OK so Sarah Palin, aka Annie Oakley, comes out and delivers an eloquent assault on Barack Obama for his lack of experience (and when it comes to lack of experience she’s certainly familiar with the condition) and she does it with wit and eloquence (though the speech was written before she was even selected and [...]
Now that I have your attention.
This rather interesting tidbit of news managed to rate mention in the bowels of that CBS news site. If you Google it you’ll find the only mentions of it is in obscure blogs (not as obscure as this one though) and if you search Google News you’ll [...]
Yeah, I know, it’s been a while but sometimes real life intervenes and some things take a hiatus. This blog has been on a hiatus but I’ll be back to my old semi-irregular posting non-schedule now that things have calmed down and life has gotten considerably saner, at least in our household if not [...]
Michael Crichton, he of Jurassic Park, has now penned a novel screed which uses fake science to “debunk” global warming and when he gets called on it he reacts much as all neoconservatives and modern day reactionaries react when faced with factual rebuttals of their absurd claims…he engages in a visceral and vicious personal attack [...]
There’s a powerfully sad and painful incongruity to the events of the last 10 days as they pertain to children and the predations of adults upon them. First we had the Platte Canyon assaults and shootings, perpetrated by a man obviously obsessed with young, thin, blonde girls. In addition he was well-armed and [...]
John Dean has a new book Conservatives without Conscience where he delves into the psychological underpinnings of modern neoconservatism, a quite distinct beast from the Goldwater conservatism of yesterday to which its adherents pay lip service.
Here’s an excerpt from an op-ed he wrote for the Boston Globe.
What I found provided a personal epiphany. Authoritarian conservatives [...]
Well now, it has been an interesting couple of days. It seems John Dean has a new book out called Conservatives without Conscience and it ought to prove interesting reading. Keith Olbermann interviewed him the other day about it in a thoughtful and fascinating interview. (video courtesy of Crooks and Liars).
The basic premise [...]
Read the entire entry on Unclaimed Territory but these two paragraphs really state the premise I’ve long advocated (and much better than I) that our current neoconservative regime and ideology is premised on the United States being fundamentally weak and vulnerable and our foundational values inadequate to the task of “defending” us in our weak [...]
Thanks to Mahablog for this link to the Newsweek online article by Christopher Dickey on nationalism and patriotism, the differences between them and what it means for this country.
Here’s the Orwell quote that she highlighted.
“All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts,†said Orwell. “Actions are held to be [...]
Read this column by Paul Craig Roberts, an arch-conservative, former Assistant Treasury Secretary under Reagan and someone with whom I seldom have agreed on much of anything. But he pulls no punches in this column and illustrates why traditional conservatism, of which he is most certainly a Dean, is finally waking up to the [...]
Just in case anyone was inclined to buy into the lame rationale that Limbaugh, Coulter, O’Reilly or Malkin use to justify their words and behavior by claiming they can’t control what people do in response to their hateful, murderous rhetoric then I suggest you read this.
“In Rwanda,” Gowing writes, “hate radio … systematically laid the [...]