A life at the end of History
Posted in Politics on 3 November 2008 at 11:23
Race and slavery are America’s original sin. The election of Obama would be, beyond question, one of the noblest gestures of historical redemption that Americans have ever been called upon to make. — Martin Kettle
America is standing yet again at the crossroads. The nation did so at its beginning, during the Civil War, and during [...]
Posted in Politics on 29 October 2008 at 10:57
Last night’s Daily Show (4:10 in) featured a montage of Sarah Palin’s recent rallies, in which she refers to the friends of Joe the Plumber.
Speaking to supporters as if they were five-year-olds, Sarah the Paleo sounded like the twee host of a kiddie show. And the supporters cheered as if they were delighted toddlers. [...]
Posted in Politics on 16 October 2008 at 10:31
Well, folks, October 29 is the 79th anniversary of the crash of ‘29. Today there are similarities galore, with the months-long roller coaster ups and downs of greed followed by fear preceding the deadly date.
Surely, it can’t happen again?
Then, it took a Democrat to get the country out of the financial profligacy of previous Repuglycan [...]
Posted in Politics on 3 October 2008 at 16:12
Bill Maher is right: Most Americans can’t be trusted because they’re too dumb. Just look at Fox News. Everyone else thought Biden’s substance beat Palin’s fluff but, last time I checked, the text-ins on Fox had Sarah ahead 86 per cent to 12. And the little room of undecided inbreeds on hand to assess the [...]
Posted in Politics on 13 September 2008 at 11:56
All things of value are defenceless. — Thomas Pynchon
Did someone say America is a warrior nation? Surely they meant war-mongering nation. The last American warrior was probably crept up on and shot to death by a righteous born-yesterday Christian. The soldiers going to Iraq, Afghanistan and, if Bush and Palin have their way, Russia and [...]
Posted in Politics on 8 September 2008 at 15:18
Resembling, as she does, one of those hopped up zombies featured in George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, or Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later, Sarah Palin is out to shove those here come the injuns, circle the wagons values of fear and righteousness down the world’s throat.
Yep, with the addition of this square-jawed, gingham-wrapped, [...]
Posted in Politics on 5 September 2008 at 12:16
Move over Family Guy, Umeruhca’s got what it really wants: a sitcom based on the family values of genital erasure (except for the production of fast faith Christians), chuckleheaded creationism, nationalistic hubris, anti-intellectualism, and guns for one and all.
Alaska’s pistol packin’ mama, Sarah “Annie Oakley” Palin’s address to the Repuglycan convention was a winner on [...]
Posted in Politics on 31 August 2008 at 13:25
Courtesy Dan Wasserman, Boston Globe
You have to wonder how Umeruhca got to be the greatest nation in the world with this kind of thinking. McCain, infirm at 72, could easily croak during his presidency, leaving in charge a woman no one has ever heard of. Worse, he’s tacked Sarah Palin on to his ticket in [...]