"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 4th, 2005
The Mighty Middle – Time for a Congressional Take Over Mike Reynolds gets a strong AMEN from the choir on his post about what ought to be the peoples’ response to massive incompetence shown, more often than not, by the Bush administration. Dubya has already been given one pass too many by the American people. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 3rd, 2005
Lawyers, Guns and Money: Failure by Design Failure by Design Robert Farely over at Lawyers, Guns and Money nails it: The Republicans have managed a nifty trick over the last twenty-five years. They have worked ceaselessly to make government less effective, while at the same time deriving political benefit from inadequate government. The Republican attack [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 3rd, 2005
Katrina’s Assault on Washington – New York Times One thing is certain: if President Bush and his Republican Congressional leaders want to deal responsibly with a historic disaster of this scale, they must finally try the path of honestly shared national sacrifice. If they respond by passing a few emergency measures and then falling back [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 3rd, 2005
For the next month I’ll be working in the Philippines. I’ve been watching coverage of the mess in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast from a Hotel in Manila on CNN and BBC. People dying in the Superdome, bodies floating in the water, uncontrolled fires burning and the total inadequacy of the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Sep 1st, 2005
This is a column for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, “I’m sorry, I’m just not interested in politics,”
Date: 03/29/2006