The Chris Moeller Archives

Part of Boddicker's testimony was Perry Mason-like in its theatrics. During cross-examination by the government attorney, Boddicker was asked if there were secrets in the clubhouse. The defense followed by asking if Clemens ever did anything that was kept from the public. Yes, said Boddicker, Clemens would often leave the ballpark in uniform to see kids in the hospital. Oh no he di'nt!

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Obama did nothing this year to help the unions and the campaign of working people in Wisconsin because he was afraid their defeat would weaken him politically. Scott Walker had eight times the money, the unions had... no representation whatsoever from anybody inside the American political power structure.

Republicans win in election after election because the "working people's party," the Democrats, gave its soul away to corporate interests, and that action left neither party with one. Republicans know that the Democrats cannot plausibly make the case that they're a cogent alternative to the corporate strangulation that 99% of America despises. Corporate candidates run unopposed. Beginning with Wisconsin, Republicans have succeeded in turning our teachers, librarians, laborers, and public employees effectively into the new domestic terrorists. The Democrats' tack is to just shadow behind in an effort to capture the "political middle" of that idea.

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In the latest Vanity Fair, Kristen Stewart, star of the critically-unpopular "Snow White & the Huntsman" and the "Twilight" films, called critics of her recent work "voracious... shit eaters." I like Stewart just fine. She was tremendous, in fact, in "The Runaways" and "Welcome to the Rileys." Did you see those? But she shouldn't set up her critics so easily. If I was a film critic, I would reply like this: "Yes, and your movies are the shit I'm forced to eat."