Today I received a false quote supposedly from Jay Leno. It is making the rounds enough to appear on Snopes, which identifies it as a lie. Leno never said it. But its content typifies the attitude of all too many self-described ‘conservatives,’ self-righteous, condescending, self-pitying, holier-than-thou. and deeply, proudly ignorant. And so I am sharing…

Salmon are one of the wonders of life on earth. The plight of wild salmon due to corporate salmon farms and the parasites and poisons for which they are responsible is appalling to those of us who have followed the issue. Wild runs are being exterminated by seas lice infestations produced and sustained by so-callled…

The following was on Atrios today. A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing. Full story here. Atrios as usual makes good points. I want to make another.…

The Bush years have increasingly worried me that our political system has entered into terminal old age, where members of a self-perpetuating ruling elite become fixated on their perks and privileges while utterly losing touch with the rest of the country. There is plenty of evidence this is the case, and historically when this happens…

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