Category: Edgewise

  • RIP Hunter S. Thompson

    desiunion has posted what he believes was HST’s last Rolling Stone article up on dailykos.

  • Secrets and lies

    I’m starting to get a queasy feeling about Jeff “so-called” Gannon‘s access to sensitive information in the White House. Is Jim-Jeff Guckert-Gannon gonna be Monica Lewinsky this time around? Whose ox is gored now, whose cover has been blown?

  • Shamefully Truncated Abstinence Programs

    The Bush administration is now funding a sexual abstinence program as part of its contribution to fighting AIDS in Africa. Abstinence is also a mainstay of its efforts against both youth pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases within the US. So that is consistent. But there are rumors that backsliders in the administration want to restrict…

  • Chris Nolan has had enough

    The best blog commentary I’ve read this year is Oh. Him. by Chris Nolan at Politics from Left to Right. I don’t want to quote it or summarize. Just go read it. It’s absolutely essential. I’m serious. I just (finally) put Nolan’s weblog at the top of the syndicated headlines on the Edgewise home page.…

  • Republicans against torture

    I’ve been wondering when we’d hear an actual conservative take a principled position against torture instead of the subject-changing, excuse-making, or moral relativism we’ve mostly seen from the right on this issue. Sebastian Holsclaw, who described himself as a conservative blogger with a mostly liberal audience (he used to be a regular commentator on a…

  • Proverbs for Paranoids, 3

    Hit this quote today in Pynchon’s amazing Gravity’s Rainbow that summed up our current political situation way too perfectly: Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. Which leads back to the query my brain just can’t shake: Prince Charles and his flowering…