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Joseph Burgess, The Green-Dog Democrat 

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Media compilations edited by Joseph Burgess

This is a modified-format posting of Joseph Burgess's op-ed e-letter, each issue of which usually focuses on a single topic or has some unifying theme among its articles. To receive it by e-mail, send a message -- Subject: GDD -- including only first and last name and e-mail address to green-dog@mytown.ca. It's best to right click any hyperlink urls below to open in "new window"

  • Labor Day then and now (6 Seeptember 2010)
  • The Ignorami (30 August 2010)
  • The Washington Post march over Gingrich and other ignorami (21 August 2010)
  • Bush redux (14 August 2010)
  • A strange lack of grandchildren among Republican senators (5 August 2010)
  • The so-called "deficit" crisis (29 July 2010)
  • The Social Insecurity fringe is baaaack... (21 July 2010)
  • Jacobins and zombies (14 July 2010)
  • The Vietistan War (8 July 2010)
  • BP's big buddies in the GOP (24 June 2010)
  • Stunted growth by coffee and the Internet? (18 June 2010)
  • Real-World Philosophy 101 (11 June 2010)
  • Mother Nature's anguish (4 June 2010)
  • Drill, BP, drill (26 May 2010)
  • Psychoanalyzing the tea party movement (20 May 2010)
  • Malicious lies and hate speech and vice versa (14 May 2010)
  • A buncha good reasons for hard-headed finance reform (5 May 2010)
  • Neo-secessionists and –nullifiers (29 April 2010)
  • Third of a series of three Poly Sci 101 lessons (17 April 2010)
  • Second of a series of three Poly Sci 101 lessons (14 April 2010)
  • First of a series of three Poly Sci 101 lessons (11 April 2010)
  • April . . . Fools (3 April 2010)
  • That Was the Week That Was (27 March 2010)
  • Strange kind of religious outlook (21 March 2010)
  • A nut that fell right under the tree (15 March 2010)
  • The Star that falls on northeast Alabama (10 March 2010)
  • The party of Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, and Eisenhower? (5 March 2010)
  • Snow Job (1 March 2010)
  • Mad Hatters, March Hares, and Jabberwocks (20 February 2010)
  • Defining Obama (14 February 2010)
  • The Right's new political hero (8 February 2010)
  • State of what's buggin' us or ought to (31 January 2010)
  • "The Life and Times of Five Judge Roy Beans" (25 January 2010)
  • 1994 cum 2010? (19 January 2010)
  • "What hath Gop wrought?" (8 January 2010)
  • Northern and southern cookin' (1 January 2010)
  • The dysfunction-junction U.S. Senate (26 December 2009)
  • Pragmatism for Christmas (20 December 2009)
  • Linus, Steven Anderson, and imprecatory prayers (13 December 2009)
  • Chicken littles? (4 December 2009)
  • No help wanted (29 November 2009)
  • Best-selling fiction (22 November 2009)
  • Radio (and TV) daze (15 November 2009)
  • Paranoia and politics (7 November 2009)
  • Healthcare horror stories and hypocrites (31 October 2009)
  • The banksters (24 October 2009)
  • Self-serving religious (or political) notions (16 October 2009)
  • One nation divided (9 October 2009)
  • Graveyard of invading or occupying armies (3 October 2009)
  • The United States of Corporations (25 September 2009)
  • Craziness, a pre-existing condition(18 September 2009)
  • Give 'em hell, Harr- er, Barry (10 September 2009)
  • Sara Robinson and the F-word (4 September 2009)
  • BANG! Bang-bang... (27 August 2009)
  • Them danged furriners' commie healthcare systems (20 August 2009)
  • The anti-eighth or -ninth commandment crowd (13 August 2009)
  • Anti-healthcare reform filberts (6 August 2009)
  • Courthouse liars and dissemblers (17 July 2009)
  • Nine women on Sister Sarah (11 July 2009)
  • A Paine-full Independence Day (7 July 2009)
  • The morally challenged minority (30 June 2009)
  • Care and feeding of fear, hatred, extremism, paranoia (24 June 2009)
  • Heah come de judge (18 June 2009)
  • Something bigger than a breadbox (5 June 2009)
  • The Dark Lord Chronicles: Darth Vader Emerges (28 May 2009)
  • The dead's due (24 May 2009)
  • Mooseburgers with ketchup (not mustard) (21 May 2009)
