Listen to your own inner citizen First Amendment voice. This is America. Just like every other citizen, you have a right to run. Whenever you like. For as long as you like. Sayeth Ralph Nader. ADDED: He's talking to Hillary C…
Madison.com reports: A Dane County judge Tuesday kicked Ralph Nader off the Wisconsin ballot, prompting an immediate appeal by the independent presidential candidate with the state Supreme Court. While Judge Michael Nowakowski r…
I just got a computerized telephone call asking me to hit phone buttons in answer to a series of questions: would I vote in the coming election, who did I think I'd vote for, and what chance was there that I'd vote for Na…
I emailed the link to the Time poll to my son, John Cohen, and he wrote back what seemed to me to be a fine effort at putting the best face on it. So, with his permission, here it is: Clearly Bush has a really good trajectory. R…
Proof that I read Jeremy's theories seriously: I paused to think about the meaning of the word "plausiblethan." A portmanteau word combining plausible and Elizabethan, suggesting the sort of assessment of plausibil…
It's another damp, cool summer day here in Madison. My lewd front-yard mushrooms have re-sprouted. My overgrown hedge is now clipped, but swarming with mosquitoes. It's a good day to hole up inside and make the big push …
The Washington Post interviewed John Kerry: During the interview, he eschewed the soaring rhetoric on freedom and democracy that are commonplace in Bush's speeches and news conferences. At one point, he stumbled over the wor…
Adam Nagourney, in today's NYT, examines the mystery of "Why the Democrats' Left Wing Is Muted" about Kerry, given the positions he's been taking lately about the war. Hmm ... I see I just wrote "posi…
Relax, Rejoice. Inspired by Nina's meditations on Ralph Nader's "Relax, rejoice" advice-- "I urge the liberal establishment to relax and rejoice" --I Googled "relax rejoice" just to see how…
"Don't burlesque me." That's a quote from Ralph Nader, speaking to Chris Matthews on Hardball Monday night. When is the last time anyone used that word as a verb in normal speech (as opposed to an English liter…
Very creative, Ralph. I'm at home this afternoon, nursing my cold, trying to stave off laryngitis, and I'm reading things on the internet, thinking I should add a little something to the blog today, and as I wait for my …