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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. [...]

A huge portion of my job involves solving problems. 
When someone calls me and says, “There’s a problem” I normally give them the third degree - “Which outcome are looking for?  What steps are you following?  What do you think should be happening?  What is actually happening?  Why do you think what is actually happening is different [...]

The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, according to data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.
The total income of the top 1.1 million households was $1.8 trillion, or 18.1 percent of the total [...]

Red Dog suggests that gravitas sounds like a thyroid disease. While the quotation that always stays in my mind and my heart doesn’t directly deal with our discussion of presidential candidates with gravitas, allow me to suggest for your reading a brilliant book by a brilliant and courageous woman who wrote on the topic.
Simone [...]

Via Think Progress: Bill O’Reilly declares General David Petraeus his Person of the Year, “by a wide margin.” National Review says Time ought to pick Petraeus for Man of the Year. OK then, let’s look at how this year went:

January: President George Bush promotes Petraeus to four-star rank and appoints him as the [...]