Like most nations, the United States continues to conduct espionage against other nations, and we use clandestine spies employed by the CIA to get the information we think we need to keep us safe.
Hugh Francis Redmond was just such a fellow.
You can’t fix Teh Crazy.
The numerous nutboxes that localized majorities of teh stoopid have elected to various public offices are now desperately trying to save the vestiges of the rotting corpse of conservatism, by aligning themselves with the ignorant extremist agitators of the lunatic fringe media. Teh Limpbot. Teh Hannity. Teh Coultergristle. Teh O’Reilly. Teh SavageWeiner. Teh Rest.
My worst nightmare: Reincarnation is real and I wake up as a Republican. [Image credit here.]
Buried under a foot and a half of snow will get you wishing and hoping for the warm sunny days of the future. Especially a future with Sarah Palin and some other wingnut candidate of what’s left of the GOP, running against Barack Obama. Not only will it ensure his second term, but the full exploration of her support of …
Films that make it around the world can become important cultural benchmarks for shared ideas and experiences. The Matrix is such a film. A venturesome science-fiction/mythical story pitting man against machine against new age nihilism against slow-motion bullets, with a dash of time transcendence thrown in for special effects crunchy goodness. Without putting a value judgment on it as a film or a philosophy, it can still serve as a planet-wide meme for the purveyors of and partakers in world culture, even a rudimentary philosophy of reality.
At least some of the outrage that courses through the American psyche today derives from recognition of our shredded values of justice, and whether we can still claim we are a nation of law when our leaders suffer no consequences for their crimes.
