“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
”I won’t say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I’m going to [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Director: Alex Gibney
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Rated R (Restricted)
Label: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Release Date: 2008-11-18
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Paul Krugman
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Hardcover
224 pages
Those “Nutty” Evangelicals
Published by October 13th, 2006 in Church & State and Politics. 1 CommentThis story from today’s Los Angeles Times might come as a surprise to the rubes who voted for Republicans thinking that the party might actually believe in their cause, but it’s no surprise to many of us secular types who watched in disgust as the mixing of religion and political campaigning grew into an ugly [...]
I see the Bush Administration has drafted McCain as a player in their “blame game.” Remember when they said they wouldn’t play the “blame game” when they were being rightly criticized for their failed response to Katrina? Several months later they started playing the game with gusto and blamed Clinton for 9/11.
And now that North [...]
Ted Rall on The Military Commissions Act:
The Military Commissions Act signals that our traditional system of beliefs and government has irrevocably devolved into moral bankruptcy. Memo to Senator McCain: You don’t negotiate with terrorists, and you don’t compromise with torturers.
It doesn’t matter how much food aid we ship to the victims of the next global [...]
Fox News reported yesterday that, “Comedy Central’s fake news stars have no intention of making a run for the White House.” Oh really? Did Fox ever really think they would make a run? It’s news that they’re not running?
Jon Stewart said this about the shirt:
Nothing says “I am ashamed of you my government” more than [...]
Not Our Finest Hour
Published by October 9th, 2006 in Middle East, Politics and al Qaeda. 0 CommentsThe best thing that can be said about the recently passed bill on the treatment and legal handling of detainees from the war on Islamist terrorism is that now, at least, it is no longer a rogue president assuming authority and power he does not possess under the Constitution that sets out the parameters. Now [...]
I was watching this new ad for Chevy’s Silverado and right in the middle of it, I saw the well known picture of Rosa Parks sitting on a bus. It’s the first time in a while that I found myself shocked at their misuse of tragic events that have brought heroic deeds from ordinary people [...]
Treat yourself to this Knitters video today.
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President Bush has his own way of protesting. When a bill he doesn’t like arrives on his desk for signature, he signs it and then adds a statement about why he’ll ignore the law.
This story is about his most recent signing statement.
President Bush this week asserted that he has the executive authority to disobey a [...]
Photo from The Seattle Times. Story here.
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