Will America be left behind by the likes of countless other Democracies?
Your mileage may vary, but please vote today, and think very carefully about who you are voting for.
Think California is a liberal stronghold? Think again.
Congratulations Joe the Plumber, you’re rich. And you’re doing better than most.
The American people might be gullible at times, but they’re not easily fooled over the long run
Confused about the many alternative fuel options? We break it down for you.
How the party’s pretense of diversity can’t hide its sexist and racist underbelly
Load up on popcorn and cheap beer while we liveblog the debate between Failin’ Sarah Palin and Firin’ Joe Biden
How Historical-Identity Politics is Playing a Role in This Year
Net neutrality is more than confusing tech-speak. It’s a battle for the only vestige of free media.
One year ago, I made my last post on my now-defunct personal blog. The last post was sports-related – I was lamenting my beloved and favorite sports franchise, the Boston Celtics, who had just finished 24-58 and traded for an $18 million 31 year-old shooting guard Ray Allen in a desperate attempt to become relevant in Beantown a.k.a Championship City. I posted this photo of GM Danny Ainge and Head Coach Doc Rivers after they failed to get the first pick in the draft, looking generally befuddled, like a pair of incompetent detectives from The Wire. 
I don’t mind mentioning that the state of the Celtics last year was not unlike the state of my blog – generally ignored and more work than it was worth.
Today, the Celtics are Eastern Conference Champions, a few days away from playing the LA Lakers for all the marbles. There’s a life lesson in this, I believe. As I sit and post to IsGreaterThan for the first time in several weeks in my tiny role as a contributing blogger to this eclectic, cerebral and all-around fabulous journal exploring the intersections of culture, politics and art, I realize that we can all be too hopeless in these times of recessions that no one can confirm but everyone can feel, endless wars, the continuing decline of the American empire, the simultaneous bad karma of a 1 billion people according to karmic Ph.D. Sharon Stone, and the non-existence of global warming (Myanmar, China, Philippines? I see no evidence of global warming either!). Quagmires can turn into paradises in short order. You may not expect it, you’ll never know when, but like the Boston Celtics and LA Lakers, meeting in the NBA Finals for the first time in 22 years, good things can happen. 
There are many things I’m looking forward to in the next few months. Here are a few:
Don’t celebrate the Senate’s repudiation of media consolidation quite yet
For the United States to truly call itself a democracy, all citizens must be able to vote
We have been taught that capitalism is rooted in natural selection, but that’s only one way of reading Darwin’s theories
A closer look at the Afghanistan adventures our President missed out on this past week
As biology comes to dominate the political debate, progressives must reconsider our understanding of natural selection.
A physicist urges for peace-minded political involvement in the sciences.
In this day and age of big-budget punk, Open Source Software offers a lot of object lessons in how to do things right (once again).
A new Frontline documentary examines the Administration’s shocking redefinition of Presidential power through a stunning narrative.
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis is a 1987 documentary by Bill Moyers about the Iran-Contra arms that provides some fascinating context and insight on the current Republican regime and the early days of the neocon agenda. The warnings that Moyers was sounding two decades ago about the Republican party’s systematic disregard and undermining of the constitution are stunningly prescient:
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Download the entire documentary for free at Google Video.
From the description page:
This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer’s 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive … all
Paul M Davis