It’s beginning to look a lot like pre-school…

I know that the use of language in today’s mass media is geared toward a fifth-grade (or thereabouts) comprehension level. Surely, though, the folks we elect to serve in the highest offices should be at least a little smarter than a fifth grader. Perhaps we should have Jeff Foxworthy come and test the entire lot [...]

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9 for ‘09: 9 ways in which 2009 will manage not to suck

This is the start of a new temporary (maybe 9 days) feature wherein I make lists of stuff. So yeah. Reasons 2009 won’t suck.
1. New albums from Guster and Carbon Leaf
They’re not the only ones, of course, but two perennial favorites who will be releasing new material for the first time since 2006. Perhaps this [...]

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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck…

… it’s probably just another part of the giant government conspiracy.
I was reminded this morning of the theory that the Apollo moon landings were faked. My inner conspiracy theorist loves this one, because there’s so much you can do with it.
See, in the early 1960s, the Western World was stunned when Yuri Gagarin successfully went [...]

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To impeach, or not to impeach?

On the first anniversary of the American incursion into Vietnam, a handful of college professors and radical beatniks started to make a little noise, but were dismissed as nuts.
At two years a few more had joined the movement, largely still members of the same “nut” crowd.
At three years, with the introduction of the hippies into [...]

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Libby Sentence Commuted

WASHINGTON – In a controversial but not entirely unexpected decision, President Bush decided today that his good buddy and former vice-presidential chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby didn’t need to serve jail time after all. ***
Sources close to the Bush camp say that the president was “extremely concerned” at the idea of Mr. Libby [...]

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Homo electus

Since I’m sure you’ve all been breathlessly awaiting my views on things…
When I first looked at my screen this morning, my thought was that Kerry still had a chance at the presidency. As I checked the state-by-state numbers, I instead grew increasingly convinced that we had another Bush presidency to look forward to.
Hearing [...]

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An open letter to John Kerry

Dear Senator,
During the course of your campaign for the presidency I have come to believe that you are in fact what you purport to be: the right man to lead America through the next four years. Despite the mud-slinging and smoke-blowing of Republicans and Democrats alike, as well as several supposedly independent groups, I believe [...]

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