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Bringing The Youth To Power
Drinking Liberally Shot of Truth In the below post, we briefly discuss Michael Connery's excellent new book on progressive youth politics, Youth To Power: How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority. For those Open Left readers in...
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New Words For New Lows
Eating Liberally Food For Thought by Kerry Trueman Our ever-evolving culture gave me a new verb, a new phrase, and a new acronym last week. The verb is "googlemire," and if you've ever been sucked into the Internet's virtual...
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Giving Fox News A Piece Of Your Mind - On The Air
Earlier in the week, we posted the following video of one of our favorite liberal comics (and Laughing Liberally regular) Lee Camp telling us what he thinks of Fox News - while on Fox News. Now, in an essay on...
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A Conversation with Chris Metzler, Director of "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea"
Screening Liberally Big Picture By Josh Bolotsky We recently had the opportunity to have a conversation with Chris Metzler, director of Screening Liberally NYC's February selection, the critically acclaimed Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea. We talked about Sonny...
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Academy Awards: Top 10 Black Best Actor/Actress Winners
Screening Liberally Big Picture by Katie Halper If for nothing else, last night's Academy Awards was a good night for progressive on the strength of wins for progressive documentaries like Taxi To The Dark Side and Freeheld. However, it didn't...
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No Cow Left Behind
Eating Liberally Food for Thought by Kerry Trueman I'm confused. Is today Presidents' Day, or Groundhog Day? The news cycle's stuck in a wretched rut: the aftermath of yet another school shooting; another suicide bombing in Afghanistan; another story about...
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Cinema and Pop Music Therapy for a Valentine's Day Spent Alone
Films For Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance, Plus a Few B-Sides: Screening Liberally Big Picture by Josh Bolotsky Are you holding the razor at your throat this very instant? Take heart, comfort is at hand. This is the hour that...
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No Country For Old Liberals - A Reagan-Era Parable
Screening Liberally Big Picture by Ben Weyl A sheer callousness toward human life pervades No Country for Old Men, an Academy Award nominee for Best Picture. That the film takes place in 1980 is perhaps no coincidence; the moral...
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Building a Deep Economy
Reading Liberally Page Turner by Dan Chibnall, Drinking Liberally Des Moines Yesterday, I ate a tomato and I loved it. Tomatoes are one of the finest foods on the Earth, but they don't grow year-round. The problem is that it's...
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Super Fat Tuesday
(Cross-posted from Living Liberally) Election Day should be a holiday. It would make it easier for people to vote without taking time off from work. It would give everyone the chance to campaign for their candidates. And it would allow...
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Recipe For Super Fat Tuesday: Kingmaker Cupcakes
Eating Liberally Food For Thought by Kerry Trueman Who died and made corn King? Democracy, that's who. Amber waves of grain, my ass. We live in a cornarchy; our elected leaders elect to follow the lead of high fructose corn...
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FISA Response During SOTU
Last night I watched the State of the Union at a Living Liberally event in NYC. There were probably between 150-200 people there, including about a dozen Young Republicans. It was a very vocal crowd, with a lot of hoots,...
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Bush's Last Dance
(cross-posted from Drinking Liberally) The State of the Union is that peculiar time of year when President Bush's advisors get "creative": Mars! Human-animal hybrids! Hydrogen-powered cars! And could forget the classic uranium-from-Niger? What will Bush's contribution be this year? A...
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Family man, Oilman. There Will Be Blood.
Screening Liberally Big Picture By Jay Hazen Over the five Fridays left until the Academy Awards, we'll be taking the opportunity each week to look at the five Best Picture nominees from the perspective of a progressive activist or...
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What The Candidate Got Right - And What It Got Wrong
Screening Liberally Big Picture by Josh Bolotsky After this Saturday's primary in South Carolina, there will be a full week (!) without few primaries or caucuses to look forward to. Given this relative famine for progressive political junkies, we'd...
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Beverage & Dairy Industry Shills: Must We Swallow Their Swill?
Eating Liberally Food For Thought by Kerry Trueman Now that the majority of Americans are overweight if not downright obese, there's a whole lotta hand wringin' and head scratchin' goin' on. Who's to blame? What can we do about it?...
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Drinking Liberally Shot of Truth: New Year's Resolutions For Progressives
It's January 2nd - do you know where your new year's resolutions are? It's not all that uncommon to be without a new year's resolution - or, heaven help us, having already violated one's resolutions - by a few days...
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A Moo-dest Proposal for 2008
Eating Liberally Food For Thought by Kerry Trueman Here it comes, another new year, another chance to make a fresh start. Every year, I tell myself that I should resolve to stop procrastinating, but I can never bring myself...
