I just received email from John Kerry which said, in part: Monday, I shared with you my Brown University speech setting out what needs to be said and done at this critical moment for our country. Today, in that same spirit of clarity and conviction, I want to tell you
The police were inspecting bags at the 30th Avenue subway station in Astoria this morning. Little table set up off to one side of the turnstiles. Maybe this makes some people feel safe (particularly people who don't ride the subways), but it only makes me feel as if
FEMA chief Michael Brown is recalled to Washington and replaced by Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen as head of on-site disaster relief efforts in New Orleans. It's not enough, and it's too late, but it's something.
If there's any truth to the notion that either Hurricane Katrina or 9/11 were punishments visited upon America for her sins, then the sin in question was, in both cases, allowing a clueless, spineless bully like George W. Bush to become president. 2005. 2001. I wonder if
❦bobhowe calls my attention to an article in today's New York Times about a survey commissioned by a couple of Pew trusts which finds that "nearly two-thirds of Americans say that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in public schools." John C. Green, a senior fellow
A couple of weeks ago, █████ and I went to a taping of The Daily Show. Before the cameras rolled, Jon Stewart was taking questions from the studio audience and had been riffing on Robert Novak for a while. █████ whispered that I should ask a question about intelligent design, but I
Fuck you, you dissembling fuck. I heard you this morning on Morning Edition just as I was leaving for work, bloviating about how the reason the question of where our species came from is important is because if it was just random chance then there's no necessity for
A sobering little tale can be found here, relating to a Secret Service visit one ❦anniesj received as a result of a LiveJournal posting. It's sobering not because it shows the Secret Service is thorough about investigating threats to POTUS, but because it reminds us there are people
Over breakfast this morning, I was reading the October 18 New Yorker—"The Political Issue." A story by Philip Gourevitch about the first presidental debate, "Reality Check," sucked me in, and I had to share the closing paragraph: For Bush, to say that the world is
What a weekend █████ and I just had! We arrived back late last night from three days in beautiful Aiken, South Carolina. We were invited by our dear friend Shana, who lives here in the city and was going home for the annual Aiken Steeplechase, an afternoon of horseracing that is
Thanks to ❦pould, bringer of all things mischievous, for pointing out the Bush Speechmaker: http://www.lemonbovril.co.uk/bushspeech/ You can hear my own feeble attempt here. Yours will be far more clever than this. Totally Real Actual Speech! / George W. Bush0:00/0:001×
Hey, everybody pop over to my friend lightningrod's journal and pester him to write about the oral exams he recently took in Washington D.C. for the Foreign Service. I've heard it, and it's fascinating stuff. Let's get him to post it!
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