This has been said elsewhere but it bears repeating. From Balkinization: Our President– with his prevarications and euphemisms, like “alternative sets of procedures”– has been unwilling to speak the truth about what he has done in the past and what he wishes to keep doing in the future. He wants to be free of Congressional …
When I heard that former Texas Governor Ann Richards had died, I knew I’d find a good remembrance of her over at Off the Kuff. Charles has links to various obituaries and bloggers’ posts, along with a story I’d never heard before from Molly Ivins, which I’m going to quote in full because it’s so …
Following yesterday’s humongous lunch, it was light meal time last night. For years we’ve enjoyed microwaved burritos for lunch, but I’ve always felt annoyed that if you zap the things long enough to get the inside good and hot, the corners turn to rock. So when I saw these Chimichangas in the freezer case, I …
Last week I went to the dentist; today was Mom’s turn. The appointment was for 11:45, so we decided to get lunch afterwards. I can tell you that Jack in the Box’s Bacon Cheese Ciabatta burger is very very big.
Here’s the NYT editorial board, commenting on Bush’s speech last night: It?s hard to figure out how to build consensus when the men in charge embrace a series of myths. Vice President Dick Cheney suggested last weekend that the White House is even more delusional than Mr. Bush?s rhetoric suggests. The vice president volunteered to …
Five years ago today I woke up to a horror which had already (what with time zones) been going on for some five hours. Like most other people not living in the New York/Washington/Pennsylvania area, I watched it all unfold on television. I remember the disbelief I felt and the urge to hit back at …
Read this story from a former reporter about VJ Day. This is why people are up in arms about Disney/ABC’s insistence on showing a film about 9/11 which has been proven to be wrong on the facts. It’s incumbent upon us as citizens to get it right, and you can’t get it right if you’re …
Holy cow. The guy who was the Army’s logistics chief says Rumsfeld threatened to fire planners who wanted to discuss post-war strategy in Iraq: “The secretary of defense continued to push on us … that everything we write in our plan has to be the idea that we are going to go in, we’re going …
Oh, by the way, remember all those claims about Saddam and al-Qaeda being linked? Absolutely false. The disclosure undercuts continuing claims by the Bush administration that such ties existed, and that they provided evidence of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda. The Republican-controlled committee also sharply criticized the administration for its reliance on the Iraqi …
I’ve read twelve of the nineteen books I had on reserve. Four to go by the Monday due date. What a comedic writer Terry Pratchett is! Of the library bunch, I’ve read Equal Rites, Sourcery, Eric, Small Gods, Lords and Ladies, Men at Arms, Soul Music, Feet of Clay, Interesting Times, Hogfather, and Jingo. Still …