Many, Many George Allens
Joseph Hughes indicts the GOP, with perhaps too wide a brush, as a source of the jingoistic racism/xenophobia fueling America’s so-called War on Terror. I think it’s unfair to identify the cynical use of hatred and fear with an entire party–no most Republicans don’t spout this garbage, and I’m sure many don’t even think [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“But it was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they
have a good thing, to make it too common.” –Henry IV, Part 2, 1.2.214-16
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother is
reputed one of the best that is.” –All’s Well That Ends Well, 4.3.279-80
McCain Breaks His Own Law
The darkly humorous story:
Hotline On Call today reports that John McCain will be raising money for Adjudant General Stan Spears in South Carolina. However the fundraiser violates the law he helped write. The invitaition [sic] says that the “minimum donation requested is $100″ and says nothing about the maximum….
The funny part, if there is one, [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Who deserves greatness,
Deserves your hate; and your affections are
A sick man’s appetite, who desires most that
Which would increase his evil.” –Coriolanus, 1.1.175-78
Why They Hate Us, Part 84,371
Rolling Stone’s web site offers a bit of the tale of a teenaged Taliban fighter named Omar, and of the life he has lived in Guantanamo Bay since his capture by US forces four years ago:
….After the ferry ride, Omar was evaluated at a base hospital. “Welcome to Israel,” someone told him. Then he was [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil
that’s in me should set hell on fire.” –Merry Wives of Windsor, 5.5.35-36
Wrong At Every Turn
When it comes to “homeland security,” the Bush Administration’s priorities are all too clear. They have a knack, it seems, for cutting funding to vital programs just before a critical need appears. The reign of the Boy King has been one long series of disasters, for which he and his aparatchik appointees have [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“What a sweep of vanity comes this way.” –Timon Of Athens, 1.2.128
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes
tell me plainly that I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir,
I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my
friends I am abused.” –Twelfth Night, 5.1.16-19
