Numerous readers seem to assume that my earlier post about the silly, sarcastic use of the word “serious” was a response to Glenn Greenwald’s post about Joe Lieberman, a right-wing nutcase minister named John Hagee and, somehow, me. It wasn’t. I read Greenwald on occasion, but not today. I was actually responding to this sort [...]
Despite my admittedly snarktastic coverage of this week’s YouTube debate, I was mildly intrigued by the prospect of the GOP version. Would they get videos from troops in Iraq? Maybe a pregnant woman asking about abortion? There would be opportunities for theater and for real people, if also for more hillbillies and singing snowmen. Whatevs. [...]
You can tell that the Bush Administration has no problem with torture because they keep sending Gonzales back to the Hill. The fact that he hasn’t already admitted that he’s bin Laden’s driver, a 9/11 planner, and the one who told Bush about Santa Claus is, truly, a testament to his fortitude. Think Progress has [...]
Some epithets are really quite brilliant: wanker, for example, with its intimations of onanistic futility, is one of the best. (But then, the Brits, who invented the term, are so much more elegant than we are when it comes to the creative use of the mother tongue.) Others, involving defecation and copulation, can be effective [...]
I have a piece in the coming print issue of Time on the hard-to-meet expectations being heaped by fretful Republicans on Fred Thompson’s I’ll-get-in-someday campaign for the GOP nomination. The piece is already posted here. It says volumes about the state of the party, and about the level of discontent among GOP voters with the [...]
This seems to me a significant statement from two prominent conservatives on the Bush Administration’s stubborn, foolish and disgraceful efforts to continue to evade the Geneva Convention. Update: Those commenters–you know who you are–who wonder why it’s taken me “so long” to get on the torture and Gonzalez cases might want to read this column, [...]
