Category: long story short

Right here — a brutal brutal brutal editing job in Bush’s state of the union (one year back, sounds like to me). Well worth your time.

The father was seen as doing nothing to turn around a sluggish economy, and for that, he lost his job. The son learned a hard lesson and now no one can say he’s been idle. Tax cut after tax cut. Spending program after spending program. And we all have the $500 billion dollar receipt to…

On Sunday I’m running to be a delegate to the Democratic convention for Howard Dean. If we win 15% or more of the votes in the ninth congressional district, at least some of the delegates from our slate will go the convention and be able to press for the Dean message that has united and…

Reading Andrew Bayer is Dreaming of China: Edwards Or Clark?, I posted a comment that I like enough to reprint here, with one small addition in an alternate version: We’ll know soon enough. I agree with Philip. Kerry’s joementum will be unstoppable unless something changes the dominant media narrative. This means someone has to attack…

One of Bob Dole’s many yeeeagh moments in his long and cranky career was his surly reference to “Democrat wars” back around 1976, I think it was. (Yes, if anybody earned the right to resent the politicians who sent him to war, it is Bob Dole.) Well, we finally have had a purely Republican war.…

This morning I made the coffee as usual and was about to get the oatmeal started when I thought I heard whispering from inside the refrigerator. I put down the pot and it stopped. Then it started again. I could distinctly hear a voice speaking in French. How strange! I went to the fridge and…