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The Must-Read / Must-Watch '07 Round-Up
Reading Liberally Page Turner and Screening Liberally Big Picture With all the other '07 summing of going on -- from Think Progress's entertaining list of most linked articles to the Drum Major Institutes top 10 best and worst public policies...
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The Least Likely News Stories of 2008
Laughing Liberally to Keep From Crying As we wrap up 2007, Laughing Liberally doesn't like to focus on the past -- so we asked one of our favorite comedians, Lee Camp, to make some predictions for the future. What are...
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A 'Nog For Our Vegan Friends
Eating Liberally Food For Thought by Kerry Trueman Advocates for healthy, ethical eating have a pretty tough row to hoe this time of year. It starts at Thanksgiving, with a flurry of Butterballs, and builds up to a Christmas crescendo...
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Screening Liberally Big Picture: Charlie Wilson's Bore
by Aaron Friedman (cross-posted from Living Liberally) One of the most fascinating political stories of the past twenty years - the saga of Democratic congressman "Charlie Wilson's War" against the Soviets in 1980s Afghanistan, based on George Crile's bestseller -...
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The American Way, Gone Astray?
by Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally Dennis Kucinich and Alan Greenspan haven't got a lot in common, but they agree that when it comes to the war in Iraq, "It's the oil, stupid," as Beltway bellower John McLaughlin put it on...
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Reading Liberally Page Turner: Armistice, Veterans Day & Vonnegut
by Justin Krebs Sunday will be Veterans Day, it once would have been known as Armistice Day and, had he not passed away this year, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. would have been celebrating his 85th birthday. You don't need to...
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Drinking Liberally Shot of Truth: Trick-Or-Vote
(cross-posted at Living Liberally) People dress in all sorts of outlandish outfits and play make-believe, some to frighten you and some to amuse, as they come to your homes and demand that you give to them. Yes, it's the...
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Eating Liberally Food For Thought: American Excess-Tionalism
By Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally (cross-posted from Living Liberally) The United States remains the world's heavyweight champion when it comes to obesity, but the British are closing in on us, and they're not happy about it. Two just-released reports...
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Screening Liberally Big Picture: Rendition and the Modern Issue Film in an Era of High Broderism
By Josh Bolotsky, Living Liberally There are several things you might expect a review of Gavin Hood's new film Rendition, out today, to begin with. Perhaps a discussion of Reese Witherspoon's first role since 2005's Walk The Line; maybe a...
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Eating Liberally Food For Thought
ALL HANDS ON DECK! ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD--OH, WAIT, IT'S MELTING… By Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally (cross-posted on Living Liberally) Yes, the glaciers in Greenland are melting at a not-so-glacial pace, but they're not the only formerly frosty icons fighting...
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Eating Liberally Food For Thought: The World's Oldest Grains
It's a quiet, quasi-holiday on the blogs...but our friends at Eating Liberally haven't stopped feeding us their insights into our innards...we thought we'd take the slower news day to take a moment to look to our plates. WHY THE WORLD'S...
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Screening Liberally Big Picture: What to Rent This Weekend, According to Rachel Maddow
By Rachel Maddow cross-posted at OpenLeft This marks the first edition of a new semi-regular feature on the Screening Liberally Big Picture - What to Rent This weekend, according to various members of our movement. Our inaugural guest is Air...
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Reading Liberally Page Turner: Getting an A the Progressive Way
Our high-school-aged readers (or the high-school-aged children of our middle-aged readers) are probably just now getting settled into their fall classes, and being given the tasks of figuring out which teachers are the easiest, filling out applications, getting used...
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Eating Liberally Food For Thought: Commuting vs. Communing
By Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally The average American commute is growing ever longer, according to a study released last week: Despite high gas prices - $2.66 in Atlanta on Tuesday - 9 of 10 Americans still drive to work each...
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Eating Liberally Food for Thought: USDA Does Big Ag's Bidding by Pooh-Poohing Organics
by Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally, cross-posted at OpenLeft The USDA's "certified organic" label is taking hits from every quarter these days, from purists who say it's too watered down to corporations who'd love to dilute it further to farmers who...
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Eating Liberally Food For Thought: Better Know a Butcher
by Kerry Trueman, Eating Liberally, posted on OpenLeft. Otto Von Bismark, Germany's "Iron Chancellor," famously said "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." Better for whom? The legislators and butchers who have something to...
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Reading Liberally Page Turner: Harry Potter
...cross-posted at Open Left "While literature can be a beautiful solitary experience, it can also bring people together in a community." This sentiment is at the heart of the growing Reading Liberally network of book clubs and tours, but the...
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Eating Liberally Food For Thought
by Kerry Trueman (cross-posted at Living Liberally and Open Left) Eating Liberally's unearthed a vintage gem of dietary wisdom from Thomas Jefferson that's timelier than ever. Jefferson was passionate about produce and considered meat more of an afterthought, calling it...
