McSame demonstrates he no longer needs his wife to access the internets Frank Rich begins his New York Times Sunday column yesterday by noting what a favor Barack Obama did for his presidential rival, John McSame, by traveling overseas this weekend: THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the …
Finding the Invisible WE HAVE TALKED about the startle of everyday life, how it is not the reality, but the dream life that you see. For when you are plunged into the sea of sensuous existence, your true life leaves you like smoke. It evaporates into the stuff of dreams; it is hard to hold yourself to yourself. Your past …
A Charge To Keep, by W.H.D. Koerner The above painting was proudly displayed in Governor George Bush‘s office in Austin, Texas. As Crooks and Liars describes it: In 1995, he issued a memo to his Texas staff, describing the painting, by W.H.D. Koerner in 1916, which he kept on his office wall. Bush told his aides: The…painting is based upon …
Phil Gramm, a once overly proud and supposedly well-educated Republican who succumbed to the corruption of the evil influence of power and politics, was sent down the McCain Mountain of Straight Talk Slag late Friday night, slinking off into the violent storm brewing on the “time horizon.” A “time horizon” is a supposedly fixed point in the future at which …
“A Head of Our Times” —Terry Kruger Yesterday, Barack Obama appeared with Indiana Senator (and veep prospect) Birch Bayh at a forum at Purdue University where he continued to articulate his national security vision. As The Indiana Star reported it: … Obama argued that the Bush administration has not stayed “one step ahead of the threats of the 21st century.” …
Findings of the US Climate Change Science Program While the vast amount of media coverage of Obama’s speech on national security today will focus on Iraq and Afghanistan, I would note what Obama himself says is the greatest single security threat to the US (and the world): This immediate danger is eclipsed only by the long-term threat from climate change, …
The New Joeker cover is catching shit from the Rebuplican Right; we think you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. “Satire, like the razor keen, is best when scarcely felt or seen.” —Terry Kruger, after unknown IF YOU LOOKED CAREFULLY, you could probably spot the first satirical drawing by a human being in one of the rooms at Lascaux; no doubt some …
