I know they generally don’t give a rat’s ass what the rest of the world thinks of us, but couldn’t they at least pretend? From a fire station to a Madrid bar brimming with bullfighting paraphernalia, Spaniards said Friday they were offended by a senior Pentagon official’s remark that bullfighting shows they are a brave [...]
Archive for March 19th, 2004
Can't the Bush Administration At Least Try?
Posted in Politics on March 19, 2004 | 6 Comments »
If You Read This Post, You Hate America
Posted in Politics on March 19, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Saletan nails it. Its too good and too long to excerpt, so go read it. One of the reasons that Bush is so held in contempt is tactics like these. No one disagrees with his methods, in his little world, they disagree with his goals. No one is simply incorrect about policy, they are actively [...]
Dean Does it Right
Posted in Politics on March 19, 2004 | 5 Comments »
Unlike Nader, Jackson in the 80′s and even Wellstone in the nineties, Dean is going about building an actual progressive organization with reach In speeches in Seattle and San Francisco, Dean said his new group, Democracy for America, will recruit progressives to run for office at all levels, give money to them, and use the [...]
Patriotism in Bush Land
Posted in Politics on March 19, 2004 | Comments Off
This is a pretty good definition of it: But the bigger point is this: in the Bush vision, it was never legitimate to challenge any piece of the administration’s policy on Iraq. Before the war, it was your patriotic duty to trust the president’s assertions about the case for war. Once we went in and [...]
Bringing Back Fallout Study
Posted in Politics on March 19, 2004 | Comments Off
I am a little bit surprised that this ever went away. the federal government is reviving a scientific art that was lost after the cold war: fallout analysis. The goal, officials and weapons experts both inside and outside the government say, is to figure out quickly who exploded such a bomb and where the nuclear [...]
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