Tumblr sent convention correspondents to cover the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Here’s Tumblr correspondent Meg Lanker-Simons on attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Monday: Arriving in Wonderland After cramming every passenger possible on board United Flight 741, departing Denver International Airport, the bored-looking flight crew began playing the instructional safety video. ...

The Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz wrote of action in war that it must “be planned in a mere twilight, which - like the effect of a fog or moonlight - gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.” As I attempted to research and write an article that ...

I'm declaring a pox on porn for the good of sex. Sound oxymoronic? Hear me out. I'm not anti-porn in the general sense. I mean, who doesn't like to watch fucking? We're all voyeurs. But porn in its current incarnation is ruining sex. Ruining. Sex. Did you know there is an actual ...

"In New York City, the fundamentalist half-governor whose church believes that Jews will never get to heaven unless they are baptized as Christians, wore a Star of David."

by Walter Brasch Unless you were in a coma the past few years, you probably know who Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton are.  You heard about them on radio, saw them on television.  You read about them in newspapers and magazines, on Facebook, Twitter, and every social medium known to humanity. Because ...

Ol' Tim Pawlenty may be in a bit of a soup. ADaily Kos blogger passed along the news that ...then-Gov. Pawlenty granted to a sex offender in October 2008, a pardon that is certain to haunt Pawlenty throughout his campaign. Turns out the man Pawlenty pardoned was later arrested again for ...

The morning after. A Harper majority. The Canadians who possess the ability and embrace the right to critically analyze the information pumped out by corporate media and corrupt politicians are reeling. It’s like a horrific kick - straight into one’s gut. A Harper majority begs the question - do Canadians ...

by Walter Brasch Take a pigeon. Now put that pigeon, along with thousands of others, into small coops that don't give the bird much freedom to move. Don't worry about food or water. It won't matter. Take some of the pigeons—who are already disoriented from hours, maybe days, of confinement—and place a couple of ...

  All environmental groups are not created equal. Some of them are created, sustained, and shaped in corporate boardrooms, and we shouldn't be surprised at the consequences.   World’s Greatest Magic Trick   “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - ...

What the GOP is doing to prevent voting across the country is awful. But while the Democrats are right to condemn it, the party of the donkey doesn't have a clean record on the matter, even lately. Democrats need to swear off disenfranchising third parties if they want the moral ...