We’ve got an important race for Senator going on here in Washington State. Senator Cantwell is up for reelection and she’s facing off against Republican candidate Mike McGavick, former CEO of Safeco Insurance Company.
McGavick is running as a moderate and says that he will run a different type of campaign-one that isn’t built on misleading [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
Calvin Trillin
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“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” –George W. Bush, December 18, 2000
He’s tried to become a dictator or at least a “Decider,” especially when it comes to his ill-conceived “War on Terror.” His administration has said that torture is okay, that [...]
In Robert Scheer’s latest column, he points out just how politically motivated the new airport security measures are:
Consider, first off, that the attack envisioned — smuggling liquid-explosive ingredients onto a score of passenger planes — was outlined in chapter five of the bipartisan 9-11 commission report as a plot first exposed a decade ago. The [...]
No blogging from me for the past week or so. Could be burnout or it could be this.
That’s Johnny Dowd at the Tractor Tavern last Friday night. I chose this cell phone photo over some better ones because it’s representative of how I remember the show. Sort of a whisky blur. If you get an [...]
It never ceases to amaze me how far the spokespersons for the Far Right will go to argue in support of heinous war crimes. Take this statement by Rush Limbaugh yesterday:
“Until civilians - frankly, I’m not sure how many of them are actually just innocent little civilians running around versus active Hezbo types, particularly [...]
