Category: Political Rants

“Maimed in Iraq, then mistreated, neglected, and hidden in America.” In an article in Intervention Magazine, Frederic Sweet describes the medical treatment (or lack thereof) received by US soldiers wounded in Iraq. One officer said they “were being treated like dogs.” The Bush administration continues to ignore soldiers killed or wounded in their unnecessary, illegal… Continue reading Treated like Dogs

Maybe campus apathy isn’t as bad as I thought. The Kentucky Kernel (UK’s campus newspaper) reports that the UK Student Government passed a resolution against the Patriot Act. The resolution was controversial, passing by one vote after heated discussion and a deadlock on the first vote. In an unfortunate sign that some people still don’t… Continue reading Patriotic Students

Twenty years after George Orwell’s prophetic 1984, we’re seeing assaults on privacy approaching, or even exceeding, those in his work of fiction. I’m sure this isn’t news to anybody with an IQ greater than Dubya’s, but a couple of recent news items brought it to the front of my mind. In an incident described as… Continue reading 1984 Plus Twenty

The media are trying hard to avoid mentioning it, but my buddy Dennis had a good weekend, with third place finishes in Washington and Maine, ahead of Clark and Edwards, who get far more press attention. Maine was the first state where he broke into double-digit percentage, with 15%. Optimistic supporters are pointing to the… Continue reading Run, Dennis, Run!

Here’s an interesting survey that a friend sent me. Based on your responses to questions about issues, it rates how the presidential candidates meet your preferences. The results could be surprising. It was no surprise to me that, based on my responses, Kucinich was on top with 100% and Bush was on the bottom with… Continue reading Rate the Candidates

Last week I posted the “quote of the month”. But, like everything else here, I suppose regularity is not a strong point. It’s tough to know when I might stumble across something worth mentioning. I ran into a couple of items recently that I thought were worth noting, even though it hasn’t been a month… Continue reading More Quotes

From a Computerworld article: State Agency Cancels Controversial Outsourcing Deal An Indiana employment agency has canceled a controversial IT deal that would have brought in up to 65 Indian contract workers to develop a new unemployment claims processing system. You gotta wonder why nobody wondered what was wrong with that picture before it ever got… Continue reading Fighting Unemployment

Thanks to Tara for passing along a letter she recently spotted in the Washington Post indicating that, without even realizing it, I’ve joined the latest trend sweeping the Beltway. In the letter, Michele Dyson says “the surprise gold-medal winner, the most talked-about topic in the circles in which I travel, has been the comic strip… Continue reading Wow! I’m finally trendy!

In a recent forum, my favorite presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich, jokingly discussed his marital status (or lack thereof) and his Fantasy First Lady: “a dynamic, out-spoken woman who was fearless in her desire for peace in the world and for universal single-payer health care and a full employment economy.” In an attempt to prevent the… Continue reading Perfect Match?

Extraordinary rendition … can you guess what it is? It’s the CIA’s term for seizing a citizen of another country (e.g. Canada) as he is just passing through a US airport en route to his home, and deporting him to a country where he can be tortured (e.g. Syria, and aren’t they our enemy right… Continue reading Extraordinary Rendition