Is it bad that this abolutely delights me? This month, as in every December since he took office, President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy “holiday season.” Many people are thrilled to get a White House Christmas card, no matter what [...]
South Africa is a truly remarkable country. Despite a long history of apartheid and general racial strife in the most ethnically diverse nation on the African continent, South Africa has the largest economy and the most modern infrastructure in the region. While we’ve seen the results of American supported reactionary criminal justice in Iraq, South [...]
This hasn’t been picked up yet, but a press release has been distributed… Apparently our fair city; the city of brotherly love, the city of the cheeseteak, the city of ‘youse guys’ has been identified as the number one election fraud ‘hot spot’ in America. Even if the Sixers, Eagles, Flyers and Phillies can’t ascend [...]
Since 9/11 civil rights advocates have bemoaned the trampling of our Constitution and Bill of Rights that this administration has undertaken. Under George Bush, we’ve seen disdain for the First Amendment through censorship invoked by the FCC and limitations on the right of free assembly. The Fourth Amendment is desecrated by the Patriot Act, a [...]
some thoughts on reading
Hunter, over at DailyKos, has found a great post about the whole silliness that’s going on in Kansas from The American Street. I’ve only briefly visited modern Kansas, but the Kansas of my imagination is a fiercely exotic ocean, a warm and savage sea richer than any place still extant. Try mentioning the magic word [...]
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