Archive for April, 2008
Penis theft panic hits city..
That isn’t my headline. Reuters gets to take the bow for it (even if they’re short a period). If you can resist reading the story, you’re a better man that I, Gunga Din. One of the punchlines: “How do you know if you haven’t gone home and tried it?” Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on [...]
Republicans 937, Reality 0
Why is it that when Republicans collide with reality, reality never ever wins? The latest example: Rep. John Duncan, from the great state of Tennessee, at yesterday’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the effectiveness of government-sponsored abstinence-only programs. Scientists and experts showed up to explain how well these programs work: Experts [...]
Condi Rice, David Mulford and Diplomacy With India
We seem to think we have a divine right to tell other countries how to conduct their affairs. For some reason, they don’t always seem to appreciate being told what to do: A day after the Bush administration urged India to step up pressure on Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on his coming visit to New [...]
Unconscionable Stupidity
The issue was painfully simple. So simple that even a befuddled 71 year-old man, who frequently gets confused about who’s fighting whom in Iraq, and who’s aiding and abetting whom, couldn’t possibly fail to understand it. Or couldn’t possibly hope to pretend that he hadn’t understood it. But John McCain has done the impossible before, [...]
Fiscal Responsibility And International Equity
This not only caught my attention, but got me thinking: The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to [...]
Inflatable Burrito
When I’m in downtown San Francisco, my lunch of choice is a Burrito Mexicano at Tlaloc Sabor Mexicano. It’s pretty insane as far as burritos go, featuring nopales (cactus) as well as queso fresco and green tomatillo salsa. Add in some of their Infierno salsa which is basically crushed habañero peppers, and you have one [...]
Let Them Just Vote Present, And Get It Over With
There are still 300 or so superdelegates who remain uncommitted. And I imagine most people would tend to agree with this assessment: Anybody who says past this point that this is good for the party or good for the nominee is a fool,” said (Jim) Jordan, the Democratic strategist, who is not affiliated with either [...]
Contradicting The Commander-in-Chief
Pretty early into al-Maliki’s Basra folly — which the Bushmen and their enablers, of course, are still trumpeting as a great success (because that’s what they do) — it became clear that the ground realities did not uniquely comport with the propaganda spin from Bush and his merry band of Bushies. Dana Perino — who [...]
Not a Recession? Oh, No, No No!
Pennsylvania voters, I’m sorry to report, are not exactly listening to their Commander-in-Chief. Or if they are listening, they’re not buying the snake oil he’s selling, not when it comes to the economy. First, the Right Honorable George W. Bush, doing what he does best (hint: it’s not telling the truth): First of all, I [...]
What’s the Matter With Pennsylvania?
Todd at MyDD has two posts up about reactions to the result in Pennsylvania: 1: Since Pennsylvania was called for Hillary Clinton 3 hours ago she has raised $2.5 million, 80% of which is from new donors. Voters do not want this to be over. 2: Seriously, at what point are these guys going to [...]