This article from the New York Times should dispense the myth that military officers are paragons of virtue and honesty. According to the Times, the Bush Administration and a battalion of retired officers conspired to perpetrate a major fraud on the American people. In this effort they were abetted by a lax and pliant mainstream [...]
Archive for April, 2008
General Conspiracy
Posted in Media, Politics on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Debate or debacle?
Posted in Media, Politics on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t get TV. By that I mean I don’t receive it (although it may well be true that I don’t GET IT either). I live in the country and do not receive any broadcasts over the airwaves, cable hasn’t reached us yet, and from what I’ve seen of satellite TV it is 400 channels [...]
My “VCR” Strategy for Iraq
Posted in Politics on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
General Petraeus has recommended a “pause” in the draw down of troops in Iraq, a plan supported by our sock puppet president. I believe that if we truly want success in Iraq we expand from “pause” to a full “VCR” Strategy:
“Fast Forward” ten years from now, when 15,000 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq [...]
The arrogance of the media on display again
Posted in Media, Politics on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Megan McArdle is a journalist for The Atlantic Monthly. She also apparently writes a blog. In a recent post, she defended the performance of the media from the criticism of Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald blasted the media for spending substantially much more time looking at trivial stories, such as Barack Obama’s bowling score than they did [...]
Governor Douglas disgraces Vermont’s heritage
Posted in Politics, Vermont on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The administration of Jim Douglas, the Republican Governor of the state of Vermont, is dropping its collective drawers and mooning Vermont’s historic heritage by significantly reducing the hours that four of our state historic sites are open. Read about it in the Rutland Herald here. I am sputtering mad at this callous disregard for Vermont’s [...]
Leadership 101
Posted in Politics on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Forty years ago Robert F. Kennedy, then candidate for the Democratic nomination to run for president, made this short, impromptu speech to his supporters in Indianapolis after learning of the assasination of Martin Luther King. This passionate, articulate call for calm and a peaceful response was made off the cuff. Imagine the president this man [...]
Another lying AG!
Posted in Media, Politics on April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Attorney General Michael Mukasey stood before an audience in San Francisco and lied. Here’s what he said, courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle:
The government “shouldn’t need a warrant when somebody picks up a phone in Iraq and calls the United States,” Mukasey said in a question-and-answer session after a speech to the Commonwealth [...]
