Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Bush did another Katrina event , in Mississippi. He pointed out Tommy Longo. “He’s from Waveland.” Actually, he’s the mayor of Waveland, ...

The word being used to describe Trent Lott’s return to Republican leadership is “redemption.” John McCain, for example, said, “We all beli...

It’s the pretense of pragmatism that irritates me. The pro-war spin on the semi-declassified NIE focuses on the sentence, “Should jihadists...

The Senate agrees not to take unreported free meals from lobbyists. Trent Lott is furious: “It’s totally ludicrous that we are doing this....

On Damadola, we are now being told by Pakistani officials that there really were terrorist leaders at the house, but that their bodies were ...

Trent Lott, supporting illegal surveillance of Americans: “I don’t agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I’ll deal with al...

Trent Lott told CNN that it’s only people in the media who are asking whether rescue efforts were hampered by all the National Guard units b...

There’s a film floating around on the web of Bush during the commercial when he appeared on Letterman, wiping his glasses on some CBS employ...

In the Tuesday NYT , Paul Krugman (who gave a great talk broadcast on CSPAN, I believe viewable online at booknotes.org) writes about the wi...

Gray Davis is spending a million bucks or so to get signatures on petitions against the recall. Such petitions have no legal value, or any o...

A few days ago I wondered how Bush could go to Iraq without getting an embarrassing reception. Silly me. He flew over Iraq for 66 minutes, n...

Chester Trent Lott in an AP interview: “A lot of people in Washington have been trying to nail me for a long time. When you're from Miss...

There’s a piece in the NY Times on how subtly Bush managed the removal of Trent Lott, without leaving any fingerprints. Unless you count tha...

www.re-date.com will tell you how many seconds, minutes, etc you’ve been alive, how many people have born and died in that period, how far ...

I had the best sort of jury duty today, the type where you don’t have to show up (and, indeed, drive 18 miles through the rain to do so). An...

I watched Trent Lott make his 4th “apology” on C-SPAN today. And why not a 4th? If Arnie can make another Terminator movie, Mel another Ma...

The official, official mind you, Mississippi Democratic Party sample ballot for 1948. It says that a vote for Truman is a vote to ban lynch...

Coincidentally, the US has released its new military strategy, which involves nuking Iraq if it uses chemical or biological weapons. Join...

A couple of quotes about a moron Republican president: he devotes his public life to translating a complicated world of public affairs he ba...

The river of insane “reality” shows continues. Starting next week, a show in which ex-minor celebrities go on blind dates. First up: the g...