Fear of T-Shirts
Don’t like those shirts that list the names of America’s fallen in the Iraq war? Pass legislation outlawing their sale!
It ought to go without saying that simply listing the dead isn’t violating anyone’s rights, and that next of kin don’t deserve any special control over such use of a loved one’s name. The [...]
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
With the GOP consistently down in campaign polls, da Prez has turned to an ingenious solution to all of America’s problems: banning gay marriage.
“For decades, activist judges have tried to redefine America by court order,” Mr. Bush said Monday in Statesboro. “Just this last week in New Jersey, another activist court issued a ruling that [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss (Halloween Edition)
“…The scarecrow that affrights our children so.”
–Henry VI, Part I, 1.4.42
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I am whipp’d and scourg’d with rods,
Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear
Of this vile politician.” –Henry IV, Part I, 1.3.236-38
A Marine’s Letter Home
Time requested and received permission to publish this letter from an anonymous Marine officer stationed in Fallujah, a letter written for his family but circulated ever more widely. There is wisdom here for anyone with an opinion on the war in Iraq, wisdom acquired in perhaps the most difficult ways.
Most Profound Man in Iraq [...]
When the Bill Comes Due
Comptroller General David Walker warns of disastrous consequences for America’s permanent deficit and debt:
If the United States government conducts business as usual over the next few decades, a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted for inflation. That’s almost as much as the total net worth of every [...]
Water War
Water service in Highland Park, Michigan, was privatized, and bills are up 60%. In a nasty trick, the bills are attached to property taxes, so that residents unable to pay also lose their homes. Watch the report.
Corporatization of the Commons sucks. Always.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Fiend! Most credulous fool, egregious murderer, thief,
any thing that’s due to all the villains past, in being, to
come!” –Cymbeline, 5.5.210-13
The Distinction of Rank Preserved
Three miles on the treadmill this evening, while watching A&E’s 1995 Pride And Prejudice (screen cap above, about forty-five minutes into the production, when I finished my run and cool-down). After many, many viewings, the last just this past weekend, I’m still convinced that it’s just about perfect, and certainly the best thing [...]
Ohio. GOP. Stupid.
Congressional dim bulb Jean “Cowards Cut and Run” Schmidt (R-OH), frantic at being held accountable for her only famous words, has threatened her Democratic opponent with the specter of a House Standards of Official Conduct rule against the use of Floor proceedings in campaign ads. Read her letter here.
The punch line: she forgot that [...]
