- Facebook Bios: Truth or Fiction? – http://nyti.ms/dyj8V8 #
- Does It Matter if Obama Loses the Pundits? – http://nyti.ms/cPBRO2 #
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This will eeventually become a post about debate, but before that I will be a brief tirade against Dick Cheney (a.k.a. the Penguin). It shouldn’t come as a surprise to the few readers of this blog that I find Cheney’s defense of “enhanced interrogation techniques” morally bankrupt. To date, I had largely dismissed Cheney’s Orwellian attempt to classify waterboarding as an “enhancement” on normal interrogation techniques, not thinking it worthy of a response on this blog. It was bad enough that Cheney is now calling for full disclosure of memoranda on his administration’s authorization of torture after he spent eight years insisting that as Vice President he enjoyed both the privilege of keeping executive secrets but that since the Vice President presides over the Senate that he was… Continue reading
Finally, Obama’s first hundred days in office are over. I was getting tired of all the talk of the “first hundred days.” I’m sure this Sunday all the morning talk shows will touch on this artificial milestone and various pundits will reveal their scorecards. Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Bill O’Reilly and other right wing members of the the so-called “liberal media” will mark Obama’s first hundred days in office a complete failure. Echoing our former vice-president, I’m sure we’ll here that Obama has made us less safe from terrorism, and in typical hypocritical form, we’ll be told that Obama’s stimulus package, despite the fact that the outgoing Bush administration had called for this package, marked… Continue reading
I know I still need to blog on the afternoon sessions from yesterday’s YouthCamp, but we’ve found a bar that has a fat yet very acrobatic and entertaining cat. The cat has kept us entertained well so late that blogging has become difficult. Last night I lost bet and had to buy a round of drinks after reacting with disbelief that there was something as stupid sounding as “Acrobatic Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Acrobatic Rock ‘n’ Roll, I am sorry to say, inexplicably readlly does exist; it seems like a completely moronic activity. It does look pretty dangerous, though, so perhaps the people stupid enough to do this sort of thing will… Continue reading |
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