Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

The NYT has an article on how “Newt Gingrich has set his sights not on the presidency, but on the restoration of God to a central place in ...

Unfortunate metaphor of the week, from the director of HIV/AIDS for the World Health Organization, Dr. Kevin De Cock (whose name is also un...

In his weekly radio address , Bush claimed that the economy was in great shape. For example, retail sales were up in November! Just like e...

It’s been confirmed by the medical examiner that Florida botched an execution this week, essentially having to execute the guy twice. The ...

Condi Rice tells the WaPo that there is no need to talk to Iran and Syria about helping stabilize Iraq: “If they have an interest in a stab...

The Israelis held up Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyev (Hamas) for several hours at the Egypt-Palestine border, ostensibly because h...

If circumcision cuts the risk of HIV infection in half, wouldn’t castration be just that much more effective? Today Bush met with Benin’s p...

Bush met today with military people about Iraq (I believe this was his last such meeting, and I would bet that Cheney made sure he heard fro...

The Bush admin is fighting the court decision that it must make different denominations of paper money detectable by feel, saying that blin...

Today George Bush met Vice President, um, Thingamabob of Iraq: “It’s been my honor to meet with the Vice President of Iraq again. I had the...

Rumsfeld was interviewed by Sean Hannity, the only, um, journalist allowed to accompany him on his surprise visit to Iraq. He explained th...

Texas state legislator Edmund Kuempel is sponsoring a bill to let blind people hunt. Said Huempel, “This opens up the fun of hunting to ad...

Bush spent some of the morning being briefed by the State Department about Iraq for a full 90 minutes, which as we know is his limit. Then ...

I say Pinochet’s faking it again. Put him on trial anyway. Sort of a Peter-Sellers-by-way-of-Mussolini look Rumsfeld did not meet with any ...

Karzai has fired the governor of Helmand province, and while there’s nothing at all in the American papers, the British ones are abuzz, sinc...

Well, the transcript of Rummy’s last “town hall” meeting is out now, although I stand by yesterday’s preliminary reaction: “oh just fuck of...

If I had to watch all the Bush press conferences I blog about, I’d have drowned in my own stomach acids long ago. But if you think you can’...

The editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia (which started publishing earlier this year) is on trial for publishing pictures of women in unde...

In a press conference with Tony Blair, held in front of a humongous presidential seal, Bush again sort of praised the Iraq Study Group: “I ...

William Caldwell IV, Military Moron, has an op-ed in the WaPo , in which he says, “I don’t see a civil war in Iraq. I don’t see a constituen...