Today Paul Kiel presents Talking Points Memo’s updated list of corrupt Bush administration officials. TPM’s standard of proof is fairly high, considering that Karl Rove didn’t make the list (if only we knew what was in those deleted e-mails!)
Since a complete catalog of administration officials who’ve been accused of some form of corruption or […]
Brilliant editorial in today’s NY Times:
The C.I.A. contracted out its inhumanity to nations with no respect for life or law, sending prisoners — some of them innocents kidnapped on street corners and in airports — to be tortured into making false confessions, or until it was clear they had nothing to say and so were […]
If the recent disclosures about so many Republicans is any indication…
I don’t know whether people are born that way,” responded Huckabee, “but one thing I know, that the behavior one practices is a choice.
An oldie but goodie.
We are reminded at the end that Reagan was an idiot too. Why are Republicans afraid of smart people?
The Iowa caucuses are on January 3. The New Hampshire primary is scheduled for January 8. I voted in the Utah primary today. Yes, they are already mailing out vote-by-mail ballots.
OK, you can vote on Election Day if you want to, but why wait? Register for vote-by mail. To cast […]
The conversation the other day in response to my post about the virginity fetish got me thinking about the oft-repeated statement one should wait for marriage before having sex. That statement contains within itself a set of assumptions that need examined about the “goodness” of married sex.
You live here, here, here, here and everywhere.
The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007
9. You
Charges: You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 […]
Worth reading: Juan Cole explains the top ten Iraq myths of 2007. Needless to say, these myths didn’t come to us innocently– the Bush administration, various politicians (including Democrats) and the news media are promoting them.
10. Myth: The US public no longer sees Iraq as a central issue in the 2008 presidential […]
And everyone who voted for Bush, and those of you paralyzed in silent neutrality. We can’t afford you anymore.
Some 20 years ago, I was taking an evening German course from a woman named Phila Heimann. Mrs. Heimann recounted her experiences in the US. For instance, as recent immigrants during World War Two, her school-aged children faced discrimination from their American born peers. When asked “Are you Germans?” her kids responded proudly, “No, we are […]
If you are using public facilities, you cannot deny membership to any member of the public. Allow me to expand - if you are using a tax supported building to hold your meetings and you are paying a symbolic annual rent of $1, which means the taxpayers are effectively footing the entire bill for your […]
I’m having one of those days where I realize we have a lot of people in our society who have “Adult Deficit Disorder” - this is the syndrome that makes them think the rules apply to everyone but them and if they wheedle and whine enough someone will make an exception for them and they […]
It’s a sad commentary on our politics that such an obvious necessity as impeaching the worst President and Vice President in history is also so unlikely to happen. But yet we must try. We can do this thing, once we realize that impeachment results in resignation, and hardly ever culminates in a […]
Today’s D-News has an op-ed piece by Warren Throckmorton extolling the virtues of virginity. Full of slippery logic and the casual assumption that not having sex is better than having sex, Throckmortion begins with a recounting of the story of Saint Nicholas that includes this nugget:
I also discovered that Saint Nicholas is a patron […]
Vladimir Putin should share his Time Man of the Year award with his buddy, George Bush II. They think alike. Both run absolutely lawless governments unconstrained by constitutional law, international law, or municipal laws of their own states, or the common law of humankind. Both deserve impeachment. Fortunately, some articles of […]
I have little editorial comment on this new development other than to say, fuck you Bush! And a holiday prayer that The Real America vis-a-vis our principles come crashing down on his coke head.
Happy Holidays!
From The Nation Lawyers Stepping Up
Katrina vanden Heuvel
We are lawyers in the United States of America. As such, we have […]
I’m still thinking about problem solving this morning.
On this chilly and snowy day in Salt Lake City, the obvious question of turn up the heat or put on a sweater seems to invite me into thinking more deeply about problems and their solutions. If I turn up the heat, my house will be warmer […]
Sometimes, not often, I stop to reflect that I am now part of the “older generation” even though I’m fairly young by boomer standards. For example, when the AARP started mailing me application forms, or when people got excited about the so-called Global War on Terrorism (GWOT, pronounced “gee, what?”)
Back in 1998, CNN […]
h/t Crooks and Liars A Crippling Legacy
By: Nicole Belle
Vanity Fair offers a sobering look at the costs that we — and our children and their children — will pay for the last eight years of Bush/Cheney economics.
The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be […]
According to the conservative numbers of the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, while the Democrats controlled the U.S. Congress in 2007 another 18,749 Iraqis and another 896 American soldiers died in the disastrous occupation of Iraq. The total of refugees and internally displaced people who have been forced out of their homes: 4.5 million. […]
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