Category: Politics
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Life in These United States
The two big stories on Yahoo news today: The Chinese executive in charge of a company that distributed lead-tainted toys to the US has killed himself. Whereas Karl Rove just resigned. Just sayin’.
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Oh yeah? Your MOM compromised national security for political retribution!
I hope everybody had a great fourth of July! I did. It’s a great opportunity to blow stuff up in celebration of what is ostensibly a democracy! “Ostensibly,” of course, because our president has apparently given up even trying to make it seem like there’s a functional system of checks and balances still in place.…
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I can’t stop it I don’t know how it works!
I watched Thank You For Smoking a few weeks ago, but I was so let down by the ending I didn’t know what to make of it. Surprisingly, the whole Don Imus scandal puts it into perspective. Thank You For Smoking plays out as a well-produced, well-performed, cleverly-written story that seems to be building up…
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Your papers, please
Apparently, it is possible to be too ignorant of the state’s rights vs. federal rights issue, and too complacent in the idea of a Democratic majority in congress magically making everything better. I was totally ignorant of the RealID Act and that it’d progressed so far. Ars Technica has an article about Real ID and…
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Breaking News: Presidential Hopeful is a SMOKER who went to SCHOOL!
My favorite news story in recent memory is the repeated inept attempts at a smear campaign against Barack Obama. I didn’t make a big deal about it, because I assumed everybody would get a good laugh and then move on. Apparently I was once again being naive, giving the state of American politics too much…
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Do you hear what I hear?
Spending time at my parents’ house means seeing hours and hours of CNN, and this week that means every-fifteen-minute updates on Virginia representative Virgil Goode’s discomfort over his fellow congressman’s religion. In particular, how tougher immigration policies are necessary to keep people like Keith Ellison from being born and raised in America and taking advantage…
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All we are saying is give Satan a chance
No doubt this story about a woman fined for hanging a peace-sign wreath is going to be making the rounds a lot, but really, it’s just astounding. I’m not sure what’s most alarming about it: That the neighbors didn’t recognize it as a peace sign. But then, I have to remember that not everybody lives…
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Democracy Inaction
Today I exercised the right of every American citizen to have an uninformed voice in the course of action of our government. I’m always left feeling guilty and ignorant every voting period, because of my policy of spending 30 minutes reading the for & against arguments about the propositions, then going to the poll and…
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Our President Has Stones
Say what you will about George W Bush, the guy’s got balls. After invoking the memory of the brave dead, he described our enemies: We have learned that they are evil and kill without mercy, but not without purpose. We have learned that they form a global network of extremists who are driven by a…