Smartly, Iraq boosters gave up the tired cliche about painted schools and women’s clinics a long time ago. The work got too dangerous for us, contracting with Americans became a near death sentence and our government’s pathological hatred of oversight guaranteed that money spent largely disappeared to shoddy work and unaccountable fraud. These days the …
Archives for April 2007
At Least It Wasn’t A Boy
Another sex scandal. Tim will be titillated, as his favorite Madam gets another scalp.
Abortion Clinics Bombing
She is right. Planting bombs at abortion clinics is terrorism. Eric Rudolph and those like him are domestic terrorists.
Help Me Please
Here is the situation. I switched computers, and have apparently lost all my information for this website. Meaning, I can not log in to make changes to the website because I not only do not know where to log in, but what my username PW are. Basically, all I have is the ability to log …
Friday Open Thread
FOUR DOLLAR GASOLINE. Discuss.
Fealty
When the next Shakespeare pens an Oedipus Rex or Richard III, his largest problem might be picking our president’s central, tragic flaw. Would he choose the epic lack of intellectual curiosity?* It would be sorely tempting to pick the overdeveloped messiah complex which blocks out the faintest hint of self-doubt. Merely separating phenomena (the oedipal …
Watching the Debate
So I am watching the debate (accidentally, I turned the tv on, and MSNBC was on), and looking at the candidates from the Democrats on stage tonight, and looking at the candidates from the Republicans, my first inclination is to treat the 2008 election like a Browns/Cowboys Superbowl- to root for injuries. I have only …