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Scare link seen at Drudge: DJs Put a Half Million Marchers in L.A.’s Streets… Oh yeah, them agitators are whipping them up, all right. And in Spanish, so we can’t understand what they’re saying! Could it simply be that Hispanics, the targets of immigration reform, recognize racism when they see it? Damn right they’re marching.
This is rich: Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter. “The last thing I heard him say before he squeezed the trigger was ‘go fuck yourself.’”
I haven’t posted anything overtly political in a while, so here goes: From a speech by Al Gore, 16 January 2006: . . . As President Eisenhower said, “Any who act as if freedom’s defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.” Fear drives […]
Listening to today’s coverage of Samuel Alito’s confirmation hearings, I wasn’t sure which reality applied: the reality I grew up in, or the reality of the alternate universe next door. Like this unitary executive business: what the hell is that? Out of nowhere comes, to hear the media tell it, this well-precedented and widely-accepted doctrine […]
Remember this perennial Soviet Union joke? “If the USSR ever takes over the Sahara, within three years there’ll be a shortage of sand.” Yeah, that one? So how’s this for irony?
I meant to write something intelligent about the King’s President’s domestic espionage and warrentless wiretap program, but David Neiwert at Ornicus says it all, and says it better. All that’s left for me to add is this: if you’re surprised by this action of the Bush administration, you haven’t been paying attention.
On the matter of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, Crips street gang co-founder and convicted murderer who was executed in California early this morning, I look into my soul and can’t find an ounce of outrage. Simply put, I’m not opposed to the death penalty. I’m not opposed to retribution. I’m not opposed, that is, so long […]
I have to admit I’m curious as to what actually happened on American Airlines Flight 924. Here’s what CNN said: Dave Adams, a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service, said Alpizar had run up and down the plane’s aisle yelling, “I have a bomb in my bag.” But according to the same article: . […]