Ten Steps to Fascism
The Guardian warns of creeping fascism in America.
It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface; peasants were celebrating harvest festivals in Calabria in 1922; people were shopping and going to the [...]
Call A Waaaaaahmbulance
First Lady Laura Bush says that when it comes to the war in Iraq, no one suffers more than she and President Bush do—”suffer” being a highly relative term, I suppose.
Quote of the Day of the Month
“Basically, first-term president Bush, you invaded to remove the threat of Saddam Hussein. And you, current president Bush, are there to battle the threat created by the lack of Saddam Hussein.” —Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Y’are lazy knaves, and here ye lie baiting of
bombards when ye should do service.”
—Henry VIII, 5.3.79-81
True Colors
Heh. The National Republican Senatorial Committee web site’s multimedia page contains only Fox News clips:
You might think the term “multimedia” would imply that it’s a collection of stuff from various news organizations, plus in-house content from the NRSC. It turns out, though, that it’s nothing but…a collection of Fox News video clips. Every clip [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. Therefore tremble
and depart.” —As You Like It, 5.1.55-57
Dept. of Not Getting Over It
Free Press reminds us of the strange phenomena which tipped Ohio toward George W. Bush in 2004, and of the fingerprints on the matter which seem to be the GOP’s:
Numerous tech-savvy bloggers, starting with the online investigative consortium epluribusmedia.org and their November 2006 article cross-posted by contributor luaptifer to Dailykos, and Joseph Cannon’s blog at [...]
Washing Our Hands of the Troops
The Army Times seems willing to report on the mistreatment of soldiers—not the endless and underequipped redeployments into ill-conceived wars, of course, but at least on those individuals lost in the system:
After an hour of bench-pressing a log weighing several hundred pounds during Army Special Forces selection training in February 2006, five soldiers lying on [...]
The More Things Change
It’s all about the money, and the shift in control of Congress means that Democrats are now raking in at least as much as Republicans did, says Ken Silverstein:
Last spring, with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, I wrote an item saying that for corporations and federal contractors looking for favors in Washington, it was [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting,
proud, violent, testy magistrates—alias fools.”
—Coriolanus, 2.1.49-49
