I’ll have to agree with NZ Bear: I’ll admit, my first reaction was a bit of a yawn myself. But then I thought about why that was, and I think it comes down to the fact that I expect Kerry to exaggerate and outright lie when it serves his political purpose of the moment. But… Continue reading this entry

Dear friends, I’ve been trying to write a long, comprehensive, singular essay on the things I’ve observed over the past week of my silence. This is all I’ve come up with: The vote rationalization parade While it may be “only natural” for bloggers to try to rationalize and share with the rest of the world… Continue reading this entry

I think the most accurate description of what I have observed lately in the political arena is the “fake but accurate” mentality that was pushed into centre stage by the Dan Rather/CBS memo scandal. More accurately, what I have seen is a rise in cognitive dissonance that leads to efforts to render irrelevant the empirical… Continue reading this entry

Okay, so there are just too many methods with which to define one’s political positions, that I need to cut through the bullshit and share with y’all how I treat four terms used quite commonly in political discourse. Liberals think that America has problems that need to be fixed. Leftists think that America is the… Continue reading this entry

So I figured out, after reading around, why I had that metallic taste in the back of my mouth after hearing Kerry drag Mary Cheney kicking and screaming into that last debate: just what kind of bigoted fools does he think evangelicals are? Not only was it sicko for him to use Mary Cheney’s sexuality… Continue reading this entry

European Union upholds decision to emasculate Germans by banning the inhumane practice of laser tag: BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — The European Union’s top court has backed a German ban on laser tag games in which players simulate killing each other in a maze. “The affront to human dignity posed by that activity justifies a restriction… Continue reading this entry