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Finally CFLF is back!

Finally CFLF is back!
Posted by on Jun 17, 2012
We have taken this site over and will be happy to continue the fantastic job Michael and Co was doing over nine years. We hope to continue to collect plenty of posting material as a monumental document of the “Zeitgeist” of...

Comments from Left Field is Fo...

Comments from Left Field is For Sale
Posted by on Apr 21, 2012
On August 12, 2003, nearly nine years ago, I started this site with this post. I never could have imagined how much it would have changed and enriched my life. Over the years I have met some incredible people, had inspiring (and sometimes not so much) conversations,...

What If They Threw A War On Re...

Posted by on Feb 23, 2012
Sorry, Santorum-lovers — Religion Dispatch‘s Sarah Posner is right: when it comes to the so-called ‘war on religion’ there’s no ‘there’...

Could it be…?

Posted by on Feb 22, 2012
This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country – the United States...

Morning Maddow: “This Is...

Posted by on Feb 21, 2012
A sincere mea culpa for the lack of content over the last several days. Was a holiday weekend in my neck of the tubes, so yrs truly decided to go all-in with some R&R time. Anyway, we are back and, baby, the Republicans are still fucking bat-shit. With the...

Morning Maddow: Aspirin ain...

Posted by on Feb 17, 2012
Yep — a picture indeed says a thousand words.  With GOP culture-warriors going all-in against contraception (apart from Bayer Aspirin — am I right, ‘gals’?) one is again struck by just how far beyond the contemporary 21st century mainstream...

Morning Maddow: “Constru...

Posted by on Feb 16, 2012
Oh, look — yet another statement regarding Planned Parenthood services that apparently was not intended to be factual. This time it was purportedly Serious GOP Senate vet Orrin Hatch of Utah who decided to give facts the finger and proudly let his bull-feces flag...
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