Archive for June, 2007
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Friday, June 15th, 2007Because this pretty accurately describes the mood I’m in:
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Does anyone really expect this to amount to much? Every single time the administration gets hit by a scandal too big to ignore, they launch one of these hilarious little “internal investigations.” It’s like letting the defendant pick the prosecuting attorney and really what it generally amounts to is a ploy to take the heat […]
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Jerome Armstrong hits one of the things that annoys me the most about the Obama campaign right on the head. That is to say, he goes after this myth of the movement.
The thing about Obama is that he seems to be trying to replicate the genuine “movement” phenomenon of the Dean ‘04 campaign and, more […]
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Via Fark, this article stops just short of suggesting something that I’ve suspected ever since I first watched The Corporation.
The thesis of the documentary was that the modern corporation, if treated as a human being with human psychology, shows all of the signs of a classic textbook sociopath. If you buy that, it seems natural […]
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
In today’s Post, Schumer seems absolutely certain that Lieberman will never switch parties.
Despite the feisty rhetoric and his defection on Gonzales, Senate Democratic leaders are confident that Lieberman will not cross the aisle to formally join Republicans, leaving his erstwhile party’s majority status intact. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign […]
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
I like most of what Kagro X is saying here, but I’m not quite sure if I like how he’s phrasing the argument - that is to say, by accepting the premise that moderation is inherently good all the time while rejecting Joe Klein’s definition of moderation.
We need to take a serious look at what […]
Best Ever AV Club Article?
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Perhaps not. But as an avid fan of obscure pop culture trash, I found the AV Club’s first annual “Absolute Best” issue a handy resource on things like best cinematic reasons to move to Canada.
On that note, I wish that they had included a runner-up for that title that did more to showcase some great […]
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
As most of you probably already know, Senator Lieberman has been getting more difficult to live with recently, between his saber-rattling at Iran and his vote against cloture for the no-confidence Gonzales vote. Interestingly, his explanation for why he voted against cloture makes no sense at all:
You catch that? Technically speaking, Lieberman actually voted to […]
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the nuclear option
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Josh Marshall hits on what I’ve always thought of as a delightful quirk of the Republican minority. Their system goes like this:
1. When Republicans are in the majority, an emasculated Democratic minority uses some sort of parliamentary trick to prevent a particularly heinous bill from passing.
2. Republicans denounce that trick as undemocratic, say the Democrats […]
Tomorrow
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Tomorrow is my last day of classes in high school, which is probably a bigger deal than it seems. Right now I’m having a hard time caring that much. A lot of that probably has to do with the fact that Senior Supper, Graduation, Project Graduation, the Blue Prints Dinner and all that good stuff […]
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