Wheels keep on spinning round…

Senior Nazi Hermann Göring, at the time of his trial in Nuremberg:
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in [...]

Looking for hope in a hopeless world

Put aside your Obama-fatigue for a few minutes and read this:
http://www.esquire.com/features/barack-obama-0608#
A long excerpt (bold emphasis is mine):
Someone will have to measure the wreckage. Someone will have to walk through the ruins. Someone will have to count the cost.
More than anything else, the presidential election ongoing is — or, as a right, ought to be — [...]

I Evoke Brow 31: Screw You, Roman Numerals!

Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut
I love coming across passages in books that are wonderfully prescient. The copyright on this novel is 1990 but look at this passage:
“What makes so many Americans proud of their ignorance? They act as though their ignorance somehow made them charming.”
This selection is preceded by a character referring to Yale as “Plantation [...]

The Amazing Bone

Co-worker Alice dropped off a children’s book on my desk today as a joke: The Amazing Bone by William Steig. As you can see, Alice and I agree that penis jokes are funny. I just leafed through it and came upon a nice passage:
Pearl stared at a small bone. “You talk?” she [...]

“It is shameful to politicize this disaster” -every Republican apologist for the last 3 weeks

Digby
Jackasses.
Though I live in a liberal oasis (Athens) in the desert of conservatism that is Georgia, I work in Watkinsville. Just 15 minutes to the south, it’s supposedly one of the most conservative (and wealthy) counties in the state.
Today, two (Republican) co-workers were discussing the media slant and blaming of everyone involved (my paraphrase of [...]

Mahr or Less

From Bill Mahr’s open letter to the President, which is making it’s way around the internet:

“You’ve performed so poorly I’m surprised that you
haven’t given yourself a medal.”

Hee hee hee.

Chimpeach!

It seems like Bush should have been impeached five times over by now. It time to start saying it: “Worst…President…Ever.” Go read Bob Harris’s excellent run-down: Bush and Katrina: so many outrages, so little time

So Funny I’m Crying…

…or maybe so infuriating that I’m laughing. I should have known The Onion would trump everyone with their Katrina coverage:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld praised the phone support, but noted that it would take months to transfer any equipment from Iraq to New Orleans, saying, “You fight a national disaster with the equipment you have.”
Much [...]