Matt Besser from The Upright Citizens Brigade is touring the South and is making a stop in Nashville:
Wed. Jun 7 @ 7:30pm at Bongo Java Cafe, 2007 Belmont Blvd.
Tix: $8 advance; $10 door
Visit bongojava.com for more info.
Matt writes:
Dear Atheist, Humanist, Secularist, Theist, Cynic, & UCB Fan:
I have a show that Ive been doing for over […]

From Truthout.org: “The New York Times argues that in a country that spends so much time extolling the glories of democracy, it’s amazing how many elected officials go out of their way to discourage voting. States are adopting rules that make it hard, and financially perilous, for nonpartisan groups to register new voters. They have […]

My drive home from work was ruined tonight by a story on Marketplace. According to Dawn Kopecki author of a recent Business Week article, President Bush has given John Negroponte, the intelligence czar, the authority to “exempt any publicly traded corporation that is working on national defense issues or national security issues from the […]

From Democracy Now!
On Wednesday, May 24th, thousands of people in cities across the country will protest the Telephone Companies AT&T, Bell South and Verizon, expressing outrage at the tactics of the major telephone companies (AT&T, Bell South, Verizon and Qwest) to pass National Video Franchising legislation in Congress. The Telcos are spending one million […]

From today’sNY Times:
“WASHINGTON, May 23 — After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration’s assertions of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend.
Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second day on Tuesday after a team of warrant-bearing agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation turned up at a closed […]

…it’s not enough!
We were off last week and we missed you! But not as much as Mary missed ‘The West Wing.’ What’s a girl to do on Sunday night at 7pm? Watch HBO’s Baghdad ER, a powerful reminder that our president has mismanaged the Iraq War, failed our war veterans (200 homeless vets a […]

…it’s not enough!
Our guest in Part 2 is Paul Waldman, senior fellow at Media Matters for America and the author of the just released book, Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives must Learn from Conservative Success. Paul says that liberals need to put on the gloves and start fighting back. He says we need […]

Unexpected hero, Jean Rohe, choose to alter her speech to the graduates of the New School in New York this past week to protest John McCain, who was present at the graduation to receive an award. She spoke right before McCain and was able to use her speech as a preemptive strike against his. This […]

Frank Rich writing in today’s NY Times compares the pr machine behind Sony’s potential blockbuster “The Davinci Code” with the “Washington playbook” used by many politicians over the last decade:
“The Machiavellian mission for the hit-deprived Sony studio was to co-opt conservative religious critics who might depress turnout for a $125-million-plus thriller portraying the Roman Catholic […]

This is what we should be fighting against…too bad we’ve spent all our earnestness fighting a false war in Iraq.