John Murtha, Stung (Time Warp Edition)
In 1980, Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) met with gentlemen purporting to represent a sheik named Abdul, and asked them for back-door money in exchange for legislative favors (a grant of asylum to the fictitious and eponymous sheik Abdul). He was later to discover that he met FBI agents, and that their successful pseudo-bribery attempt [...]
A New Senator on the Class War
Virginia’s Senator-elect Jim Webb points a finger at the American class struggle as few of his peers ever have:
The most important–and unfortunately the least debated–issue in politics today is our society’s steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century. America’s top tier has grown infinitely [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“A terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged
off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof
itself would have earned him.” –Twelfth Night, 3.4.180-83
