Bite Me, New York Times.

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Tuesday January 01, 2008 · 7:45 PM PST

2008/01/01 · 19:45

(cross-posted at Last Left Turn before Hooterville)

On the last day of 2007, the New York Times published an editorial, titled "Looking at America," bemoaning what the nation has come to. It starts out like this:

"There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes of their sickening behavior. It was impossible to see the founding principles of the greatest democracy in the contempt these men and their bosses showed for the Constitution, the rule of law and human decency."

It's a great editorial, and I agree with pretty much every word in it.

So why am I so pissed off?

QueenIdella

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Saturday December 29, 2007 · 11:08 AM PST

2007/12/29 · 11:08

(originally posted at Last Left Turn Before Hooterville)

I try not to comment on things that my betters (Jane Hamsher, Glenn Greenwald) have already cleaned up on, but the discussions on today's Peggy Noonan WSJ opinion column led me to one of the points I talk about in The Price of Right - the demonization of intelligence, which may be one of the most dangerous conservative myths out there; certainly one that has wreaked havoc upon the running of our government. Usually, too, I tend to stay away from people like Miss Peggy because it just riles me up unnecessarily. Why invite the aggravation? Two sentences in and I'm spluttering.

QueenIdella

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Monday October 09, 2006 · 8:01 PM PDT

2006/10/09 · 20:01

I am sick, sick, sick to death of being treated like the enemy by the person who is supposed to be my president.

For that matter, I don't like that word 'enemy', period. It's too easy to go from 'the person or country we're currently fighting against' to the 'personification of evil', thereby removing all traces of humanity from said 'enemy' and transforming them into faceless monsters to be eliminated at any cost without guilt. And when you indiscriminately use the word 'war' for anything you oppose, the corollary to that is there has to be an 'enemy' to fight and hate.

Of course, when you're running for office, you're supposed to be partisan. Everyone expects that. But once you've 'assumed' the Presidency, you are in charge of the entire country, not just Republicans. You're supposed to make decisions that are in the best interests of everyone, Democrats as well as Republicans.

But the Resident, from the moment he seized office, has treated Democrats the same way he treats 'the terrorists' (another convenient buzz-word). He talks about us as enemies to be vanquished and silenced. And we're paying for him to do so. Read More

Hooterville For Habitat - Katrina Donations

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Monday August 14, 2006 · 12:49 PM PDT

2006/08/14 · 12:49

Habitat For Humanity has a program called Operation Home Delivery, where people can organize donation teams. I've put one together for my blog Last Left Turn Before Hooterville. I don't usually blogwhore, but I sure would love to let the victims of Katrina know they haven't been forgotten. Read More

Al-Queenie or...Al-Qaeda?

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Wednesday May 17, 2006 · 7:25 PM PDT

2006/05/17 · 19:25

President Bush, you got me fair and square.

For a long time, I had you all fooled. Read More

Twas the Night Before Fitzmas

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Friday April 28, 2006 · 10:23 PM PDT

2006/04/28 · 22:23

Here is a poem I wrote in honor of my new favorite holiday:

'Twas the Night Before Fitzmas... Read More

Is The Wave Of The Future An Old Hand From The Past? Neil Young Shows How It's Done

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Saturday April 22, 2006 · 4:24 PM PDT

2006/04/22 · 16:24

(cross-posted at Last Left Turn Before Hooterville)

Neil Young is an artist who has always gone his own way. He filters his life journey through his music, and he constantly challenges the prevailing paradigm, whether it be political, cultural, or personal. For this he is both revered and reviled. His life and his art are one and the same in a way that very few artists can claim.

With his newest record, "Living With War", Neil Young shows the kids how it's done. Read More

Illegal Immigration. You Know You Want It.

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Wednesday April 12, 2006 · 10:38 AM PDT

2006/04/12 · 10:38

You want it. You know you want it. You want it bad.

You know what I'm talking about.

That's right. I'm talking about illegal immigration.

Not even immigration in general, but illegal immigration. Read More

Goodbye, Tommi?

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Monday January 16, 2006 · 10:09 PM PST

2006/01/16 · 22:09

(cross-posted at I Love Tom DeLay and Blognonymous)

I begged him not to go.

"Darling," I cried, "If you only knew how much I need you! "

"I know, my sweet li'l ol' butterbean," he replied gently, brushing a stray blob of grease (or was it a tear?) from the corner of my quivering lower lip.

We met for lunch - perhaps for the last time? - at Hogswallow's Hot Links, an out-of-the-way bar and barbecue joint tucked in between a pawn shop and a check-cashing store down by the railroad tracks. It was dilapidated and foul-smelling, and the food was indifferent at best, but I always thought of it as 'our place'. How many lunch hours had we spent here together, gnawing on gristly porkchops that resembled nothing so much as shoe leather, gazing into each others' eyes and talking about our hopes and dreams? And now my world was falling apart. The man I loved - no, worshiped - was telling me that it was over; that the good times we had shared for so many years were about to come to an end.
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Dichotomy - Government Secrecy, Public Intrusion

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Friday January 06, 2006 · 5:41 PM PST

2006/01/06 · 17:41

Has anyone else noticed that the most secretive and unaccountable Administration in history has no problem with completely dismantling the right to privacy for the rest of us? Read More

Liberal or Conservative? My Theory (so far)

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Sunday July 24, 2005 · 10:50 AM PDT

2005/07/24 · 10:50

I am really, really trying to figure out why people divide along right/left lines. What follows is an idea of mine (still taking shape)...

I think it may be linked, in a way, to ADD. There is a theory of Thom Hartmann's (which makes sense to me, having been diagnosed with ADD at 40) that people with so-called ADD are hard-wired with 'hunter' characteristics, meaning they are flexible and easily distracted, so that if an animal comes by, they can drop everything and chase it. They constantly scan their environment and are always active, alert and ready with a pump of adrenaline so that they can go after their prey (read:hyperactive). They have to be risk-takers to catch animals. They are loners, adventurous and easily bored. The other, non-ADD types are hardwired with 'farmer' characteristics, which requires a completely different type of mentality. A farmer has to be always conscious of time, schedule and routine; if they are not aware of the proper times for planting, for instance, their crops will not grow and therefore they will not survive. Read More

I Hate Our Freedom

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Monday July 11, 2005 · 11:20 AM PDT

2005/07/11 · 11:20

That's right - I said it. I hate our freedom.

Every time I hear that word 'freedom', it is sure to be followed by something reprehensible. Just like the word 'free', which, whenever you hear it or see it on an advertisement, definitely means 'you're going to pay for something'. In Bush-speak, it takes on a meaning completely opposite from what it used to be. Double-plus ungood. I've been trying to think of what 'freedoms' we have these days, and this is what I've come up with: Read More

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Bite Me, New York Times.

Peggy Noonan - Reasonable? Doubt.

Who's The Enemy?

Hooterville For Habitat - Katrina Donations

Al-Queenie or...Al-Qaeda?

Twas the Night Before Fitzmas

Is The Wave Of The Future An Old Hand From The Past? Neil Young Shows How It's Done

Illegal Immigration. You Know You Want It.

Goodbye, Tommi?

Dichotomy - Government Secrecy, Public Intrusion

Liberal or Conservative? My Theory (so far)

I Hate Our Freedom