REAL ART (and politics and culture)

FRIDAY CAT BLOGGING Sammy Be sure to check out Modulator's Friday Ark for more cat blogging pics! $$$$$$$$$...

If Government Doesn’t Create Jobs, How is Romney Going to Create 12 Million of Them?   From the Intersection, courtesy of a facebook frie...

IS THIS THE OCTOBER SURPRISE? From the Washington Post: Storm provides Obama with a commander-in-chief moment For a day at least, Hurr...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Here, watch Young Frankenstein , in full.  If you can't click away the sexy ad, just take it to full screen, which ma...

FACEBOOK DEBATES ON OUR FRACTURED CIVIC DISCOURSE, PART 2 That's the thing about facebook; the conversation, in theory, is never rea...

FACEBOOK DEBATES ON OUR FRACTURED CIVIC DISCOURSE I recycled yesterday's Real Art post on facebook, and, strangely, it ended up with...

The progressive case against Obama   From Salon.com, bigtime liberal blogger, Democratic activist, and former N...

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DON'T REPUBLICANS THINK PERJURY IS A "HIGH CRIME"? From AlterNet : Court Unseals Potentially Devastating Testimony by Mitt...

FROM THE REAL ART SPORTS DESK IS THIS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE LONGHORNS? From the AP via the Houston Chronicle: Brown: 'I didn...

PREPPING FOR AN AUDITION TONIGHT... ...so no real post.  But it's all weird.  Suddenly I've got a new agent in the morning, and th...

CONFRONTING THE GOP'S LEGACY OF RACISM So I reposted yeststerday's Real Art entry, an obituary for George McGovern , on facebook l...

FAREWELL GEORGE MCGOVERN From Daily Kos : He is best remembered for his disastrous 1972 presidential campaign against incumbent Richard ...

Snow Job on Jobs New Krugman: But back to the Romney jobs plan. As many people have noted, the plan has five points but contains no spec...

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LATEST RIGHT-WING FACEBOOK MEME: CRAP ECONOMICS Saw this earlier tonight in my fb news feed: This is pretty easy to...

Crowley Refuses to Backtrack as Romney Surrogate Says Fact Check 'Not Your Place' From Crooks and Liars : CNN host Candy Crowley...

HOW TO SHUT DOWN SOMEONE WHO'S TRYING  TO SHUT DOWN SERIOUS TALK ABOUT SEX ED As you might have noticed, I've tentatively taken R...

  Cy-Fair ISD revises sex-education program after parent concerns  From the Houston Chronicle: Some parents objected to seventh-graders ...

Death By Ideology New Krugman: The overwhelming evidence, however, is that insurance is indeed a lifesaver, and lack of insurance a kil...