Archive for June, 2006
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
According to Harper's Index, the 5% of the world that is the USA now spends as much on "defense" as the entire rest of the world put together. And at $290 billion and climbing, we've now spent a full $1000 per American on the Iraq war alone.
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
As followup to the video of Congressman Westmorland ("The 10 Commandments"), I thought I might post this blurb I posted elsewhere a while back:
As our God-luvin' Justice Scalia pointed out recently, "probably 90 percent of the American people believe in the Ten Commandments and 85 percent couldn’t tell you ...
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Fathers' Day has completely changed for me on both ends over the last decade. My own dad died in 1998 (and my wife's father died in 1999), so there's no dads to do anything about in our house.
Except, of course, me. So now, oddly enough, I'm THE dad. ...
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
If you haven't seen Stephen Colbert's interview of Congressman Lynn Westmoreland, you should. It's truly astonishing. Take the 5 minutes and watch.
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
I can't say I'm surprised that Michael Newdow has lost the current round in his suit to get "In Gawd we trust" taken off of U.S. currency (Atheist Loses 'In God We Trust' Suit). But we still love him for trying; and the next stop for the case is ...
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Hands down the best review I've read of Ann Coulter's new screed Godless is by the always good Betty ("America's Best Christian") Bowers. Read it yourself (Mrs. Betty Bowers Reviews Ann Coulter -- And Her Book, Too); but I can't resist this quote, that summarizes perfectly my own view ...
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Friday, June 9th, 2006
Since I started listening to podcasts, I've been a fan of Benjamen Walker's Theory Of Everything. He's just started a new series, "Adventures in Surveillance" this week, and the first episode, "Holler Back" is almost painfully good.
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
As the pathetic pandering ass-wipe 'Publicans the the US Senate prepare to consider a national ban on miscegenation -- er, I mean, gay marriage (Senate to Tackle Gay Marriage Ban), Ted Kennedy cuts through the bullshit and the "protection of marriage" lies to the heart of the matter: "A ...
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