I can’t look at this picture of the President from today’s Gray Lady without being struck by the utter disdain on his face. It’s deeply unflattering and plays right in to the right-wing narrative of Obama as an arrogant autocrat —… Continue Reading
It appears that a 53-year-old Texas man named Joseph A. Stack had some serious and perennial tax troubles and had come to greatly resent the government for pursuing him to pay back taxes (and interest and penalties). If that were the… Continue Reading
Divorced couples use their children as pawns in power plays against one another all the time. It’s despicable. Parents and adults of all sorts also believe that they have a religious duty to indoctrinate children into their weird religions, and… Continue Reading
Plenty of people, myself included, got upset when the Bush Administration reserved for itself the right to unilaterally engage in a warrantless wiretap. I thought it was an affront to the Constitution that the President, acting on his authority alone,… Continue Reading
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi uses military airplanes to shuttle her family around the country without even bothering to go with them or providing any substantial tissue of even political necessity. Millions of public dollars used to provide for… Continue Reading
So the word on the street is that the White House is looking for somewhere to have the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed other than lower Manhattan. I think that’s fine. The Constitution requires that the trial take place in… Continue Reading
For the record, this is not taking budget deficit reduction seriously.
San Francisco, 1981: Money quote: “It takes two hours at $5.00 per hour to get the newspaper, so the online newspaper isn’t going to be much competition for the twenty-cent version you can buy on the street.” That sentence seems… Continue Reading
Direct from the source: “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” said President Barack Obama. Well, he’s on his way to getting half that wish granted — right now it looks like he’s on… Continue Reading
I’ve little more to add to the Unreligious Right than is already there — giving a sixteen-year-old rape victim 101 lashes with a whip for the crime of becoming pregnant as a result of the rape, and acquitting the rapist… Continue Reading