You may have just blown your party's chances at reclaiming the White House in November.  Way to go, since what America really really needs right now is either Hillary I-Refuse-To-Apologize-For-My-Warmongering-Iraq Vote Clinton or John I-Don't-Mind-If-We're-In-Iraq-For-100-Years McCain.

Love,

Seth

Hillary Clinton is still up in the polls there?  Are they frickin' crazy?  I can't imagine any sane Democrat who actually wants their party to win in November thinking, "Yeah, at this point, I'm gonna go ahead and stay aboard Starship Billary as it GOES DOWN IN FLAMES."

Real smart, guys.  I've been saying the same thing for a year: the G.O.P. has ( Read more... )

Until two weeks ago, I had never heard of Zeitgeist, The Movie, an anonymously created internet film released earlier this year. My wife viewed the movie from its official site and then invited me to watch it with her a few days later. Purporting to be a film that reveals long-concealed truths about religion, politics, 9/11, central banking, and ( Read more... )

"We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness ( Read more... )

Riff!

Yeah!

from The Nation:
Speaking of extremists who target the U.S, Paul said, "They attack us because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We've been in the Middle East [for years]. I think (Ronald) Reagan was right. We don't understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. Right now, we're building an embassy in Iraq that ( Read more... )

Interests:   2: narcissism, ignis fatuus.  [Modify yours]

Stupidly, I believe change can come
from these Cheka decrees,
edicts betrayed
by battered door frames
and soap scum.
All the rules I’ve made,
all the laws I’ve broken,
and everything I’ve left undone.
All the love I’ve left undone.

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

1922 - 2007