Category: Miscellany

  • Worst… president… ever

    The Daily Breeze quotes veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas (whose recently exchange with Ari Fleischer about unelected leaders made the rounds of the blogosphere) on the quality of the current presiding executive: She seemed to have sympathy and affection for everyone but George W. Bush, a man who she said is rising on a…

  • When is a quota not

    When is a quota not a quota?. Mark Kleiman unpacks the Big Lie in the way the right uses the poll-tested shibboleth word “quota” to oppose any and all affirmative action programs.

  • Left-wing conservatives and right-wing liberals

    The political spectrum here in the U.S. has become increasingly muddled over the years. Conservatives adopted the lingo and some of the verities of liberal progressive thought and more recently the rump of the left has toyed with attempting to coopt the aspects of right-wing thought it finds least unpalatable. We’ve got a darling of…

  • Slip of the tongue?. Soundbite

    Slip of the tongue?. Soundbite at the top of the Lehrer show today quotes W. warning Iraqi line officers from obeying commands to use biological or chemical weapons again us (just as last time they were warned and they apparently refrained from doing so — whether we poisoned our own troops with experimental prophylaxis is…

  • Irish Catholics have long memories.

    Irish Catholics have long memories. I’m sure an unnamed political advisor from the previous Bush administration is regretting his loose lips many years ago when he confessed to Maureen Dowd that his boss was surprised to find a person with her background covering the White House for the New York Times. The op-ed (deadly serious,…

  • North Korea: What did they know and when did they know it?

    Joshua Marshall has been burning up the wires lately at his Talking Points Memo blog site, holding the administration’s feet to the fire on their utterly failed policies toward North Korea. TPM’s recent post on the subject goes to the heart of the question of how long the Bush folks have been sitting on certain…