Caption contest, 1/8
Photo 1 (via Reuters): Photo 2 (also via Reuters): What did Obama say to crack up George H. W. Bush?
View ArticleThe last hurrah
Can you tell I’m resisting the urge obligation to navel-gaze about the meaning of Obama’s evolving economic plan? Fortunately, I’ve stalled long enough for something else to turn up (via a Reuters...
View ArticleCaption contest, 1/21
Via email, but I’m told it was in a Washington Post slideshow from the inauguration yesterday.
View ArticleRemembering Bush
Statue built in Tikrit in honor of GW Bush, or rather, Bush’s shoe thrower.
View ArticleIraq’s shoe-thrower looks for an “informal” loophole
The New York Times reports today on “the first day of the trial of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush at a news conference in Baghdad two months ago”: As the journalist,...
View ArticleTargeting civilians
The key justification for the crackdown on the Palestinians in the Gaza and the West Bank spouted by the pro-Israeli camp is that the Palestinians are terrorists, because their suicide bombings and...
View ArticleCollective Perspective & Republican Amnesia
The Repugs, riding the wave of public indignation, are having a field day with the AIG executive retention bonus crap. And why shouldn’t they? It was a Dem legislature that stripped out the provision...
View ArticleSame tired strategy
If you thought that by electing Obama we’d get out of the Shrubyian quagmires any sooner, you’d be sadly mistaken. It looks like Obama is following Shrubya’s brokeass ‘strategy,’ i.e. engagements...
View ArticleSame tired premise
I did some further reflection on the ‘same tired strategy’ issue, and I think the crux of the problem is ‘same tired premise.’ Although Obama renamed the ‘War on Terror’ to the Global Contingency...
View ArticleCaption contest(s), 1/6
Forgotten, but not yet gone… Photo 1 (via Reuters): Photo 2 (also via Reuters):
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