The Hindmost, a cowardly Puppeteer from Larry Niven’s Ringworld series Dickhead Cheney is at it again, criticizing President Obama’s response to the failed terrorist attempt to take down an airliner over the U.S. on Christmas Day. Seems that Darth isn’t happy that Obama is implicitly rejecting the Bush Administration‘s idiotic and counterproductive “war on terrorism” frame for something more rational …
President Obama accepting the Nobel Peace Prize My favorite line from Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech: Let us reach for the world that ought to be — that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls. One of the very few lines that got applause, as a lot the speech was a justification of his just war …
Geography is destiny, Napoleon is reported to have said. I began to appreciate that political truism early on, thanks to marathon games of Risk I played as a kid. According to Wikipedia, Risk was originally released in France in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde—The Conquest of the World. It was likely modeled on the period of history that historians …
Back to the future in Afghanistan Irony often has the most exquisite timing. Today President Obama announces a massive escalation of the war in Afghanistan, doubling the number of troops that Bush left behind. And next week he travels to Oslo to pick up his Nobel War Peace Prize. So, what did those three months of careful deliberation net us? …
GOP Diaper wetters: David “PP” Vitter, Tony “Depends” Blankley, R. Hudson “Incontinent” Limpboughtenpaidfor, Eric “WeWee” Cantor, John “Sissy-Boy Boehner, and weepy Mitch McConnell. Said GOP House Leader John Boehner yesterday: The Obama Administration’s irresponsible decision to prosecute the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in New York City puts the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and security …
I try to avoid The Larry King Show like the plague. The man seems incapable of asking, let alone pressing, a follow-up question to guests who cling to their talking points like a drowning man clings to a life preserver. However, as the clip above show, sometimes truth finds a way to penetrate King’s infotainment containment system. The issue was …
