to me, one of the more palatable right-wing pundits, an old-fashioned tory who often breaks from the […]

Purveyors of doubt: Intelligent design, relativism, and the postmodern right

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Yesterday, I published a post on intelligent design wherein I argued, via Christopher Hitchens, that it may now be the time for those of us who defend the theory of evolution and otherwise live in the real world to take on the claims of intelligent design and those right-wing […]

The Death of “Special Rights”?

(posted by guest blogger zoe kentucky) Was the Rev. Jerry Falwell drunk when he appeared on “The Situation with Tucker Carlson” earlier this month? [TUCKER] CARLSON: Jerry Falwell, I notice you wrote a piece supporting Mr. Roberts. Are you rethinking that? [Because of the news of Roberts’s work on Romer v. Evans] FALWELL: Oh, not […]

Why The Movies Have Gone Bad

Guest Post by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver Okay, okay, I admit right up front that any list of ten “dark clouds” we face as a nation should very likely not include the question of whether or not we can survive an onslaught of bad entertainment. However, I have been reading a lot of posts of late […]

Randy “Duke” Cunningham-Real Estate Tycoon

Guest Post by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver I’m always surprised by the number of Righties who think that John “Duke” Wayne was a great American patriot, since it was common knowledge in Hollywood during the Second World War that he was the biggest draft dodger in the movie industry – his reputation as an American hero […]

Sexing Intelligence

(Posted by guest blogger zoe kentucky of demagogue.) By way of Atrios we learn that there is a provocative new British study that I’m sure we’ll hear about ad nauseum. Academics in the UK claim their research shows that men are more intelligent than women. A study to be published later this year in the […]

Victory in Iraq

Guest Post by Zoe Kentucky Sometimes I love Cal Thomas. The following lyrics should be sung to the tune of “Blowin’ in the Wind.” How many times can this nation draw down, When faced with a difficult war? Haven’t we seen what retreat has produced, Whenever we’ve tried it before? With polls showing a decline […]

The Dark Cloud of the Dominionists

Guest Post by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver Yesterday, one of those intelligent souls who commented on my post about “dark clouds” said that the darkest cloud was that created by fundamentalism. I have to say I could not agree more. As a friend of mine once pointed out, the words Christian, Jew, Moslem and Hindu are […]

Iraq’s pre-constitutional crisis

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Nothing seems to be going right in Iraq, militarily or politically, and yesterday there was yet another setback: Talks over the Iraqi constitution reached a breaking point on Thursday, with a parliamentary session to present the document being canceled and President Bush personally calling one of the country’s most […]