  • Healthy or healthful cynicism and skepticism? (14 May 2009)
  • Noo Yawk analysts put Republicans on the couch (11 May 2009)
  • Insured shots to prevent health care reform (7 May 2009)
  • Why Specter left Gingrich, Hannity, Cheney, and Limbaugh's GOP (29 April 2009)
  • The reactionary Right's new bogeyman (24 April 2009)
  • Masters of the universe (17 April 2009)
  • Lessons learned from Adolf (28 March 2009)
  • Threat to the nation's future (18 March 2009)
  • De facto Republican mouthpiece (13 March 2009)
  • Truth and consequences (9 March 2009)
  • The Fourth Estate's crisis and the consequences: Part 2 (27 February 2009)
  • The Fourth Estate's crisis and the consequences: Part 1 (24 February 2009)
  • F.D.R., Obama, and the Republicans (18 February 2009)
  • Wretched indulgences at the top (13 February 2009)
  • Big fat idiot (9 February 2009)
  • Quotations from among 599 Green Dogs (1 February 2009)
  • The third deadly sin (28 January 2009)
  • Nixon cum Bush (21 January 2009)
  • Good riddance (17 January 2009)
  • Real suckers? (14 January 2009)
  • Considering Gaza (11 January 2009)
  • Free-market follies (6 January 2009)
  • Darth Cheney and the force (1 January 2009)
  • Famous factious flinging of footwear (29 December 2008)
  • Christmas and stuff -- and more stuff (24 December 2008)
  • Graduate-level economics with Joe Stiglitz (20 December 2008)
  • Bush's duplicitous exiting (15 December 2008)
  • Signs of the season past, present, and future (8 December 2008)
  • See the USA in your... (5 December 2008) Part Two
  • See the USA in your... (3 December 2008) Part One
  • The prophet of America (28 November 2008)
  • Republicans in the 21st century (23 November 2008)
  • Corporate and political Willie Suttons (19 November 2008)
  • The dugout fight in Mudville (12 November 2008)
  • The Magnificent Seven Optimists (and a pragmatist) (9 November 2008)
  • Cullings from early election-day cogitations (5 November 2008)
  • Sensible conservative commentary on McCain and Obama (2 November 2008)
  • Alaskan bear pucky (26 October 2008)
  • Voting early and often (21 October 2008)
  • Thoughtful voices from The Right (16 October 2008)
  • Deregulation, McCain, Keating, and greed, et al (10 October 2008)
  • The debate that wasn't much of one (6 October 2008)
  • A post turtle and bull pies (2 October 2008)
  • Cogent (pungent, perhaps?) thoughts on the Meltdown of 2008 (28 September 2008)
  • Epilogue to adding up John S. McHoover (24 September 2008)
  • More of Adding up John S. McHoover (23 September 2008)
  • Adding up John S. McHoover (22 September 2008)
  • Women's words about the hockey-mom veep candidate (7 September 2008)
  • Lying liars and the lies they tell (1 September 2008)
  • Frank's The Wrecking Crew: Second & third excerpt/adaptations of three (22 August 2008)
  • Frank's The Wrecking Crew: First excerpt/adaptation of three (21 August 2008)
  • McCain & Assoc. Snake Oil Sales, LLC (17 August 2008)
  • Real journalism: R.I.P.? (10 August 2008)
  • What's the matter with America (6 August 2008)
  • A Marxist-Muslim jhadist candidate for president? (31 July 2008)
  • Cogitations from Uncle Don, Uncle Charley, and Uncle Rog (27 July 2008)
  • The money-changers in the temple (19 July 2008)
  • The blasted economic mess (15 July 2008)
  • Prescience that was ignored during the 2004 presidential election (9 July 2008)
  • Printer's ink and independence (4 July 2008)
  • Ike's bane (1 July 2008)
  • "Meet the (late) Russert" (24 June 2008)
  • A crazed daisy chain (15 June 2008)
  • The McClellan kafuffle (7 June 2008)
  • Changin' times? (31 May 2008)
  • How we can best honor those who have died (26 May 2008)
  • Despicable behavior (22 May 2008)
  • Wright or wrong? (15 May 2008)
  • School daze (9 May 2008)
  • Journalism 101 (4 May 2008)
  • April foolishness (30 April 2008)
  • Part Two: It's still the econ-er, Busheney's folly, stupid (22 April 2008)
  • Part One: It's still the econ-er, Busheney's folly, stupid (21 April 2008)
  • Wising Up to McCain, Epilogue (11 April 2008)
  • Wising Up to McCain, Vol. 2 (10 April 2008)
