Not My Mother’s Blog

Just posting a quick, pre-emptive note on the playing of the national anthems at this morning’s reception for Chinese President Hu — yes, yes, the band did, indeed, play the Chinese national anthem before the U.S. national anthem. No, this is not further proof that the U.S. is bowing down to the Chinese, nor that [...]

@wegoted Would you pls push back on that bs about Pelosi calling the TPers nazis — it's not what she said nor what she meant. # Guest post by @clbergpowers about the importance of rerouting the media http://bit.ly/h1r0Dv # RT: @clbergpowers: Gah! "grassroots organizing" is not top-down http://bit.ly/ikhhj6 You mean Koch bros are doing it [...]

Last night, in his speech at the Tucson memorial, President Obama called on us to live up to the image of democracy held by 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green.  This morning, Sam Stein had this to say at Huffpo: Challenging an audience to live up to a child’s expectation would seem noteworthy only for the low [...]