While I’m at it, here’s a little something Will clued me in to. There are other human rights that the UN is trying to craft declarations of, as part of its continuing efforts to establish some baselines for civilized national behaviours.
These are two quotes from what are essentially meeting minutes from a committee meeting wherein [...]
For a couple of years now, this image has run in the sidebar of this blog:
If you didn’t know what that was about, you can click through and read the post from the time I put it up.
Today, I’m taking it down.
There are two reasons, and both of them amount to my hope that America [...]
Well, I guess I’m done shopping at Home Depot. How will I survive with only Piercy’s, Kent, Rona, and dozens of smaller stores?
I am now drinking Macallan as old as I am, and raising a toast to President Obama. Damn it feels nice to say that.
In a few minutes I will begin entertaining myself by imagining the Red State heads exploding if Obama came out to make his acceptance speech to the strains of Power To The [...]
Did you see the ACLU press release today about how the American terrorist watch list now has more than one million people on it?
“America’s new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what’s wrong with this administration’s approach to security: it’s unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the rights of the innocent [...]
And in is-anyone-surprised-by-this news, the Senate intel committee’s Phase II report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq is just out.
You can read the details and the reports themselves over at TPM.
I’ll just list some of the choice points from Sen. Rockafeller’s press release, and if any of them surprise you, raise your hand and give yourself [...]
Did you catch the snippet from (retired) General Sanchez’s new book that was in the WaPo earlier this week?
As I was reading this bit:
During a videoconference with his national security team and generals, Sanchez writes, Bush launched into what he described as a “confused” pep talk:
“Kick ass!” he quotes the president as saying. “If somebody [...]
During the heyday of what was billed as the Reagan Revolution, sometimes as the New American Dawn, or the “unfettered free market,” I could discover no common cause among the several degrees of of rightist separation (conservative, neoconservative, libertarian, reactionary, and evangelical) other than the moral lesson invariably found in their one and only cautionary [...]
I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown [...]
OK, let’s close some tabs.
First off, let’s start with our old friend, the head Inquisitioner, Pope Benedict.
It appears he’s been a naughty fellow.
A BBC documentary has exposed that Pope Benedict XVI, aka Cardinal Ratzinger, played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests.
In 2001, while he was a [...]
Seriously?
I mean, seriously?
Republicans picked Huckabee?
Even in crazy Jesusland, isn’t “I won’t sign this bill because calling a tornado an ‘act of God’ makes God look bad” crazy enough to make someone unelectable?
I expected some ludicrousness from Americans, especially Republicans, but my expectations have been exceeded.
And I thought the TSA facecrime thing would be the dumbest [...]
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