  • Wising Up to McCain, Vol. 1 (9 April 2008)
  • So? Who's counting? (4 April 2008)
  • A heckuva speech (1 April 2008)
  • Nouveau welfare queens (23 March 2008)
  • Unhappy anniversary (19 March 2008)
  • George W. Hoover (17 March 2008)
  • Harold Stassen, Jr. (13 March 2008)
  • Good for bidness, my Aunt Millie's cow (7 March 2008)
  • Hillary and Obama and Obama and Hillary (3 March 2008)
  • Big commentaries from small newspapers (29 February 2008)
  • Dumb and dumber (20 February 2008)
  • Howard Bealeism (14 February 2008)
  • REDUX: Straight Talk Express or Right Wing Local? (9 February 2008)
  • Thin Tuesday (3 February 2008)
  • State of the lame duck (31 January 2008)
  • Things that go bump in the day and night (26 January 2008)
  • Two Dreamers (21 January 2008)
  • Second look at another media-knifed candidate (18 January 2008)
  • First look at another media-knifed candidate (17 January 2008)
  • Greed (13 January 2008)
  • A year of McGoverning (8 January 2008)
  • New Year's conundrum (2 January 2008)
  • Assassination of freedom of the press, 2007 (29 December 2007)
  • Good cogitations on the season to be jolly (24 December 2007)
  • Nobel and ignoble speeches, Part 2 (20 December 2007)
  • Nobel and ignoble speeches, Part 1 (19 December 2007)
  • Straight talk about Persian fables (14 December 2007)
  • The long, hard economic winters ahead (9 December 2007)
  • The United States of Corporations (5 December 2007)
  • What did Bush know and when did he know it? (29 November 2007)
  • George Bush with brains (26 November 2007)
  • Talking turkey about Iraq (21 November 2007)
  • Crimes in the name of security (17 November 2007)
  • Supporting the troops and vets -- not (12 November 2007)
  • Thomas Jefferson's ideal's bane (8 November 2007)
  • World War III (31 October 2007)
  • Attack on the U.S. Constitution (26 October 2007)
  • The word on Iraq from the troops (18 October 2007)
  • How the Grinch is trying to steal some kids' health insurance (14 October 2007)
  • Conservatives Without Conscience (8 October 2007)
  • War for fun and profit (3 October 2007)
  • Bill on Bill (25 September 2007)
  • In the wake of Petraeus (21 September 2007)
  • The Republican economy (16 September 2007)
  • Patriotism on "Patriot Day" (11 September 2007)
  • Satirical looks at what's buggin' us, Bunkie (8 September 2007)
  • Working man (and woman) blues (3 September 2007)
  • Cough syrup for what (hack, hack) ails America (30 August 2007)
  • Right-wing crazies and principled conservatives (24 August 2007)
  • A dozen yellow turd blossoms (19 August 2007)
  • Plenty of paranoia to go around (14 August 2007)
  • Wonkish views of a "political metamorphosis" (9 August 2007)
  • Protestant church service -- kinda, sorta (5 August 2007)
  • The "I" word redux (2 August 2007)
  • Fat lady warming up? (28 July 2007)
  • The docs' Rx's for a "SiCKO" healthcare system (24 July 2007)
  • Republicans, candidly speaking (21 July 2007)
  • The Age of Chicken Little (18 July 2007)
  • Folks livid over Libby (12 July 2007)
  • History lesions, er, lessons (8 July 2007)
  • Cogitations on independence, justice, and liberty (4 July 2007)
  • Froomkin on der "deputy" fuehrer (28 June 2007)
  • Michael Moore's documentary, "SiCKO" (24 June 2007)
  • Hairy Joe, the fightin' fool (20 June 2007)
  • Economic Ebb-tide (16 June 2007)
  • Al Gore and Reason (11 June 2007)
  • The $#%?&#! GOP (gasoline & oil prices) (5 June 2007)
  • Thursday night out for Chinese (31 May 2007)
  • Wednesday night out for Chinese (30 May 2007)
  • The proper celebration of Memorial Day (25 May 2007)
  • A "decalogue" for Jerry (21 May 2007)
  • The Murdoch Street Journal (16 May 2007)
  • Epilogue: Cogitations about the Right (12 May 2007)
  • Fourth of four: Cogitations about the Right (8 May 2007)
  • Third of four: Cogitations about the Right (3 May 2007)
  • Second of four: Cogitations about the Right (26 April 2007)
  • First of four: Cogitations about the Right (25 April 2007)
  • Running on the rims (18 April 2007)


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