Archive for June, 2007
« Previous EntriesLater on we can try a postmodernist impeachment agenda
Saturday, June 30th, 2007What makes the idea of minimalist impeachment interesting to me is the whole idea of message focus. This has been a consistent problem for the left with any push for, well, anything - for example, perfectly good protests against the Iraq War get bogged down with extra baggage about preventing war with Iran and bringing […]
Back, Sort Of
Saturday, June 30th, 2007I got back Thursday evening a now fully oriented NYU freshman. Maybe a little too oriented, given that I’ve still got a couple of months to go before I actually move in there. To an extent, it feels like I didn’t entirely come back from orientation.
I’ve been thinking about shifting this blog to covering more […]
PSA
Monday, June 25th, 2007I’m going to be at college orientation from tomorrow morning to Thursday afternoon, so there will be no posting during that time.
In the meantime, here’s a very important public service announcement from Tom Morello.
SCOTUS Rules Bong Hits Not Legitimate Form of Prayer
Monday, June 25th, 2007What makes this ruling particularly troublesome is precisely what the Post chooses to omit from the article - that the banner in question was not actually ever on school grounds.
This is a disturbing precedent for student rights. The Supreme Court is basically saying that public schools can punish kids for exercising their right to free […]
Gotcha!
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007The thing about Rahm Emanuel is that he’s essentially a campaigner before he’s anything else. So any legislation that comes out of this guy exists primarily for the political advantage it lends to the Democrats.
So you get snarky “gotcha” legislation from him, like this gem.
Obviously there’s an important point to be made about Cheney’s insistence […]
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Mitt Romney has a War on Terror PowerPoint? That’s absolutely genius.
This is really a perfect example of how confused our priorities are in terms of who’s “serious” on national security and who isn’t. If you were against the war from the start and you think we need to withdraw, you’re not serious. If you throw […]
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
I’m a pretty big fan of protest music, but I’ll freely admit that like any music genre, it has its fair share of shit. The way you can tell good protest music from bad, I’ve discovered, is that bad protest music has a couple common attributes:
-Generally bad protest music is made by people who aren’t […]
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
I’m not going to pretend to understand a lot of the anti-Nader animosity that still exists on the left. Sure he was wrong when he said there wasn’t a jot of difference between the Democratic and Republican parties, but considering how things are going in the Democratic primary right now, it’s hard not to admit […]
Bumblebee Puppy Rulez!!
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Mustard Faced Dancing Guy was funny like eight months ago. Maybe.
Take Back America
Thursday, June 21st, 2007In the aftermath of the Take Back America conference, John Nichols sees promise in the desperate GOP attacks on those candidates who participated.
The problem with that logic is that it generally doesn’t lead to anything. The GOP, in good times or bad, will always go after Democrats for any reason, regardless of whether or not […]