In his WorldNetDaily column, “A national emergency,” populist firebrand Pat Buchanan calls for the impeachment of President Bush, citing the President’s failure to protect the country from illegal immigration as reason enough to begin proceedings against him: Twice, George Bush has taken an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Article IV, Section 4 of that Constitution reads, “The United States shall guarantee to every
August 31, 2005
And then there’s Maude
Funny, but this same thing happened to me once—only the gray-haired “gentleman” in question was Bea Arthur, and instead of smiling and waving and saying “Thank you,” the old bitch dropped a handful of change out of the window, then peeled off with such force that the sideview mirror from her Escalade nearly ripped the squeegee right out of my hand. If there’s such a thing as cosmic justice, I
In which I hold a brief and pointed political conversation with the ragged hole in the left knee of my Quicksilver blue jeans (follow-up)
Me: “…The way you just sit there all smug and critical. Tell me, what would you do to fight terrorism? Throw pies?” Hole: Me: “Fucking hole.”
Mother Nature as Bush Proxy? Hey, why not. He was, after all, on vacation, and so couldn’t really disperse his EVIL easily… (UPDATED)
With bodies still floating dead in the water, attempts to affix political blame for a natural disaster continue apace in the “progressive” world of “reality-based” politics, a land where tyrants are good, people who fight them are bad, and religion is only worthwhile when it can be used to bludgeon the religious. Firstly, and while the hurricane was ongoing, TalkLeft (along with the Swing State Project), attempted to blame Bush
“Heed My Cleverness!”—a short essay by Rick Sterling
UC Berkeley engineer and Bay Area activist Rick Sterling saw fit to drop one of his op-eds into my comments, presumably because—as a self-styled “activist”—he’s deluded himself into thinking his sentiments are so damn important that they simply must be shoehorned into the most inappropriate of venues. Why, it’s an instance of heroic cyber confrontation, is what it is!— it’s SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER! So here it is, in all
Elegy
Sobek Pundit posts some pictures of New Orleans from better days. It’s a tribute to a city he loves—one he lived in up until 3 months ago—and offers a bit of a counter-balance to all the destruction we’re seeing now. Check it out. I never made it to New Orleans myself, though I always meant to (and almost did once, for a flag football tournament while in college; but I
