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Hoodoo Gurus: “Come Anytime”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“A huge translation of hypocrisy,
Vilely compil’d.” —Love’s Labour’s Lost, 5.2.51-52
Bush Lies
President Bush faces yet another test of his political power in the matter of a spending increase for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Democrats are pushing for a $35 billion spending increase for SCHIP, but Bush has threatened to veto it. He has proposed a $5 billion increase. Some Democrats believe they can secure a [...]
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Jack White, from the Cold Mountain soundtrack: “Wayfaring Stranger”
Quote of the Day (or Whenever)
“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.” —Spider Robinson
Why We Fight, Part 257
Guess who make out like bandits when we go to war?
CEOs at top defense contractors have reaped annual pay gains of 200% to 688% in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
The chief executives at the seven defense contractors whose bosses made the most pocketed nearly a half-billion dollars from 2002 through last [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“False face must hide what the false heart
doth know.” —Macbeth, 1.7.83
They Love Their War More Than They Love the Troops
Republican senators successfully filibustered the so-called Webb Amendment, which would have guaranteed service members equal time at home and deployed.
The 56-44 vote - four short of reaching the 60 needed to advance - all but assured that Democrats would be unable to muster the support needed to pass tough anti-war legislation by year’s end. The [...]
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Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris: “Goodbye”
Flip-Floppers
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney once (1995) embraced the concept of full civil rights for gays, but now campaigns on the usual homophobia disguised as a “defense” of marriage.
Meanwhile, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is set to address the NRA, the group he once labeled “extremists.”
Arizona Senator John McCain once…
criticized [the late] TV preacher [...]
