We Can Remember Them for You Wholesale
Fort Drum in New York is discontinuing individual memorial services for fallen soldiers in favor of a single monthly ceremony, the business of death having become routine.
May 31, 2007 - FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) - Army officials at Fort Drum say the military post will begin hosting monthly memorial services for 10th Mountain Division soldiers [...]
Strawberries
Dallas Morning News columnist Georgie Anne Geyer hints deliciously at Da Prez’ growing paranoia as his wars grow less and less popular:
The White House sees terrorists as born, not created by history, bearing the mark of Cain, not the mark of circumstance. There is a scarlet “T” written on their foreheads at birth and [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed (Pensive Edition)
Londonbeat: “I’ve Been Thinking About You”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Thou hadst been better born a dog,
Than answer my wak’d wrath.” —Othello, 3.3.368-69
Gratuitous Video Feed (Time’s Winged Chariot Edition)
Crash Test Dummies: “Afternoons & Coffee Spoons”
Universal Health Coverage
First out of the gate with a universal health care plan is presidential candidate Barack Obama, promising to do what Congress has been unable to accomplish—ever:
“My plan begins by covering every American. If you already have health insurance, the only thing that will change for you under this plan is that the amount of money [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all,
And art confederate with a damned pack
To make a loathsome abject scorn of me.”
—The Comedy of Errors, 4.4.99-101
Only W
“Only George Bush could fight a war for oil, and not get any.” –Bill Maher
Gratuitous Video Feed
Australian duo Sigrid and Lee perform as Co-E-sion, this time with an acoustic version of, of all things, Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Boogie Wonderland”
Abandoning The Troops
Digby takes on the idiotic notion that defunding the war would endanger American forces in the field, finding it symptomatic of the country’s intellectual crisis:
The Iraq funding debate is a perfect example of hundreds we could choose from. The bill provided for the troops in every way. But it demanded that the president begin to [...]
