Category: Political Rants

A local peace and justice activist passed along a couple of sadly humorous items which I thought were worth noting here because, although not original, they seem to be fairly obscure and well worth reading. I managed to find both of them on the web, so I’ll just provide links. The first, by an unknown… Continue reading Now I understand … NOT

Charlie Daniels has blatantly trashed everything this country stands for. He might as well go ahead and burn the flag; he has effectively pissed on the Constitution. He has disrepected and dishonored the American principles that his countrymen have fought and died for, and the flag that stands for those principles. People have died to… Continue reading Charlie Daniels is an unpatriotic asshole!

OK, I’ve been one-upped. I was so proud of my Lick Bush 04 bumper sticker. This morning on my way to work, I pulled up behind someone who topped me. His license plate said FPOTUS. I briefly considered the possibility that it meant something other than the obvious (at least, obvious to me), especially considering… Continue reading License Plate Laughs

In Friday’s Dixie Chicks post, I speculated that an anti-war song performed by a popular artist wouldn’t get much air time. It looks like that theory may be put to the test with John Mellencamp’s new song, To Washington.

On the eve of our next wave of atrocities against Iraq, Gretchen sent me a link to letters from Saddam Hussein. The site is very slow (and may well get slower or shut down completely), and I haven’t had time to read enough of it to make any profound comments, but I thought it was… Continue reading Saddam Says

I have to applaud the Dixie Chicks. While I’m ambivalent about their music, I admire the courage they have shown in recent public statements about the United States’ mad rush towards war in Iraq. While I realize that it’s common for many celebrities to polish their images by giving lip service to some noble cause,… Continue reading You Go, Girls!

A Wired article alerted me to Christopher Allbritton’s blog about the impending US atrocities against Iraq, and his plans to provide independent coverage of the war. In spite of my pessimistic view that blogs like this are just preaching to the choir and not convincing anybody who isn’t already convinced, I think this is an… Continue reading War Blogging

I’m making a resolution to start reading The Onion more frequently. Julia steered me to this article. I started reading it hastily, without paying attention to the attached note, and at first thought it was an excellent parody of the past two years. Then I realized that it was actually written just before Dumbya’s inauguration,… Continue reading This is scary

some humor by Paul Tremblay (I don’t know who he is, but he’s funny) A top Bush aid has acknowledged that Bush believes “the world is isolating itself.”

A recent NY Times editorial re-visits the old debate about states collecting sales taxes on “online retail transactions”. Every time I hear about taxing “Internet sales”, I wonder why they seem to fixate on the Internet as opposed to any other form of “remote shopping”. It’s true that the internet has driven an increase in… Continue reading Taxing E-Commerce