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Why does Michael Vick have to go through a series of mea culpas and tearful apologies (not to mention a prison sentence) for torturing dogs, and Dick Cheney does not even face an investigation for torturing people?
Archive for August, 2009
August 14th, 2009
August 14th, 2009
Category: Conservatism
Five years ago, before the current Julia Child mania, I wrote the following reflections on the woman on another blog. I still think there’s a lot to this, so here it is, followed by the original link: I just got finished watching a program on Julia Child on PBS. Made me think (as most things [...]
August 14th, 2009
Category: Health Care
Social Security and Medicare are popular. Both were opposed as “socialism.” Let’s use that fact in today’s debate.
August 13th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
I’m at Netroots Nation (formerly Yearly Kos). Having attended California Democratic Party conventions, I find NN strikingly lower on b.s. and rah-rah and pitched at a much higher intellectual level. I’ve never been to CPAC, so I can’t do that comparison, but there’s remarkably little “red meat.” Absoutely nothing resembling a Coulter or a Limbaugh. [...]
August 12th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
USAir – known to passengers as Useless Air, is actually an acronym: the full name is Unfortunately, Still Allegheny In Reality.