Archive for September, 2006
I’m trying really hard not to post a venomous diatribe about how the world is ending over the whole “el presidente can torture whomever he likes” bill that passed yesterday, so here’s something with a slightly higher funny-to-scary ratio. I give you Senator Trent Lott, philosopher of the human condition: Why do Sunnis [ READ MORE ]
Remember that high-pitched squeal that was supposed to act as a “teenager repellant”, since people over 25 supposedly can’t hear it? Well, somebody made it into a dance-club song. Go ahead, click the link and have a listen. If you’re an old fart, you’ll hear a run-of-the mill throbbing electro-Euro-crap tune. But if you’re a [ READ MORE ]
What to say about the president’s 5-year anniversary speech? You could say that it was boring and uninspired (it was). You could get angry about his use of the anniversary to attempt yet another lame justification for Iraq. Me, I’m Pavlov’s dog; I respond to nearly everything Bush says the same way: first I [ READ MORE ]
I feel like relating a couple of much-needed pockets of reasonableness that I ran into this week. They’re so rare; one must treat them like precious gems. First: Rumsfeld delivered an appalling speech (the latest in a long-running series) in Salt Lake City recently, in which he let on that those who criticize the Bush [ READ MORE ]