Books Sarah Palin Wanted Banned
Update & Correction: See Mary’s comment below, which links to this Snopes debunking of the story about Palin. This list, though, remains representative of the sort of cultural limits that the radical right would like to enforce; insofar as the vice presidential nominee is a radical Christianist, she subscribes to an ideology that is in [...]
The Campaign
I’ve given quite a bit of money to the Obama campaign this year & I’m likely to give more, but not until I see them go on the attack. I got an email this morning form David Plouffe (me & millions of other contributors) to the effect that the answer to Sarah Palin’s sneering attack [...]
Soap Opera
I have to admit that I’ve been as fascinated as everyone else by John McCain’s selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as his VP. Fascinated, but also offended. No, not because Palin’s daughter is pregnant, but because McCain showed such poor judgement in naming a lightweight ideologue like Palin. Country first, my ass: this was a [...]
Why?
Why isn’t the media wetting itself wondering who McCain’s VP will be? Obama’s VP choice had them in a sweat for days. How come they aren’t camped outside Joe Lieberman’s & Mitt Romney’s houses? I am praying that McCain will exhibit stupidity “of biblical proportions” & choose one of these two goobers.
It Was Only a Joke
That’s what the radical right always says when somebody actually calls them out. Classic bully behavior. But in any case, how fucking delusional can you be? These people have a pretty exalted view of their place in the world & their relationship to the divine; but then I knew that, I grew up with the [...]
The Facts about John McCain
Kathy G. produces the facts, with sources, about John McCain’s life. It is ironic, but not at all surpriosing, that the utterly phoney McCain has to attack the authenticity of a person who has actually had to work for a living.
Two Bad Wars
Going to war in Iraq was such an obviously bad choice I’m still amazed that some otherwise rational people supported it. The choice to go to war in Afghanistan was — to me, at least — more difficult & I initially supported it, with reservations. (Based mostly on my sense of the deep tarpit of [...]
Assassination
This is pretty clearly a political murder. The murderer was simply carrying the rhetoric of the hard right to its logical conclusion. This is John McCain’s & George Bush’s belligerent America. The killer’s derangement will be described in psychological terms, but it is a social & political derangement. [Link fixed.]
Justice Matters
Are justice & peace incompatible values? Certainly, they compete, but in terms of contemporary atrocities, justice seems pretty often to pave the way for peace. Aryeh Neier, one of the founders of Human Rights Watch, offers some recent examples. What, I wonder, would be the pragmatic effect of bringing George W. Bush & Dick Cheney [...]
An American Character
I read B.F. Skinner’s Walden Two when I was in high school & it chilled me to the bone. (Pretty sure I also read Naked Lunch that year.) It reminded me of my own fundamentalist milieu minus the religion. My step-father actually tried to use a Skinnerian device to educate me at one point. This [...]
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