November 8, 2007
It’s been called “the defining struggle of our time” by the rootin’-tootin’est vice president this country has ever had. Faced with criticism over his policies, or doubt concerning progress in the so-called War on Terror, our least-popular president ever invariably fends off nattering nabobs of negativism with one of his own favorite mantras: “freedom’s on the march.”
October 26, 2007
At a conference of army leaders from 38 European nations organized by the chief of U.S. Army Europe in Heidelberg, Germany yesterday, United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates decried the commitment of European nations to winning the War on Terror.
October 20, 2007
Speaking on condition of anonymity, aides to unnamed officials at the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed recent upticks in measurable seismic activity from people spinning in their graves worldwide.
October 11, 2007
Both Digby and Glenn Greenwald beat me to the punch, but Dana Milbank was out Wednesday in The Washington Post with a little piece on Nancy Pelosi’s performance at a recent lunch with reporters in D.C. that shows clearly why, as David Byrne put it so well, “this is not my beautiful wife!”
October 3, 2007
Steven Stills wrote half a lifetime ago: “there’s battle lines being drawn.”
September 30, 2007
Once it became clear the Bush administration’s original, loudly trumpeted, and wildly over-hyped rationale for invading Iraq four and a half years ago was a total fabrication, the President himself and every other enabler and apologist for the idea that the United States ought to — indeed, is destined to — exercise hegemony over the entire planet — all — have relied on one, or both, of two arguments to explain the expense of lives and treasure, and excuse the rising instability and danger that have been the consequences of that ill-fated decision:
September 10, 2007
On January 15, 1968 the Jimi Hendrix Experience released its second album, Axis / Bold As Love, containing what would become the genre-defining psychedelic rock song, “If 6 Was 9.”
August 23, 2007
Have you heard the news ? The tide has turned in Iraq! Fourteen young Americans died there Wednesday, when their Black Hawk helicopter went down in a fireball of molten steel, rotors akimbo — but remember former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew’s prescient admonishment, and let not “nattering nabobs of negativism” bring you down.
August 14, 2007
Karl Rove gave President Bush his two week notice on Monday. After August 31, the liberal media, and the moonbat blogosphere, and the netroots won’t have him to kick around anymore.
July 31, 2007
Full Disclosure: I’d just like to get another post in the books before July is out, though not for any lack of things to note or discuss.