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Histury Lessens

Blog: November 22nd, 2006

Airlines mix up luggage all the time, especially when said luggage is a nondescript black duffle bag. I returned from my Laotian vacation the other day, all rested and tanned. On the long subway ride home from SFO, I got bored, so I opened my duffle bag in search of my i-Pod. I was [...]

Politics is the art of the disgusting

Blog: December 13th, 2006

Democratic Senator Tim Johnson may have suffered a stroke today. Strokes are serious business. My mother suffered through one years ago and I’m not sure she ever fully recovered, even though they caught it early. Everyone wished her well and we’ve been pulling for her because we love her. But my mother wasn’t the deciding [...]

It’s all in the timing.

Blog: December 20th, 2006

In 2001, according to former terrorism czar Richard Clark, he and others in the government demanded that President Bush pay attention to the threat from Al Qaeda. The White House ignored the demands (instead focusing on apparently more pressing matters, such as Internet pornography), and the entire world is familiar with the results of that [...]

When the story matches the ad…

Blog: December 20th, 2006

Came across this moment of synchronicity on the Washington Post’s website this morning, and just had to capture it for posterity:  There comes a time when you have to cut your losses, admit your mistakes (or at the very least, declare victory) and leave, and we very well may be at that point right now. What [...]

Merry Christmas, Iraq, three years late

Blog: December 24th, 2006

Is it just me, or does anyone else think this is something we should have done THREE @#$% YEARS AGO?
THE White House is expected to announce a reconstruction package for Iraq as part of a plan for a “surge” of up to 30,000 troops into Baghdad when President George W Bush unveils America’s new strategy [...]

Candorville: more respect for the truth than for the dead?

Blog: January 8th, 2007

“Be to my faults a little blind, Be to my virtues very kind.”I’m not sure who originally wrote that phrase. I’ve seen it attributed to various people from John Lennon to Ben Franklin, and I have yet to come across a definitive account of its origin. Maybe that’s because I haven’t spent too much time [...]

An incipient dictator spends his political capital

Blog: January 10th, 2007

His victory was determined by electronic voting machines that are indirectly under his control, he’s consolidating the Media and the now virtually one-party state under his command, and he’s planning to assume special legislative powers - powers previously outside the domain of the executive branch. For those of us who’ve criticized the GOP’s determination to [...]

Silence is Betrayal

Blog: January 15th, 2007

It’s important to notice when these settings are used to preach something other than the virtues of supply-side economics, pre-emptive wars and homophobia. There was a time when the religious movement in this country was characterized more by Martin Luther King, Jr. than by James Dobson.
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Get ready for President Clinton

Blog: January 25th, 2007

Dick Cheney, the man who’s been consistently wrong about every major prediction, took a break from gathering flowers and candy from the Baghdad streets to weigh in on the ‘08 election:
US Vice President Dick Cheney said that Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton will not win the White House in 2008 and would not make a good [...]

Washington Times disavows Insight over Obama story

Blog: January 29th, 2007

Like alcoholic parents trying to disavow their crack-whore son, the Washington Times is attempting to distance itself from the bogus Obama-madrassah story — a story that they and Fox News had amplified.
The Washington Times, which is also owned by the Unification Church, but operates separately from the Web site, quickly disavowed the article. Its national [...]