September, 2006
Torture
From the Washington Post (really!): PRESIDENT BUSH rarely visits Congress. So it was a measure of his painfully skewed priorities that Mr. Bush made the unaccustomed trip yesterday to seek legislative permission for the CIA to make people disappear into secret prisons and have information extracted from them by means he dare not describe publicly. [...]
Kerry ready to take on Swift Boat Veterans
True. I can’t help but wonder if mightn’t have been better to take on the Swift Boaters during the campaign, actually before people voted in 2004. Rather than waiting two years. But of course I’m not a professional politician.
New-style patriarchy remarkably like old-style patriarchy
Salon has an interesting article about a new batshit-crazy Christian cult in Seattle, Mars Hill, which, despite the tattoos of its members and Snoop Doggy Dog patter of its pastor, is the same as just about every other fundamentalist Christian cult: a troupe of beta males following an alpha male with all the females bullied [...]
Four flavors of godbagism
According to a new study released by Baylor University, Americans — who are already the most god-sick people in the world, after the Philippines and Vanuatu — actually worship four distinct versions of the Great Godbag in the Sky. Here are the four gods, as defined in the Baylor study (the numbers indicate the percent [...]
Help me find the veil
From the Washington Post: Vice President Cheney offered a veiled attack yesterday on critics of the administration’s Iraq policy, saying the domestic debate over the war is emboldening adversaries who believe they can undermine the resolve of the American people. Are you ready for the veiled attack? Here we go: “Suggestions, for example, that we [...]
The 9-11 Hijackers
The ones who used 9-11 to hijack the country, that is. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, were unspeakably vile. What is even more vile (and I use the phrase deliberately: more vile) is the way the thugs running our country have exploited those attacks to their own craven political ends. It will surely [...]
Rumsfeld forbade planning for post-invasion Iraq
In an interview yesterday in the Hampton Roads Daily Press, General Mark Scheid explained that he and other Army planners were not allowed to prepare for the post-invasion occupation of Iraq. (Scheid is the commander of the Fort Eustis army base, which — for any stalkers out there obsessively trying to determine my real identity [...]
Talking to the base in code
Remember during the debates when Bush started talking about Dred Scott, and none of us in the normal world knew what the fuck was going on? And it turned out that the Dred Scott decision was code for abortion? I’m wondering if something like that is going on again with these Hitler references. The White [...]
British leftists reminded that Tories still suck
For the past two days this groovy image of Tony Blair has been glowing in my Google news feed, courtesy of Earthtimes. I don’t usually comment on news illustrations, but I’m weirdly fascinated by the artistic choices here. It’s like Blair on acid, or rather a vision of Blair by someone on acid. I feel [...]
Poll: Does Bush know that most people think he’s a complete fuckup?
My imaginary conversation with Torture President last night while reading my Google News feed: TP: If we cut and run in Iraq, it could become an Islamic caliphate! VS: Yeah, asswipe, only because you invaded the fucking country! TP: We rescued the people from Saddam Hussein and shut down the raping rooms. VS: Which you [...]
