This clip, from the 1976 movie “Network,” gave me goosebumps. Of course I’ve heard the famous, “I’m mad as hell” line, but I’ve never seen the movie. This clip I found on Youtube sends a much more powerful message:

I am surprised by how prophetic Mr. Howard Beale’s words were. Notice how the clueless audience […]

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From the 1/10/2008 South Carolina Republican Primary Debates on Fox:

I can’t decide whether these guys, McCain and Thompson, are bigoted war mongers, or just careless jokers.
McCain’s joke simply comes off as racist, but Thompson’s comment struck me as depressingly funny. The kind funny we experience when we laugh at someone like Chris Crocker, and […]

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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
–Thomas Jefferson to C. Yancey, 1816.
Read these short bios and decide who you would vote for:
Candidate A is a former governor from a Democratic state in the Northeast. Before that, he was credited […]

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