Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Round ‘em up.
So is it a joke, or do we really intend to do these things, when the next Democratic president takes office — one not directly tied to the far-right terrorist groups themselves, as George W. Bush has been, but one willing to use the new American tools of terrorism against all terrorists, not [...]

Since I think it is safe to assume that torture will now be accompanied by legality and legitimacy I was thinking about a new commercial for the Army.

Father and son are sitting in the porch swing while crickets chirp musically in the background. The father turns to his crisply uniformed son and says,

“Son, as soon [...]

I’m glad I got that off my chest.

Billmon has a really good post on global warming today. It makes for interesting reading even for those like me who believe in global warming and just do not care.
 Go check it out. If any of you climatologists want to jump in and tell me that the views of James Lovelock are not to be [...]

Of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are “what might have been.”
It sickened me to the very depths of my being when I read this
he looked over at his mother who was sobbing and holding his 8-week-old daughter while sitting next to his girlfriend.
There is nothing that breaks my heart like squandered [...]

I’ll admit I have not read all of these articles but supposedly they all have a common theme.
There is no doubt in my mind that the world is sick of the GOP. But when even the GOP is sick of the GOP you know the problems are legion.
Our current crop has made a mockery of [...]

Clicky?

Ok, a front page piece in the Chattanooga TFP today (yesterday when this will be posted) gives a surprisingly fair reading of Corker’s attacks on Ford as a liberal, and Ford’s actual position. Great. But, deep inside, where the column is continued on page A6, is a quote from Ford that has rather [...]

Another angle on the religion thing.

… but the declassified documents (PDF) make it look like a conspiracy fact. Via Reality Me, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other high-level kooks in the government really planned - and recommended their plan to JFK and McNamara - to fake a pretext for war with Cuba, including ideas for faking terrorists attacks against [...]