From “So Karl Rove is an ‘agnostic’” on This Modern World:
A few days ago I wondered whether Christopher Hitchens had accurately described Karl Rove as “not a believer.� The answer seems to be yes. Christopher Schipper sends along this transcript of Wayne Slater on Fresh Air last September, talking about The Architect, his book about [...]
Even though this is old news, and I haven’t been posting any political stuff on here at all, I couldn’t pass this one by, since I just heard the audio from this for the first time, which is even more revealing than the transcript I had previously read. This is an audio clip I edited [...]
December 31, 2006 – 1:15 am
from Tom Tomorrow:
For Bush supporters, the glass is always half full!
1. David Limbaugh: “It’s easy to dismiss [Democrats’] appeasement mindset now since we haven’t confirmed Saddam had new stockpiles of WMD … �
Sadly No’s response: “‘Haven’t confirmed’ is one way to put it. I also haven’t confirmed leprechauns flying out of my pants, although I’m [...]
October 22, 2006 – 11:35 pm
With the recent comments made by Barack Obama regarding considering running in the 2008 race, and the constant speculation about Hillary Clinton running and Rice on the Republican side possibly being interested at some point, it makes me consider an interesting (and very unfortunate) question.
It’s my opinion that American society has unfortunately not progressed to [...]
October 12, 2006 – 7:04 pm
Sure, all these added “security measures” like dumping out fluids at airports and the larger general disregard of privacy and constitutional rights are a real pain, but at least people can’t fly airplanes into tall buildings in New York anymore.
Oh, wait, they still can.
Luckily this one wasn’t piloted by people who actually intended to do [...]
September 15, 2006 – 3:02 pm
A Defining Moment for America - The president goes to Capitol Hill to lobby for torture.
President Bush rarely visits Congress. So it was a measure of his painfully skewed priorities that Mr. Bush made the unaccustomed trip yesterday to seek legislative permission for the CIA to make people disappear into secret prisons and have information [...]
Last night the house struck a blow against net neutrality by a 3 to 1 margin.
The truly outrageous thing about this is that polls show that most Americans (70%) are “concerned about providers blocking or impairing their access to Internet services or sites”, which is exactly what net neutrality laws are meant to prevent.
IMHO, this [...]
I’ve decided to start referring to pretty much everyone I know as “illegal drivers”, since I’m pretty sure everyone I know regularly violates the speed limit laws. Even if some don’t, the generalization is “true enough” that I won’t worry about lumping people in who it doesn’t apply to.
My next step is to lobby to [...]
April 24, 2006 – 10:09 pm
Why is it that people can often be so quick to categorize? Humans are very unique creatures, and any attempt to corral them into particular sets is always imperfect at best and usually counterproductive.
I particularly despise the “left wing” vs. “right wing” labels, despite their common use in today’s vernacular. How I feel about one [...]
April 11, 2006 – 11:23 pm
In one of those interesting twists of logic, it appears that the importance of freedom as it relates to the feeling of security actually fluctuates depending on where you live, longitudinally speaking.
For example, if you live in the United States, it is now apparently considered acceptable to surrender any of your freedoms the government deems [...]