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Incompetent Sex Trumps Incompetent Governance

Randy Randy is gone, an instant casualty of the Religious Right’s intolerance of anything to do with sex except outlawing it.

Bush's Finger in Putin’s Eye

As if American foreign policy wasn’t already at its lowest point in half a century, President Bush has chosen this particular moment to stick a finger in the eye of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Not satisfied with the failed testing of America’s missile shield on our own soil, we have elected to install it on the soil of our European NATO allies.

Whoever Came Up With These Names?

I don’t know about you, but I am frustrated by things being called what is popular or agreeable or what sells, rather than what they are.

The French Get Down to Electing

Ah, France. Home to fine wines, great food, occasional intolerance of nations more powerful than themselves, beautiful countryside, an ocean on one side, a sea on the other. Inventor of the arched eyebrow, Edith Piaf, the aqualung and bicycle. We may forgive them the hot air balloon and French politics.

They know how to run elections.

MSNBC—Descending Into Hell and Dragging Us Along

Brian Williams is the news anchor and (apparently) news editor over at MSNBC. For four days I was unable to bring up Countdown, Tucker, Scarborough Country or Hardball. That portion of the site was subsumed with the Korean maniac who murdered 32 students at Virginia Tech.

Dancing on the Head of a Pin

Earlier in the week, Blackberry was down for the better part of a day and it was national news. The outage was said to affect over 80% of large companies in the U.S. Eight million subscribers had to actually talk to someone during the outage. It is reported, but not substantiated, that several people actually paid attention during company staff meetings.

Wall Street Afraid of the Wrong Ghost

Wall Street still doesn't seem to get it. The world beyond New York has been moving in directions beyond the street's recent notice. Have patience with them, it's tough to keep your focus in a bubble.

Beginning of the End--Richard Nixon Redux

It’s not always the same things that trip up presidencies, but it’s always the same attitude.

As We (Too Many of Us) Get Poorer

As we get poorer, the best we seem able to do is take a spiritual attitude toward the increasing numbers of Americans living at or near the poverty level. Religion has always espoused the argument that the disadvantaged should be meek, that their reward lies in the hereafter. That’s an argument of the privileged, of course and you don’t see the poor in the front pew at any church I ever attended.

The Great American Don Imus Fraud

A so-called ‘shock jock’ in the traditions of Redd Foxx and Lenny Bruce, although Don Imus has been at it for so long as to virtually define the genre.