Why Bush won't meet with Sheehan: "I've got a life to live."

You can live it outside the Oval Office then.

Oh, wait. You already do. On vacation.

Too bad Casey Sheehan doesn't have a life to live any longer.

Thanks, President Bush, for all your hard work and compassionate conservatism.

Also, I love how we've just found a chemical weapons facility created by the insurgents in Iraq. So, we went to war to rid Iraq of such weapons when they didn't exist, and all we've accomplished is starting a near-civil war and allowing insurgents in to create chemical weapons.

Great job, guys. Bravo.

I'm watching CNN right now and listening to Henry Kissinger replay Eisenhower's old "domino theory" -- only now it's in reference to Islamic extremism rather than communism ( Read more... )

Be sure to vote in this American Family Association (a religious-right group) online poll on whether or not intelligent design should be taught in schools.

The Texas Freedom Network has released it's report on the National Council on Bible Curriculum in ( Read more... )

I have really high hopes for some future fuller-participatory democracy in the United States. At the same time, I recognize the mass of everyday Americans to be much like the stereotype -- if not too busy to take part in their own governing, then too lazy ( Read more... )

No papers were stolen today.

Operation: Oh, you better run, motherfucker (OOYBRM)! Lessons Learned:

1. Do not write up after-action report while still high on adrenaline. You may accidentally come out looking anti-Semitic.
2. Do not wear jeans (esp. without a belt) on operations such as OOYBRM. (In this instance, my jeans were falling around my thighs as I chased a guy in a jogging ( Read more... )

So, for the last few weeks, my office's daily copies of The New York Times (and sometimes the copy of The Austin American-Statesman, too) have been being stolen in the morning. At first we just thought they weren't being delivered, but the circulation supervisor finally came around 5:50 one morning to make sure our paper was there and it was (thus ( Read more... )

I've been trying to figure out why Sixth Street was shut down in front of the Comptroller's Office this afternoon. The road -- or block -- closure ended up forcing me to detour to Tenth Street and take Guadalupe back down to Sixth to get to the office after lunch. I didn't see any HAZMAT teams in the area, so I doubt it was anything special, but I ( Read more... )