Let the victory dances begin. Let ululations ring out across the land, from sea to shining sea.
War is good and great and glorious.
And let us all hail our conquering emperor, George the Bush, who has these inspiring words for us at this pivotal moment in our history as one nation […]
John Edwards is in:
We need to ask Americans to be willing to be patriotic about something beyond war. We need to ask America to be willing to conserve, to take the steps necessary to get off our addiction to oil, to create a new energy economy in this country.
It’s critical to America being able to […]
Last month, we took a look at Christmas shopping predictions, noting that while the consensus was for 3.1% growth in same-store sales, no one was bothering to mention that 2006 inflation is projected to be 3.3%.
Master Card is reporting that same-store sales growth came in at exactly 3% — 0.3% less than the rate of […]
It’s completely passe and a bit annoying to hear people bitching every year about how Christmas has become so commercialized etc. That’s not to say that I’m so done hearing Christmas songs, but it’s been like this since before any of us was born, and it will of course be this way long after […]
I hate to say “I told you so,” but “I told you so:”
Some prescription drug plans did not inform Medicare beneficiaries of impending changes in their costs and benefits, as they were required to do, Bush administration officials and Congressional aides said Tuesday.
This could be a serious omission in a program where beneficiaries need accurate […]
In case you missed this last week, Paul Krugman broke out of his 800 word-per-column cage and wrote in Rolling Stone about a subject near and dear to 1115, wealth inequality:
In the end, the effects of our growing economic inequality go far beyond dollars and cents. This, ultimately, is the most pressing question we face […]
Two Americans, Shane Schmidt and Chuck Shepard, both ex-soldiers who worked for a private security contractor in Iraq, blew the whistle on a former supervisor who apparently decided to go on a murderous rampage just as he was finishing up his “tour of duty” and returning home.
The two were working together on July 8, 2006, […]
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Frankly, I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that my iTunes library contains exactly zero tracks by the recently departed James Brown. That’s not to say that I don’t own music by the man. Compilation CDs sit on the racks and dusty old LPs rest in taped up boxes in the […]
There is no record that any calls were placed recently from the White House to 911 to deal with a fire emergency. But maybe they managed to put it out themselves. Or maybe all records of the 911 call and fire have been classified, and all low-level flunkeys with knowledge thereof have been transferred […]
Do we who are lucky enough to be alive in this second half of the first decade of the 21st century actually have the privilege of witnessing an old-fashioned, Soviet-style purge of the generals in the land of the brave and the home of the free? Another of those dangerous hypothetical questions, no doubt. […]
