So, I’ve been reading a lot of “only sixteen months to go” talk about Bush, and a lot of conversation about the Democrats playing a “long game” by letting him have enough rope to hang himself and the Republicans with him, etc. However, I think that this notion that however bad it gets, it will all be over by November… Read more →
Category: Head-Explodes
Taxes and The Rich
When someone who is at the poor end of the wealth spectrum (i.e. the vast majority of people in the world) make statements about income disparity, class inequality, or the basic unfairness of a nation’s infrastructure, even if those statements are objectively and factually true, they can easily be at least somewhat deflected by observing that those statements line up… Read more →
Scooter
Like everyone who’s even vaguely awake in the “Western” world I’ve seen dozens of stories already about Bush’s commuting of Libby’s sentence. Like everyone who’s even vaguely awake, I see this for what it is. As I read in the NYT: “in this case, Mr. Bush did not sound like a leader making tough decisions about justice. He sounded like… Read more →
Separation of Church And State
Well, we already knew there was no such thing as Rule of Law anymore, so why not toss that whole No State Religion thing out as well? Man, I already mocked Alabama this week–I’m out of punchlines. Here: State of Alabama – Office of the Governor Bob Riley – Press Releases MONTGOMERY – Governor Bob Riley is encouraging Alabamians to… Read more →
Banjos playing through the broken glass
I love Harper’s. I suspect I’ve read every issue published since I was about fourteen. And their online presence is also pretty nice. So obviously I eventually got around to the piece this week on Justice in Alabama. It’s worth a read, if only to make you ask Mr. Young’s question “What are you doing Alabama? You got the rest… Read more →
How much civil disobedience can you buy for $7.63?
The politeness of this letter is in no way commensurate with the amount of swearing that the precipitating incident invoked: June 11, 2007 RE: Inventory Number LC XXX XXX XXXUS CBSA Casual Refund Centre 1583 Hollis Street Halifax NS B3J 1V4 Dear Madam or Sir: Today I received a package on which I believe an incorrect value for duty was… Read more →
Let me get this straight…
…some business man GOP party chairman can sit in Arkansas and call for more attacks on American soil in order to swing people behind Bush and the war in Iraq, and never realize what his realpolitik notions mean in terms of actual lives. Meanwhile, soldiers actually in the field get it. Grrr. Read more →
Breaking The Silence
I am really going to have to look more seriously into the power of Spreadshirt. I wish I could think of a pithy phrase that encapsulated the “Martha Stewart did two years straight up, and you couldn’t even do 4 days–Martha would make you her bitch” idea. Read more →
Good Friday, Part 5
Here’s some irony for you: an article about Fred Phelps cheered me up today. If you don’t know who Fred Phelps is, you can do a little Googling. If I were feeling really snarky, I would list some quotes from Phelp’s church to illustrate the beauty and majesty of religion, but I’d feel dirty linking to him, or his charmingly… Read more →
Attention All Humans
OK, look, it’s been almost two years since I felt compelled to give all humanity a command, but this one has really been building up. Here’s the core of it: an escalator is not a ride. This is not an amusement park, it’s a tool to speed traffic between different levels. You don’t just stand there–your legs still work. Maybe…… Read more →
Yes, I am a picker of nits.
OK, I’ve learned to live with the fact that nobody understands why “try to” is more correct than “try and”, or why “hopefully” is a cheat for when you want to say “I hope”. I’ve made my peace, as ’twere. But, that doesn’t stop the hundreds of minor errors that I see every day from driving me nuts. Not the… Read more →
This city is insane
I am so embarrassed for Boston. I keep alternating between wanting to laugh and wanting to punch someone. I want to laugh when I think about all this fuss over some litebrite aliens. I want to punch someone when some old man make a statement about how this is all very serious, or when I hear news organizations reporting on… Read more →
Today’s Rage Aneurisym
I’m not sure which of these two straws are going to break the camel’s back, but… Over at Kos, they’re highlighting this segment of the NYT article headed “Pressure Builds Over Plan for Troop Increase“: Mr. Bush’s National Security Adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, said in an interview on “Meet the Press” on NBC that the White House has sufficient money… Read more →
How the Bush Administration Is Giving Me A Rage Aneurisym (Today)
Okay, so we already know that the White House has now taken the unprecedented step of firing at least four and likely seven US Attorneys in the middle of their terms of office — at least some of whom are in the midst of corruption investigations of Bush administration officials and key Republican lawmakers. We also know that they’re taking… Read more →
Well, he is the Emporer, isn’t he?
Every time I think that there’s no way I could despise Bush and his administration more, he finds a way. “Do you believe as Commander in Chief you have the authority to put the troops in there no matter what the Congress wants to do,” 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley asks Bush in the short clip uploaded to the CBS… Read more →
