Passions Over Torch Run Hot
The fourth and fifth stops on a planned 85,000 mile relay bearing the Olympic flame from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece to the site of this year’s Summer Games in Bejing, China turned ugly over the weekend, as thousands of protesters in London and Paris disrupted the procession, drawing attention to China’s reputation for human […]
The Sound of Breaking Glass
America loves nothing more than a sex scandal.
A collective peek up the panty-free skirt of a Former Teen Idol or a glimpse of nipple through the diaphanous gown of This Year’s Model beats the Comeback Victory, the Shaggy Dog, and the Horatio Alger story every time for getting the attention of the caffeine-fueled ADHD citizens […]
Pass the Fork, Please.
Today the U.S. Supreme Court declined an opportunity for a peek at the man behind the curtain, refusing to certify for appeal a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of numerous Muslim lawyers, journalists and other American citizens, who argued the existence of the National Security Agency’s warrantless eavesdropping program rendered […]
Who Loves Ya, Baby?
The true origins of celebrating the notion of romantic love on February 14 are not well documented, though the exchange of elaborate, handmade gifts between paramours was well established by the middle of the eighteenth century in England, and began to really take off in the United States once Esther Howland (herself now considered something […]
The Winter of Our Discontent
…what is genuine, familiar, and identifiable is the way Americans beat the game: the land-taking before the airport is built, the quick bucks, the plagiarism, the abuse of trust, the near theft, which, if it succeeds, can be glossed over — these are the guilts with which Ethan will have to live in his coming […]
The Way Republicans Roll
The very rich are different from you and me.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yeah, they have more money.
– Ernest Hemmingway
Linda Chavez and her family may not be “very rich” in the sense Fitzgerald intended, but they certainly have more money than you and me, and Ken Silverstein at the Washington Babylon blog on the Harper’s Magazine website […]
In The Belly Of The Whale
‘Tis the season for reflection, retrospection, and reminiscing, I suppose, and worth therefore, considering: “how did we get here?”
How did we get to the place where lawbreaking at the highest levels of government will not divert our attention from everyday trauma, tragedy, and spectacle?
By what road did we arrive at a juncture pouring […]
The Trouble With Congress
Both Digby and Glenn Greenwald beat me to the punch, but Dana Milbank was out Wednesday in The Washington Post with a little piece on Nancy Pelosi’s performance at a recent lunch with reporters in D.C. that shows clearly why, as David Byrne put it so well, “this is not my beautiful wife!”
Does anyone remember […]
Freedom’s On The March?
Once it became clear the Bush administration’s original, loudly trumpeted, and wildly over-hyped rationale for invading Iraq four and a half years ago was a total fabrication, the President himself and every other enabler and apologist for the idea that the United States ought to — indeed, is destined to — exercise hegemony over […]
As The Turd Turns
Karl Rove gave President Bush his two week notice on Monday. After August 31, the liberal media, and the moonbat blogosphere, and the netroots won’t have him to kick around anymore.
His slipping out the side-door seems anticlimactic after all the hubbub he raised over the past six and a half years, when reasonable, clear-thinking […]