Disillusionment with President Bush and the GOP-controlled Congress has helped to give Democrats a strong edge in the fall congressional elections. Astonishingly, many on the left are using this moment to turn on those Democrats in Congress who voted to give Bush authority to invade Iraq. In doing so they are jeopardizing an opportunity to [...]
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After completing the previous post, I went surfing around and stopped at Crooks and Liars where I found this story about Bush saying that he regrets saying “Bring ‘em On” and “Dead or Alive.”
Huh?
Who is this impostor?
Watch the video. It’s quite shocking.
A transcript of the whole press briefing is on the White House website, [...]
Thinking about Gore Again…
Paul Krugman writes today about Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth. In his column he talks about the disinformation campaign waged by oil companies, how working to slow global warming would not adversely affect the economy, and…
Why, after all, was Mr. Gore’s popular-vote margin in the 2000 election narrow enough that [...]
So what do FBI agents snack on while searching for Jimmy Hoffa’s
remains?
Why Jimmy Hoffa cupcakes of course.
They are on sale now in Milford, Michigan where the FBI tore down a thirty-year-old farmhouse today so they can search beneath it for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains.
The FBI got the tip on Hoffa’s whereabouts from 75-year-old man serving a [...]
Listen to Bob Dylan today. He’s 65.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Johnny’s in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I’m on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trench coat
Badge out, laid off
Says he’s got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It’s somethin’ you did
God knows when
But you’re doin’ it again
You better duck down the [...]
This week’s edition of This Modern World is very good, and it features your old pal Charlie Brown.
Now about that recent publication, Hell in a Handbasket, a collection of Bush era cartoons by Tom Tomorrow. Have you bought it yet? He really, really, really would appreciate the sale. Buy one for a [...]
I often ask defenders of this war what they think our nation learned from its experience in Vietnam. The response I usually get is, “Nothing.”
Case in point:
A Pentagon probe into the death of Iraqi civilians last November in the Iraqi city of Haditha will show that U.S. Marines “killed innocent civilians in cold blood,” [...]
Colbert is Freaking Brilliant
Published by May 17th, 2006 in Arts & Leisure and Politics. 0 CommentsIf you haven’t realized by now that Stephen Colbert is brilliant and one of our nation’s greatest treasures, you need only watch this video on the Media Matters website:
Colbert lampooned conservatives who equated Ahmadinejad letter with Democratic-progressive talking points
Summary: Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert mocked various conservative media figures for recent outrageous statements, all of which [...]
Or drive around in a car for that matter - don’t throw stones.
Okay, so I was driving home from work the other day I stopped behind a car sporting this bumper sticker:
I read it and thought, “Ah… one of those health-conscious vegetarians. She’s entitled to her opinion, and she’s free to express it with [...]
