My Reply to Max Boot's NYT Op-Ed
Thursday's New York Times features an Op-Ed piece by neo-con and noted "thinker" Max Boot -- a lengthy screed so filled with egregious nonsense that I could not refrain from responding to it point by...
View ArticleShut Up And Listen To Patterson Hood
Apologies for the title, but I did want to be catchy. Not to interrupt the latest struggle of "Obama and Edwards, who is Great? And who is Greatest?", but a great man just released a CD and said some...
View ArticleObama's Post-Partisan Rhetoric
This morning brings us a new Paul Krugman op-ed entitled "Deliverance or Diversion?" The article hits Obama with some standard Clinton talking points: his relative inexperience, the media's favoritism...
View ArticleThe Ferraro Defense
Geraldine Ferraro wrote an op-ed in the February 25th New York Times defending superdelegates and their right to obviate the will of the voters.Got A Problem? Call the Super.I paraphrase it below:
View ArticleThe Writers Strike Picket Line Harrasement Diary
**crushes beer can****chucks beer can at picket line**COULD SOMEBODY RECYCLE THAT? THANKS!Ahem, in case I've got anyones attention lets rant. So some people started a "writers strike" over here. I...
View ArticleOp-Ed: Will this race soon end? I say, "no, no, no."
There have been so many theories about why Clinton insists on staying in the race. Obama takes the high road, as usual, and says she's "tenacious." Others have seen a method to the madness and have...
View ArticleThe Bush Doctrine: 2003 Op-Ed
Bush's comments in front of the Knesset leave me infuriated on so many levels: 1) It was untrue; 2) it was an inappropriate time, being a 60th anniversary celebration of Israel; 3) it was the wrong...
View ArticleBILL KRISTOL Hostage Crisis Continues...
We've reached day 120 in the continuing hostage crisis...and I thought that I would update the DKos community on the status of negotiations to bring this affair to a peaceful conclusion. Perhaps you...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Op-Ed: Unapologetic and Delusional
This morning Hillary Clinton has an op-ed in the Daily News. In it she remains unapologetic about her RFK assassination comments. Instead she says that those who were offended took her "entirely out of...
View Article"Objective" journalism: post-modernism in practice?
I'm glad the NYT public editor called out the NYT op-ed editor on the Luttwak "Obama is a Muslim apostate" nonsense. Not only was the piece a transparent exercise in religious bigotry, it was wrong....
View ArticleRape as a way of waging war
Attacking the civilian population is a major objective of war. Eric Hobsbawn, the British historian, wrote in his "The Age of Extremes: The Short XXth Century" that the dawn of the XXth century came...
View ArticleThe neuroscience of false beliefs
In today's New York Times, I have an editorial on the brain science of why people form false beliefs, co-written with my co-author, Sandra Aamodt. It's timely because of the many rumors that have...
View ArticleWe Can't Afford the McCain Mistake. We're already dead broke!
Fellow Americans, here’s an honest look at our two choices for president. Tonight, McCain. Tomorrow night, Obama. Let’s pretend it’s a front porch discussion, over lemonade. Hear me out, then make...
View ArticleSen. Diane Feinstein: A Total Lack of Judgement
California Senator Diane Feinstein, supposedly a "liberal voice", proved once again yesterday that her primary allegiances lie with the rich and the powerful and not with her constituents, justice or...
View ArticleNeed help counteracting Malkin
My father sends anti-Obama emails periodically.This one was a link to a post by that great repository of all things stupid, M. Malkin. The post in entitled:Educating the ignorant Kumbaya candidate.As...
View ArticleUnpopularity Contest
Writer in process of dialing down rhetoric... and it's now set to mildly acidic instead of roaring flamethrower. I keep the flamethrower private. It's the right thing to do in polite society.Morning...
View ArticleTimes Publishes Entire Email to McCain, re: rejected op-ed
The New York Times has published the entire text of the email editor David Shipley sent to McCain's representative Michael Goldfarb. Contrary to the implications on Drudge and elsewhere, Shipley makes...
View ArticleMedia Bias: The Republican's Excuse For Sucking.
The Republicans are having a temper tantrum over the rejection of McCain's Op-Ed for the New York Times, who said there wasn't enough new.So, once again, we're treated to the Republican's typical...
View ArticleFire + Fire = More Fire
The Dhammapada teaches Conquer the angry man by love. Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth. While most of us understand the logic of...
View ArticleMoDo back on BOTTLE and off her MEDS
Jesus motherf*cking Christ MoDo is at it again with a deeply inane column in today's Sunday Times.Look, having recently turned 50 I'm mostly sympathetic to the unexpected fears and neuroses that can...
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