Zombie Politics

All this discussion of best interest decisions has left me pondering this question.... If someone's best interest is "that which th...

An interesting exchange came up in the comments of my "Cult" post and I thought I would bring it out front to illustrate a very ke...

I'm going to start "quick hit news" type postings under this heading. I've always enjoyed those old news reels from the 19...

One of my favorite programs of all time was M*A*S*H. In fact, I patterned much of my view of the world after Hawkeye Pierce although I do ad...

Just saw this come across the wire... Daughter says pilot in Texas IRS crash was a hero The daughter of a man who crashed his small plane in...

Yesterday, I updated the CenterPoint Energy meter inspection story in Minnesota. As I expected, questions regarding my sanity cropped up in ...

Last November, I wrote a piece entitled Corporate Abuse that caused quite a stir . For those of you new to NFTF, I'm sure you have wonde...

"We're planting the flag on constitutional ground, and if you try to take our freedoms, we will fight back." - ---Minnesota Go...

Yesterday, A. Joseph Stack III got into a small plane, took off, and crashed into a building housing the IRS in Austin, TX. The software eng...

From the Times article I talked about yesterday: But their vision of the federal government is frequently at odds with the one that both par...

For quite awhile on this blog, I have been talking about how the conservative base of this country has essentially gone off the deep end. Th...

As I enjoyed one of my very simple pleasures in life last Sunday morning (cracking open the Sunday edition of the Times), I was surprised to...

"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man w...

I'm usually hot or cold with Steve Chapman, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, but he really hit the nail on the head with his latest co...

Many of you who have been reading this blog for years probably think that I am a cranky, cynical fuck a lot of the time. If you know me in p...

As is usually the case, the reason why the Democrats have failed to pass health care reform is staring at them right in the mirror. No, I...

Being bipartisan cannot mean that Democrats give up everything they believe in, find the handful of things that Republicans have been advoca...

I get a lot of grief on here whenever I put up a post that illustrates the complete insanity of the right. The responses I get are usually o...

As I watched Sarah Palin's address to the Tea party convention last Saturday, I was reminded of a concert. "The Frightening Weaknes...

President Obama unveiled his budget last week and, predictably, the right went ape shit. The Times has a very detailed analysis of how the m...