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So I was idly paging through CNN.com and came across this headline:
July 2, 2008
Poll shows Americans cool to Michelle Obama
Posted: 10:30 AM ET
Oh brother…aside from the fact that a candidate’s spouse should be a virtual non-issue and so should everybody’s opinion of him or her–
The new Associated Press-Yahoo poll shows 30 percent of Americans view […]

At least not so much lately in America. Of course, cynics would say that, by merely parroting the propaganda of the powerful, they are doing PRECISELY their job, because that’s what they’re kept around for in the first place. And, well, I guess the cynics would probably be right. But appearances of speaking truth to […]

…or maybe it was CHUCK NORRIS!!
Apparently though, I am not the only person who has a secret addiction to Chuck Norris jokes. What is the draw..? I totally can’t say. The shameless hilarity, maybe…the unmitigated cheeze factor…it may forever remain a mystery…
I haven’t said much (okay, I haven’t said anything) about the […]

If you’re outside of Canada, you might not be hearing much these days about the case of the Toronto 18, or the Toronto 17, or the Toronto 11 (the number of suspects charged keeps dwindling as the case against them collapses). They are 15 men, mostly in their early 20s, and five kids, all Muslim, […]

Hooray! The extremely popular White House wielded its unstoppable positive momentum again this week:
A White House plan to broaden the National Security Agency’s wiretapping powers won a key procedural victory in the Senate on Thursday, as backers defeated a more restrictive plan by Senate Democrats that would have imposed more court oversight on government […]

I want you to close your eyes and imagine, if you will, that you’re in the following situation…
…Okay, wait, open your eyes, because either you can read with your eyes closed or you’ve stopped reading this post all of a sudden; neither makes me comfortable.
*Anyway,* pretend you’re a doddering Republican presidential hopeful falling […]

Lookin’ forward to seeing it in it’s proper musical form
Chasity rings and modesty fetishes aren’t the only way to bring back the ’50s - don’t forget about the scaremongering over the tawdry evils associated with the devil’s weed.
Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research […]

Hey, you, in Arkansas. How come you talk funny? Where did that strange foreign language you warble out come from? Why don’t you just use English like a normal person?
These, apparently, were the sorts of thoughts running through the mind of Tony Snow yesterday, because his response to Senator Clinton’s […]

From the AP, a truly baffling attempt at analyzing the Mess O’ Potamia: Only Iraqis can win the war. With an intriguing headline like that, I had to read it. I was brimming with questions: Is the AP’s military writer promoting a U.S. defeat? Which Iraqis, exactly, are capable of winning (and who are we […]

Recently, George Bush has been making the type of decisions that a real grown-up president would make. And it only took six years, (*sniff*) they grow up so fast.
I’m actually a bit tapped on outrage now, so it was with perfectly numbed feelings that I read this half-hearted attempt by the Washington Post to […]

Color me utterly unsurprised:
The Bush administration has postponed plans to offer public details of its charges of Iranian meddling inside Iraq amid internal divisions over the strength of the evidence, U.S. officials said.
Back in the heady days of 2003, when Rumsfeld said we know where the weapons are, the Bush folks almost certainly counted on […]

Advertising is as American as apple pie made from the blood of infidels. We are the land of product placement. Our biggest sporting event of the year is equally known for its commercials. And, by God, we’ve got Man Laws.
So it makes sense that the president, facing staunch opposition in and out […]