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Political Culture: How to Take a “Leap of Faith” … and Fall Flat on Your Ass
As a disastrous new show stumbles toward Broadway and "Glee" rebounds from its worst episode, can issues of religious belief inspire decent musical theatre? Jon Cummings has his doubts
Read More »Political Culture: Americans, Running Hot N Cold
Katy Perry's aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy of the current political climate. Jon Cummings considers the merits of Katy's cleavage and other
Read More »Political Culture: The Not-So-Great Society
Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar fashion. Americans, it seems, have declared open season upon one
Read More »Political Culture: All Politics Is Local (Unfortunately)
Americans' loathing for politicians has reached historic levels -- and as Jon Cummings discovered, a squalid local race in one California county justifies their disdain
Read More »Political Culture: Reasons to Be Hopeful (Or Not) on Tax Day
Happy Tax Day! A special shout-out to those of you who are operating under the delusion that your taxes have gone up this year – a belief shared by a slim majority of Americans,
Read More »Political Culture: Partisan Bipartisanship
A couple of extraordinary things happened this past week. One was a big f’ing deal indeed, but the other was a bit more personal. As Sunday night’s Democratic victory on health care turned into
Read More »Political Culture: How To Train Your Teafoxlican
We’re supposedly just three days away from the final House votes on health care, and still nobody’s sure how it’s going to go. If you listen to Fox News, there’s no way Nancy Pelosi
Read More »Political Culture: Let Obama Be Bartlet (Or at Least Bush)
The most thrilling, and also the most ridiculous, presidential speech of modern times came not from an actual president, but from a fake one. Michael Douglas’ off-the-cuff remarks at the close of The American
Read More »Political Culture: Those Condescending Elites!
Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had her devotees eating (and the rest of us reading) out
Read More »Political Culture: The Boston Tea Party
Whether or not Democrats manage to salvage health care legislation, losing Ted Kennedy's seat is just desserts for their substantive and strategic failures
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