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Barack Obama For President

It’s true that endorsements are a dime a dozen these days. I’m neither a celebrity nor a newspaper op-ed page editor (at least not any more). No one reads this blog– hardly anyone knows it’s here despite my advertising it on my Myspace pages and in the sig lines of …

Entitlement

The pronouncement of a man who can use his connections in order to duck having to serve in the Texas National Guard calling any war “romantic” is (to borrow yet again from Spider Robinson) as fucking stupid as a basketball bat. The immediate response is to wonder what kind of …

Oh yeah, huh, I have a life too

I’ve been hanging out at Panera Bread quite a lot lately, in part because the aforementioned Chicken Pomodoro on Sesame Semolina Panini bread is to die for, in part because they offer free soda refills, and in part because they have free wi-fi. I find that when I am out …

Memo To Comedy Central

regarding Lil’ Bush… Depicting George W Bush as a petulant child is not humorous. It would be humorous if more people didn’t already get that. As it is, it’s just stating the obvious. You guys failed with That’s My Bush! a few years ago and I won’t be in the …

While America sleeps

When I was a kid, we only had four or maybe five sources for news of any variety– the Big Three television networks, maybe PBS too (don’t recall whether they were doing news then), and the local paper (morning and afternoon edition). Now, we have the internet, and a dizzying …

How convenient

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070312/bs_nm/halliburton_mideast_listing_dc Say, you don’t suppose Halliburton has anything to hide, do you? Anything they would really like to keep the U S Government from examining? Anything that might land them in a whole mess of hot water once The Bush and Cheney Show leave office and Congress finds it a …

Will slander for food

Thanks to an auto-replace program they’re using at one of the internet fora I frequent, I tried, but could not, respond to Ann Coulter’s slur of John Edwards by slurring her in turn as a media whore. That she is one should be self-evident to anyone left of the great …