July 19, 2017• Books, Comics and Graphic Novels, Popdose Interviews
Artist/writer Greg Ruth looks at Geronimo, The Lost Boy, the mystery at The White Lodge and more....
September 25, 2013• Current Events
Dw DUNPHY: Well, now that Syria has vanished from the front pages, Big Tea has refocused on the fight they really wanted: Running the...
November 16, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
GOP: Time to give the Outrage Loop a rest....
November 2, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
When nothing short of the ultimate punishment will do......
October 19, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
Battling Multiple-Choice Mitt might have blunted Obama's Denver debacle....
September 10, 2012• Popblerd!
After nearly 2 decades, singer, bassist & producer Andre Cymone emerges with "America," whose proceeds are dedicated to campaign...
May 9, 2012• Current Events, Political Culture
The president's support for gay marriage opens a new front in his battle for re-election -- but its historical importance will reverberate...
October 19, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
Can't the populist right and left just get along?...
August 9, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
How did the Tea Party force a stupid deal, prove itself unfit to govern ... AND simultaneously send the economy over a cliff? Jon Cummings...
January 20, 2011• Current Events, Political Culture
Conservatives now claim the Constitution as their own -- yet couldn't bring themselves to read it in its entirety on the House floor. Jon...
December 9, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
President Obama may have given up the store on tax cuts this week, but at least he coined a useful metaphor in the process. Still, is it...
October 1, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Katy Perry's aborted Sesame Street appearance launched a short-lived kerfuffle, but offers a neat allegory for explaining the idiocy...
August 5, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar...
March 25, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
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...
March 18, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
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...
February 18, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
The most thrilling, and also the most ridiculous, presidential speech of modern times came not from an actual president, but from a fake...
February 11, 2010• Current Events, Political Culture
Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had...
January 29, 2010• Bootleg City, Music
The mayor of Bootleg City is back! And in case you have no idea who that is, the mayor is me! Thank you, thank you, you’re too kind....
January 18, 2010• Current Events, Sugar Water, Television
On the morning of January 11, numerous media outlets reported that former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich had proclaimed to Esquire...
December 29, 2009• Current Events, Sugar Water
Now that I’ve got your attention, I’d like to remind you that in late September— Wow. You’re already not paying...
December 17, 2009• Books, Current Events, Political Culture
Here’s the thing about reading Ayn Rand: She forces you to think the way she does. Once you’ve immersed yourself in her black-and-white...
November 19, 2009• Current Events, Political Culture
It was such a simpler time, that summer of 2001. Remember it? That last season of America’s (cyclical) innocence shimmers in the memory,...
November 13, 2009• Current Events, Sugar Water
A nation mourned Wednesday night, as CNN’s Lou Dobbs, an outspoken critic of illegal immigration, announced his retirement from the...
November 5, 2009• Current Events, Political Culture
We may not have John Edwards to kick around anymore – though that hasn’t stopped us from putting the occasional boot into his backside,...
September 11, 2009• Current Events, Sugar Water
Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina became a household name on Wednesday when he “heckled” President Obama during the...
September 10, 2009• Current Events, Political Culture
The words were spoken in London, casually, almost flippantly, and were directed at an audience that was sure to treat them in the spirit...
June 4, 2009• Current Events, Political Culture
I must admit, I had thought the days were over when Republicans could scare the bejeezus out of the citizenry (and force acquiescence from...
May 14, 2009• Current Events, DVD Reviews, Political Culture
When the long-awaited, religiously incendiary sequel to The Da Vinci Code arrives in theaters and the anticipated uproar is reduced to a...
May 7, 2009• Current Events, Political Culture
Any time now – maybe even during the too-few moments between my pressing “submit†and this column going live –...
March 26, 2009• Current Events, Political Culture
The original, furiously populist theme of this column, as I envisioned it last weekend, was “Nationalize the Banks, Now!†Well,...
