Pre-Millennial Prophecy
Everything you need to know about the motes and beams of modern American politics, in twenty-five words or less:
“It’s vile. It’s more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.”
Who said it? Why, it was none other than Rep. Mark Foley, [...]
“Sometimes criticism is the only credible kind of support.”
So says James, he of the richly colored photographs and diabolically intermittent ‘blog updates. His post from yesterday is fascinating for the health info, but I just love this particular sentence. It’s more or less a raison d’etre for my own online political rantings.
Tough love can be the highest form of love, because [...]
America (1789-2006)
It’s over. Only thirty-two of forty-four Senate Democrats, and only one Republican (plus retiring independent Jim Jeffords), stood against the green-lighting of torture, the suspension of habeas corpus, and the grandfathered immunity of the Administration from prosecution for any past violations.
Our unitary Executive has been given carte blanche. The New York Times ticks [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Henceforth be never number’d among men!” –A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 3.2.67
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“It would discredit the blest gods, proud man,
To answer such a question.” –Troilus And Cressida, 4.5.246-47
Don’t Undress With Texas
The Lone Star State is once again safe from the evils of nekkidness. Denver’s Channel 7 tells us of a Texas art teacher who has just been fired:
FRISCO, Texas — An award-winning Texas art teacher who was reprimanded after one of her fifth-grade students saw a nude sculpture during a trip to a museum [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull fool!” –The Tempest, 5.1.295.97
Rice Lies (Only on Days Ending in “Y”)
Raw Story breaks it:
A memo received by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after she became National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements the Secretary made to reporters yesterday….
“We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda,” Rice told a reporter for the New York Post on Monday. “Big pieces [...]
The Ticking Time-Bomb Lie (#23,505 in a series)
In The Progressive, Alfred McCoy debunks the scenario of the ticking time bomb used to call for the legalization of torture. They’re selling it on television, which seems to be the only place it works. Our Fearful Leader spake thusly unto the multitudes:
In defense of the CIA’s past and future use of this [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“A gentle riddance,–draw the curtain, go.” –The Merchant of Venice, 2.7.78
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