Tim Grieve in this morning's Salon War Room: What Colbert did to the president and the press corps is news: He didn't shoot anybody Saturday night at the Hinckley Hilton, but he laid them out in just about every other way imaginable. It was as an
Stephen Colbert has balls of steel. He not only roasted the president to cinders at the White House Correspondents' Association banquet while the man sat stone-faced scant yards away, but he did it without losing much composure in front of an audience almost pathologically unwilling to laugh. Watching
I began thinking about global warming again today, sparked by a posting by Christopher Bigelow—or rather, by a couple of the complacent jackasses who responded to the post. (Sorry if they're friends of yours, Chris.) While I think it's nice that Time did finally get
It makes me sick to my stomach to read the words of America's brilliant and articulate founding fathers and to contemplate the treatises our newest King George would write were he ever to take up quill and ink for more than declaring war on feckless dictatorships, signing away
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Staggering news from Utah (as reported in the New York Times): In a defeat for critics of Darwin, the Utah House of Representatives on Monday voted down a bill intended to challenge the theory of evolution in high school science classes. [full article] Actually, not so staggering if you'
Apropos of my recent post about the silly "natural family" resolution adopted by the city council of Kanab, UT, I have news of a new web site: http://www.whatsupwithkanab.com Check it out, click around, and sign their petition if you feel like it.
The city council of Kanab, Utah, has unanimously endorsed a non-binding "Natural Family Resolution" that promotes the claustrophobic values of '50s America. You know, that nice women-belong-in-the-kitchen morality that had grown across the nation like kudzu on a railway trestle, smothering everything
Happy President's Day (2004) from Loudon Wainwright III. If wishes were fishes...
Tonight, a sad and unprecedented event. Owing to the annual SFWA cocktail party in Manhattan, I will miss a CD Mix of the Month Club meeting for the first time. My sorrow is boundless, kids, but I'm afraid the sci-fi club comes first. However, thanks to the
Hendrik Hertzberg's "Talk of the Town" piece on Harriet Miers is well worth reading in full. It concludes: Sinking Miers's nomination would give Democrats the satisfaction of dealing Bush a defeat while at the same time striking a blow against the intellectual degradation of
█████ and I, like many of you, are listening to the president nominate his White House counsel, who has never served as a judge, to the Supreme Court, and we are feeling angry and nauseated.
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