Future Lawyers Do The Right Thing
Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech...
Category: Politics
Letterman vs. O’Reilly
Bill O’Reilly was on Letterman the other day and Letterman let him have it! “60% of what you say is crap” Wonderful! More (including must-watc...
President Bush’s Unchecked Presidential Power
Bruce Schneier has a wonderful, fact-filled blog entry about President Bush’s Unchecked Presidential Power. It was published today in the Minneapolis Star...
Fabulous Christmas Rant
Here is a FABULOUS rant about the Right Wingers who are all on a tear about the “War on Christmas“. (Mainly John Gibson, Bill O’Reilly and FOX...
Quote of the day
Seen on a bumpersticker yesterday: “You measure Democracy by the freedom it give its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” Abby Hof...
God told Bush to go to war
Oh my god. Here we go. From the BBC Press Release about an upcoming TV show: President George W. Bush told Palestinian ministers that God had told him to invade...
It’s Banned Books Week!
And the American Library Association has lots of ways to help you celebrate! Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week...
The Grim Meathook Future
JWZ has been tagging a bunch of his blog entries with grim meathook future, and here is the definition. It’s grim, but it sounds pretty much like whatR...
FEMA, Now and Then
There was a very interesting editorial in the Minneapols Star and Tribune a couple of days ago comparing FEMA during President Clinton’s time in the White...
Okay, here we go…
It’s finally time to talk about New Orleans and what our government is NOT doing. First off, here is the headline from a New York Times article: White Hou...