…sometimes, the good guys win one. Nothing I enjoy more than watching right-wing pomposity and righteousness popped like a soap bubble. The right enjoys tweaking the left, too, and they’ve enjoyed themselves immensely in that regard the past few years. The difference is, of course, that to tweak the left, the right lies, and to [...]
Goddammit, wake the hell up! Look at what Shrub is doing! The fox is guarding the godddamned henhouse! Again! How many Ken Lays and Halliburtons, deregulation nightmares in energy and banking, budget killing tax cuts for the super-rich and unnecessary and unwanted wars, do we need, to know that Shrub is a liar and a [...]
I’m forming an anti-Libertarian thesis. So far, I have written down the axioms of my argument, and am working them over in my mind to find the flaws. 1. There are some commons that cannot be effectively privatized. 2. The act of exploiting or diminishing a commons is an act of creating private wealth, while [...]
I said I’d post some Mona Art, and here it is. Most of this is a couple months old, because I’ve slacked off about taking pictures of her stuff lately. But for three years old, we’re pretty impressed with her. She’s quite the little artist. Mona’s favorite medium is Magna-Doodle, and here she is with [...]
So my ISP went down in the blackout, so email and the blog were down for a little over a day. Which was sort of annoying, but hey, Massachusetts isn’t on the Lake Erie Circuit, I had AC and cable television. On the whole, things have been fine. But hey, I have to say something [...]
The good news is that The Episcopal Church has elected its first openly gay bishop, Rev. Robinson of New Hampshire. The bad news is that conservative forces within the church, and within the Anglican Church, are in a tizzy of epic proportions. I normally don’t care about the inner workings of religious institutions, but the [...]
Another article that just makes me shake my head. How is it that the world permits leaders to lie with such impunity?
Here are Bush’s Top 40 Lies About War & Terrorism. Given lists of its nature, it has a few items that are rather generously included, or padded a bit, or items that have been retracted, but still, it’s a powerful collection. It’s mostly spot on, from what I can see (which is admittedly the worm’s [...]
