May 2, 2006
They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Don’t they? And there’s a picture of Stephen Colbert being watched by George W. Bush as the former gave his remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner in the nation’s capital this past Saturday, but more on that, later.
April 24, 2006
One wouldn’t know it by reading any of America’s major dailies or by watching the people soon-to-be-replaced by Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News, but impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush have begun.
April 20, 2006
In Las Vegas, American culture’s monument to itself, when a new dealer takes the shoe or a new croupier the stick, it’s time for gamblers to check their bets. Will the mojo be upset? Is juju about to reign? It’s never an easy moment for those with their money on the line, and the house always has its own inscrutable plan for retaining the favorable odds.
April 6, 2006
As the President of the United States might put it, the Story of the Day was how Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) apologized for slapping the Capitol Police officer who detained her for attempting to enter a federal facility without passing through a metal detector or presenting identification as a member of Congress.
April 4, 2006
In a move curious for its relative lack of surprise, the Republican Party took Tom DeLay out to a lonely spot beyond K Street today, and put him out of our misery.
March 19, 2006
On the 3rd Anniversary of the United States’ commencement of hostilities in Iraq, the government’s top three executives, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked a watching world today to suspend belief in reality and accept the notion that War is Peace.
February 28, 2006
Seven peace activists were arrested and charged with a federal misdemeanor for demonstrating without a permit in front of the White House yesterday.
February 22, 2006
I have had a hard time making sense of the cartoon scandal, in which people have died and the Danes have felt — so far — at least some economic blowback. Who wants the challenge of seeing one’s prophet depicted in absurd or degrading ways?
February 13, 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man in Texas over the weekend, giving fresh and all-too-real meaning to the term loose cannon, when he sprayed a quail hunting companion with bird shot in a hunting accident on Saturday afternoon.
February 6, 2006
The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings today into the Bush Administration’s domestic terrorist abatement initiative, with Chairman Arlen Specter telling Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in no uncertain terms he’d been called to account for the government’s refusal to abide by laws defining a “forceful and blanket prohibition against any electronic surveillance without a court order.”