January 31, 2007
When Chickens Come Home To Roost
It seems to me the entire span of George W. Bush’s tenure in office has been one long game of Three Card Monte.
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January 24, 2007
The Biggest Dick In America
Does anyone else want to kill Dick Cheney? I mean put both hands around his fat, fleshy windpipe and just choke the life out of the bastard? Or get not-quite-falling-down drunk and shoot him in the face with a shotgun? How about hang him from the end of a good, sturdy rope and film it all with a cell phone camera? Maybe just waterboard him once a day for every American who’s been killed or wounded in Iraq…
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January 11, 2007
The President, In The Library, With The Plan
Little more than one year ago, on November 30, 2005, the Bush administration unveiled to great fanfare a glossy, red, white, and blue publication entitled, National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. The president made a big speech to the midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, where he said, among other things,
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January 3, 2007
The “B” And The “S”
A couple of stories had various jaws flapping today, neither of which reflects too well on the media, the punditocracy, or the so-called leadership position of the United States in world affairs. In one, certain quarters are up in arms over the cellphone camera recording of Saddam Hussein’s execution to which I linked yesterday. In the other, presumptive 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is learning quickly the calculus of celebrity in the modern age.
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January 2, 2007
Best Laid Plans
So much for New Year’s resolutions.
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