Uneasy Rhetoric

Paul Waldman has a scathing article in the American Prospect on just what we will be missing in the absence of a GWBush administration. In amongst diamonds like “the rotating cast of butchers” and the “Bush Doctrine of preemptive war” is this little gem: Goodbye to the accusation that if you disagree with what the [...]

Happy Veterans Day, (or Remembrance Day, or Armistice Day) everyone.  May we one day celebrate this day as only a memory, a lesson learned, a chapter in our human history closed but never forgotten. And I can’t help but wonder, no Willie McBride, Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you [...]

I heard the band Hanggai on National Public Radio this morning and the little snippets were enough to pique my interest.  I just bought the album and I’m completely blown away. There’s something vaguely fanboy about buying new music because I heard it on NPR. In part, this is because I know too many people [...]

I like Mulvaney’s. I’ve been twice now and they haven’t let me down. This time, they even added a little something extra to our dessert.  When I called to make reservations, they asked if this was a special occassion and I said it was for our anniversary (which was the 30th, but Saturday was more [...]

Now this is spin: in a Reuters article titled “Rare Flash of Anger from Obama on Halloween Night,” I found this quote: The fact that Obama took time out for Halloween showed a candidate feeling confident about his chances on Tuesday, with polls showing him leading Republican nominee John McCain. Did the writer stop to [...]