As of this writing, it’s looking more and more like a major hurricane will hit New Orleans for the second time in four years. I’ve already read a couple of sites speculating about the “delicious irony” of seeing a split-screen GOP convention, with hurricane-ravaged footage on one side of the screen. I’m sorry, but this [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Gustav
Posted in News & Current Events on August 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Offensive Line-Crossing
Posted in Bloggin, Church & State, Culture, General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Privacy on August 31, 2008 | 28 Comments »
The Sarah Palin nomination is so ludicrous it’s hard to grasp. People are still trying to get a handle on what it means, and what the relevant aspects of her tissue-thin background are. There’s been a lot of good commentary so far, including her relatively minor political experience, all of it in (literally) bush-league environs, [...]
A Tasteful Choice for VP
Posted in General, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Satire on August 31, 2008 | Comments Off
Philosoraptor nails it: John McCain has revealed that his apparent choice of Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running-mate was, as many observers predicted, a carefully-staged hoax. “Yeah, right,” McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said of Palin, laughing with reporters. “As if! What do we look like, a bunch of complete lackwits? You guys will [...]
The Pre-Crime of Pre-Protesting
Posted in General, Legal Issues, Politics on August 31, 2008 | 9 Comments »
One of our nice Republican friends needs to explain to me why this is not the action of a police state: Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of [...]
Just for Dvorkin
Posted in General on August 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dvorkin complains about the “excess of religiosity” at the Democratic Convention. This is just for you, David:
www.nounverbpow.com
It's Palin
Posted in Politics on August 29, 2008 | 30 Comments »
So after criticizing Obama’s inexperience, McCain picks someone with even less experience. And after criticizing Obama for “snubbing” Hillary (who, he tells us, got “millions of votes”), he “snubs” Romney and Huckabee, who also got millions of votes. Apparently, the McCain campaign doesn’t own a mirror… UPDATE: I think this is a pretty fair analysis [...]
The Speech
Posted in General, Politics on August 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
That was a remarkable speech. Obama, deliberately by all appearances, turned down some of the flowing rhetoric and attacked McCain and the Republicans for their failures of the last eight years. He made a fullthroated defense of progressivism and full-throated attack on conservatism as it has been practied in the last eight years. He went [...]
McCain's Solution to Uninsured Crisis:
Posted in General, Politics on August 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wow: John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn [...]
A Step Closer to the Promised Land
Posted in General, Politics, Race on August 27, 2008 | Comments Off
My father grew up in a country where African Americans were, by law, forced into separate and unequal lives. They were lynched, cheated, driven from homes, kept from jobs, denied their rights, and abused by te justice system. They lived as refugees in their own nation. Today, an African American was nominated for the Presidency [...]
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