Category: The Good Old US of A
Let Every Lumbering, Brain-Eating, Mansion-Haunting, Poltergeist Vote Count
Thankfully, there’s a state in our land where the living-impaired need not fear voter suppression. It is rumored they were energized to vote by the promise of “a brain in every pot” and a bright white light put in special voting booths into which they were encouraged to walk.
News Flash: President Tries to Get One By Us
The Associated Press has uncovered an unprecedented piece of political legerdemain in the making. The success of President Bush’s push to remake Social Security depends on convincing the public that the system is “heading for an iceberg,” according to a White House strategy note that makes the case for cutting benefits promised for the future. [...]
An Aside on the Gonzales Nomination
I’ve been listening to the nomination hearings for Alberto Gonzales on C-SPAN radio today. It is excitement nearly personified, I have to tell you. The bloviating, especially from Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden has reached near-Biblical proportions. One of the objections to the Gonzales memo about which I posted last night is the reasoning that [...]
Alberto Gonzales and the Memo Deceit
Alberto Gonzales is being unfairly accused of favoring torture and of being the architect behind the abuses committed as Abu Ghraib. That characterization is dead, flat wrong and, worse, seems to me to be an intentional deception. Here are a couple of the typical accusations. First, Andrew Sullivan: Today, we find that not only did [...]
The Lie About Alberto
I”m betting that you’re going to hear about a gazillion times that Alberto Gonzalez, the nominee to become Attorney General, actually wrote a memo that endorses torture. He did no such thing. The allegation is a lie that’s a lot easier to explain in a 30-second soundbyte than the truth. I’ve actually read the memo [...]
Mr. Capitol Heights Mayor Person, Tear Down That Wall!
I fully expect the International Criminal Court at The Hague, and the UNited Nations to be all over this in no time. After all, if it’s wrong to put up a fence to keep criminals from crossing from one political boundary to another, it ought to be wrong in every instance, right?
Something To Get Behind
Marc has something we all ought to get behind. Essence Magazine is launching an effort to take on “the slut images and verbal abuse projected onto black women by hip hop lyrics and videos”. I sincerely hope they make huge progress.
The World Turned Upside Down
This spring, the National Rifle Association will have a new President. Her name is Sandy Froman. She’s from Berkeley, CA, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. Let me say that again. The new President of the NRA is from Berkely, California, graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. How [...]
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