Thursday, September 21, 2006

Sam Harris is Nuts

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I mean, when James Dobson sounds more rational than you do , how irrational are you? "We are at war in this country with an enemy who w...

Robert McCloskey redux

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“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” Or...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Dodging the Bullet

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We may be spared the worst after all : Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will fili...

"Them thats got shall get

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Them thats not shall lose So the Bible said and it still is news" The Bush administration's faith-based initiative is reaching only...

Too true to be good

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The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away : Seeking a deal with Senate Republicans on the rules governing the interrogation of...

Of branches and logs and bonfires of vanities....

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Sam Harris has gone completely off the rails . Call it the curse of writing a best-seller; but his fame has gone to his head: You believe th...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Follow the Bouncing Non-Sequitur

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Res ipsa loquitor , as the lawyers say: "The sense outside of the U.S. is that the United States is responsible for many of the failure...

Speaking of the terms of debate

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The Senate bills would still gut things like habeas corpus (the right to be brought before a tribunal and charged publicly with a crime, and...

Change the terms of the debate

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And start here, because this will be all over the news today, simply because the Canadian government said it: A government commission on Mo...
Monday, September 18, 2006

What Keith Olbermann Said

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Well, here's where we are now, and it takes a former sportscaster to tell us the truth. Keith Olbermann on the President's press co...

Of Xenophobes and Texans

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This is almost a throwdown from Pastor Dan; at least, it stimulated me to look into this question. My personal experience with this extends...

Just to note

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one seldom sees it said this bluntly : Used boots fetch $3 and old salt-and-pepper shakers bring in a buck at a makeshift flea market along ...

He says that like it's a bad thing

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Although the Pope has now realized that terms like "evil" and "inhuman" are not universally recognized as the language o...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

Long Day's Journey Into Night

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Something too good to be true.... probably is : The Bush administration and three prominent Republican senators opposing its effort to codif...

John Yoo Speaks

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It's just too bad it didn't come sooner, so we could have better assessed his intellectual shortcomings. But this is an amusing argu...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

Does anyone miss New Orleans?

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NYT : As billions in housing aid begins to flow here in the next few weeks, most of it will go to homeowners, who have been appointed by cit...

Bottom looks like up

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Kind of hard to read this and not think: "New Orleans. Gulf Coast. FEMA." And also to wonder: "Have we hit bottom yet? ...
Friday, September 15, 2006

Of Houston and New Orleans and Katrina

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Yesterday Democracy Now! was in Houston, talking, of course, about Katrina: BRODERICK BAGERT: Well, the main issues we're dealing with ...

Just worth noting

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But this is how you call the Vice-President a liar: [LARRY] KING: Your reaction to Vice President Cheney's assertion that the criticism...

The God Delusion

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If ever a book was aptly named to reflect the personality of its author.... Richard Dawkins is trumpeted on the cover of his new book as ...
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