Glenzilla reminds me today why I am not a member of the Democratic Party in his lookback at 2008 and Congress’ execrable record on civil liberties (including then Senator Obama‘s flip flop vote to support telecom immunity after pledging to oppose it). In his post titled “Another brutal year for liberty”, Glenn documents the assaults on the Constitution that the …
Arundhati Roy I’ve always enjoyed hearing Indian activist Arundhati Roy‘s critique of the Bush Administration‘s so-called war on terror in particular, and her analysis of US imperialism and globalization in general. Now that the blowback from predatory corporatist feudalism is shifting to South Asia, she is particularly well-positioned to comment and make sense of it all. Case in point: her …
Well. It’s what she does up there, now isn’t it. * * (Photo credit— unknown)
THE WHITE DOG HOUSE — The annual revelation that a little black scottie dog runs the White House was again met with shock and anger by too few normal human beings. “Barney,” aka “Bushmaster,” was again portrayed as the driving force behind the White House Christmas celebration by a cloying gaggle of the Bush family, gathered around the fireplace.
HANNITY AND OMAR FAUX — Bumtious blowhard Sean Hannity left Fox Chairman Roger Ailes‘ office Friday with his rodent tail lodged firmly between his legs after having been told he would be accepting a new liberal co-anchor replacement for milquetoast Alan Colmes. The replacement, Omar Mohammad Rafsanjani, a virtually unknown natural born American, got his start in the small farm …
All stupidity aside for now, our “distinctive values” are, of course, rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition; they inform all the morals and ethics that attend our decision making as individuals, and collectively as the will of the people. But is it the job of the Government to teach Americans morals, ethics, and values, as this collective mass of various biological tissue claims? or are we responsible as individuals? as Republican racists insist?
