They gotta eat the bird cause Obama don't give'm no beef. There is a good reason for the Republicans to hate Obama but it is only mentioned behind closed doors, they have no real policy disagreements with him. He's a bloody handed warmonger, he kisses bank ass, he protected the worst polluter in his...

you might be a philistine... if you think access to information is democracy's historical mission.

A friend showed me a Michelle Malkin column reacting (how very fitting) to the sparring over Big Bird. She pointed out that Seasame Street is a hot commercial property with or without public funding and that Big Bird himself is a corporate political entity. All I could think was that the true believ...

You know you are a philistine when Republicans = fascists. Do ya mean if ya wrote something like this? What does this history have to do with what is going on today—or with the issue of affirmative action? The broad left of which we are a part, all segments of the labor movement, are gearing up for ...

You know you are a Philistine when you support the President because you hope that he will 'turn to the left' after being re-elected.

- BP

You know you are a Philistine when you refuse to peel that old "Kucinich for President" sticker off your bumper.

- BP

This is the kind of thing you get from the "enlighten" folks. I hear this shit all the time. Not from regular working folks who I work with every day, but from those who are somehow "elevated", by their "educations". Makes me sick.

- Dhalgren

You know you are a Philistine when you insist on attaching an adjective to the word "Capitalism", as in "Crony Capitalism", "Financial Capitalism", "Disaster Capitalism", "Shock Capitalism", "Unregulated Capitalism", Private-Equity Capitalism, or that old standby, "Greedy Capitalism". It is Capitali...

You know you are a Philistine when you are constantly bedeviled by conspiracies, cabals, sell-outs, disappointments, human nature and corruptions of all types. Oh, those things certainly exist. More, they are ever-present. But when those deviations on what you take to be the norm are the dominant fo...

You know you are a Philistine (and a complete tool of the ruling class) when you think that voters - the great mass of people - are stupid (ignorant, apathetic, uninformed, uninterested, "vote against their own interests", etc.) AND at the same time, you think that politics are the same as electoral...