perspicuously … just for the page title that comes up in your browser. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/obama-bowing-to-the-world/ Just for the record, where I come from, bowing can be a sign of respect just as much as a sign of obsequious bootlicking. Bowing to women, for instance, is no humiliation to the bower. And humility is a virtue which adorns […]
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16-Apr-10Nature v. Profit.
14-Apr-10This is the summer where I’ll be experimenting with getting much closer to nature – growing and gathering much more of my own food, and in general finding ways to do things without any monetary intermediary. I’m still very far from this ideal – dandelion salads and blueberry and apple picking has been the extent […]
Radical Incoherence.
09-Apr-10Sullivan linked to a video featuring a former U.S. Speaker of the House – who admittedly never got any reputation for integrity – call Obama “the most radical president in American history.” In the cafe where I’m writing in small-town America, there’s a little memento I often look at. It’s a “Gasoline Ration Card,” issued […]
Life Without Principle.
23-Mar-10Caught my eye: Yesterday Newt Gingrich outlined the Republican strategy going forward, saying that the Democrats “will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for forty years” by signing civil rights into law. Leave aside the deep cynicism of this view of racial equality: Gingrich was expressing the Republican belief […]
Holland.
04-Mar-10There really is quite a bit of interesting stuff going on in Holland (surprisingly enough). The party of Geert Wilders, campaigning against further Muslim immigration to Holland – and, honestly, there is room for a discussion of immigration, especially as the economic reasons for it are now suspect, as capital go to cheap labor now […]
Oh My… Stone Shamu???
04-Mar-10Memory cannot really handle just how crazy the American Family Association – a huge organization, by the way, with 200 radio stations and all kinds of clout – really is. You need to be reminded again and again. One of their writers, Bryan Fischer, accused Seaworld of negligence by keeping a killer whale with a […]
Principle.
02-Mar-10Sullivan’s website alerted me to the astonishing fact that John Adams was the lawyer for the British soldiers who fired on the crowd in the Boston Massacre; and not only did he do it in the interest of preserving the men’s right to a fair trial, he got six acquitted and two were given reduced […]
We just can’t let lawyers do this to the Constitution. Where’s Jay Sekulow? He’s apparently busy complaining about the fact that the White House is involved in the legislative process – in violation of Article 2 of the Constitution, which gives legislative powers to the Congress. About as fruitful as complaining that constituents are writing […]
Colin Powell.
23-Feb-10Is there any way Mr. Obama can hire this guy in some capacity? How about press secretary? So sensible, such auctoritas. He should just keep on talking. A friend of mine with “national security connections” said that the whole national security apparatus was refusing to serve Obama and was refusing to provide intelligence: the CIA, […]
Talk about Brains!
27-Apr-10wrathfully If you’ve never read a piece by Glenn Greenwald, treat yourself. This guy sounds like a terrible person to have a dinner conversation with – time to cut down on those unsubstantiated assertions! – but invaluable as a journalist and blogger. Terribly smart and frighteningly informed. And he exudes the integrity of crisp thinking. In […]