Posts Tagged “politics”

Except I Like Sock Puppets

by JS on February 24, 2006

I haven’t posted anything of a political nature lately, mostly because I’m past exasperated and I don’t enjoy high blood pressure. But this line from Crooked Timber is too good not to pass along: “The president is a sock-puppet moron” (…)

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Can We See A Show of Hands?

by mrs 12frogs on September 6, 2005

(Mrs. 12frogs guest post) “I think most Americans dismiss that and know there’s just no basis for making such suggestions,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan responding to the suggestion that the poor, and particularly blacks, had been abandoned –from cnn.com (…)

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The Mind Doesn’t So Much Boggle as Shut Down

by JS on September 2, 2005

A country with the most powerful military on the planet can’t adequately secure one major city in the wake of a natural disaster. A country where hundreds of merchants provide overnight shipping and thousands of convenience stores sell dozens of (…)

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