If I Had A Hammer
The Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, Tom Delay (R-TX) announced today he will return to his home state to face charges of conspiracy to violate election finance laws, which he promptly denounced as baseless.
Mr. Delay, who has withstood — by his own admission — a decade’s worth of allegations of corruption and […]
Lovely Rita
Like many Americans, I’m sure, I sat riveted this evening to the news of Hurricane Rita, another Category 4 weather event bearing 145 MPH winds and possible 20 foot storm surges, churning through the Gulf of Mexico, taking aim on the beleagured Gulf Coast.
Millions of people from Panama City, Florida to […]
Cry Me A River
George W. Bush, for the first time in his Presidency, accepted responsibility yesterday for the failings of the Federal government.
Sort of.
While not exactly striking the tone of Harry Truman’s “The Buck Stops Here” motto, Mr. Bush admitted — a full fortnight after the fact — the Federal response to the devastation wrought by […]
Insult To Injury
As floodwaters begin to recede from New Orleans, the bloated, rotting corpses of thousands of Hurricane Katrina’s most obvious victims are not the only ghastly elements of the disaster surfacing. For any who care, nay, dare to look, the callousness, megalomania, and utter incompetence of the Bush Administration has also shown itself in all […]
Blame It On Cain
It’s been a rather impressive millennium on the natural disaster front, wouldn’t you say?
Major earthquakes in Gujarat, India (2001) and Iran (2003) killed over 40,000 people, and in December 2004, the strongest earthquake anywhere in the world in over 40 years, a 9.0 temblor beneath the Indian Ocean, spawned massive tidal waves that devastated coastal […]