Every four years we hear about voter intimidation, voter caging, voters being erroneously purged for the voter rolls and misinformation campaigns designed to confuse or frighten voters away from the polls. These schemes are almost always targeted at minority voters, likely to vote Democrat, from the controversy in Jeb Bush’s Florida in 2000 to the shenanigans of the Texas Strike Force in Ohio in 2004. And yet John McCain says that ACORN is threatening the very fabric of our Democracy by c... read more

The Tivoli has Bareback Mountain on all three screens. It's the only movie they're showing this week:

Landmark Tivoli Theatre
6350 Delmar, St. Louis, MO 63130
Brokeback Mountain - 5:00 PM, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00

I live three miles away from South Grand, and yet with the exception of Mokabe’s I really don’t hang out in the neighborhood much. So tonight, I did something I haven’t done in a long time: hung out with a bunch of people with no agenda other than being social.

I’m out of practice on this. The first couple of hours I was really restless and didn’t say much. I kept thinking “I could be cleaning my basement or watching DVDs at my apartment right now.” We met at this overpriced, yuppie, sus... read more