This is not America
Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 04:01:57 PM PDT
My friends keep telling the same joke, and they don't know each other. I've told the joke, and nobody asks me what I mean.
The joke goes like this: you don't know who's listening.
Even just talking to people about mundane things, there are little hints that we know someone might be listening to what we say. The next part of the joke is some expression of please don't take me to a holding cell, mister. These are our jokes.
Rove, Bolton, DSM all one story
Tue Jul 12, 2005 at 11:48:31 AM PDT
"The facts were being fixed around the policy."
That's what the Downing Street Memo said, and now we have the hard data to show how this was done. Don't let the administration off the hook by viewing Rove/Plame, Bolton and the DSM as separate. They are all of a piece, all parts of the same story.
Putting the "flypaper theory" of Iraq to rest (who's stuck?)
Thu Jun 30, 2005 at 11:39:26 AM PDT
The other night, President Bush took another scattershot approach to justifying his war in Iraq, tossing out this theory and that in the hope that something would stick. One of those was the so-called "flypaper theory." You can recognize it whenever you hear something along the lines of, "we're fighting the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here."
The idea is that by striking in the Middle East we induce the terrorists to engage our troops there, and thus can kill them all before they launch another attack in the United States. There are several reasons to think this is inane, but I still think the response from the left has missed a salient point: if this theory is true, then Afghanistan should have served just as well as Iraq, if not better.
