Sunday, March 16, 2008

Don't blame you, don't blame me, blame that feller behind the tree!

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So, the New York Times asks: nine experts on military and foreign affairs to reflect on their attitudes in the spring of 2003 and to comment...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

I've got you under my skin

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This is really starting to bother me. Last night, Barack Obama felt compelled to go on Keith Olbermann's show, no doubt to catch his you...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Sillier and sillier

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I was going to leave this in the comments, below. But D2 left a link that's worth noting, a blogpost on the subject here . That led me t...

The Silly Season

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Or: Here We Go Again. It's the long campaign season. It's the intertubes. It's the divisive partisanship that's destroying t...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Just don't call it racism....

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For some reason, I feel compelled to pull a few things together regarding Ferraro, Clinton, and Obama. I stared this when I found this repo...

Don't Cry for Admiral Fallon

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My mistake was starting here : By all accounts, the points of contention between Fallon and Bush administration officials centered on three ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

It's getting more and more absurd

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Lost in the fog of Eliot Spitzer's sexual preferences is the story of Rep. Steve King and his opinion of Barack Obama's candidacy. I...

We hold these truths to be self-evident

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A small thought experiment, based on this section of the Constution ( Article II, Section 1 ): Before he enter on the execution of his offic...
Saturday, March 08, 2008

All Along the Watchtower

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“We have no higher responsibility than stopping terrorist attacks.” --George W. Bush, in his statement announcing a veto of a bill that woul...
Friday, March 07, 2008

Fourth Sunday of Lent-2008

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1 Samuel 16:1-13 16:1 The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fi...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

Nobody ever listens to me....

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Because the Texas delegate "count" won't be known until August; really. NPR got close; MSNBC is missing the point entirely. ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Project Agora

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Yes, I confess, I watched the last few episodes of "Project Runway," season 4. And I come away convinced judges of fashion and I ...

The Power of Nightmares

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I'd never heard of this documentary, and yet it turns out there's a great deal of information on the web about it (no surprise, the...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

God shed His grace on thee.....

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When I think about Presidential signing statements; Gitmo; the suspension of habeas corpus; immunity for telecommunications coporations; wir...

Streams in the Desert

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Nature, Annie Dillard tells us, is profligate. Consider the sunflower seed, and how true this is; not only true, but necessary. One seed wil...