Foggo, Wilkes, et Al. Indicted
Says MSNBC:
SAN DIEGO - The CIA’s former No. 3 official and a defense contractor were charged Tuesday with fraud and other offenses in the corruption investigation that sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison, The Associated Press has learned.
Federal indictments named Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, executive director of the CIA until he resigned [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
Tim Maloney’s Cat Head Theater presents a snippet of Hamlet, in which the title character teases Rosencrantz and Guildenstern—toying with them before killing them, just as a cat would.
And How About the Holocaust?
Count on FOX to cough up a global-warming denier, pitting the expertise of attorney Christopher Horner against…well, against science.
…Fox News guest Christopher Horner “debunks the myths of global warming.” He says that humanity’s actions have not led to climate change and that receding glaciers are a result of “global cooling.”
“Climate changes, weather happens, always has, [...]
Only Following Orders
Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas has withdrawn his guilty plea in his murder-kidnapping court martial, opting out of a deal that would have given him no more than a life sentence. Thomas now says he was following lawful orders:
The charges stem from the slaying of 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad, who was dragged from his home [...]
The Aristocrats
UCLA professor Philip Agre described in 2004 the essential conflict between conservatism and democracy, correctly identifying the former with feudalism, and pointing out where the real elitism and sense of entitlement lies:
The opposite of conservatism is democracy, and contempt for democracy is a constant thread in the history of conservative argument. Instead, conservatism [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill’d?”
–Much Ado About Nothing, 5.1.257
