BRAVO! And the following video – titled HOW TO INTERPRET A STATE DEPARTMENT BRIEFING – is 24 karat satire. And it is a helluva lot more honest than anything that Hillary Clinton has said since law school.
Archive | January, 2011
Egyptian Uprising: An Inspirational Video and Great Photo
The above photo is from the Egyptian protests this week. Hat tip to Robert A. Wicks. (I am not sure if he made the poster. If someone knows the author of this photo/poster, please advise and will give fuller credit). THE two-minute video below was produced by Tamer Shaaban. It is gripping. (Thanks to LawHobbit […]
Brian Wilson Thumps the Toledo Blade
The great libertarian talk show host Brian Wilson has written the definitive rebuttal of the Toledo Blade’s attacks on his earlier this month. You can read his demolition of the Blade here, at the Toledo Free Press. Brian has done damn fine hell-raising ever since he arrived in at WSPD in Toledo, and this latest […]
Three Cheers for Egyptians and for Al Jazeera!
It is great to see so many people with the courage to risk all defying a corrupt, oppressive government. It is great to see the party headquarters of a corrupt regime going up in flames. And it is great to see American politicians squirming as the authoritarian tool they have bankrolled for 30 years totters […]
My 2 Cents on Obama’s State of the Union Address
The following riff is part of an American Conservative forum on Obama’s speech. ****** The State of the Union address has long since become “hip boot” time. Shortly after the speech finished, the CNN webpage showed a large photo of Obama giving the speech along with a brief outtake: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘What Comes of […]
Thoughts on Obama’s State of the Union Speech?
The American Conservative is doing a symposium on reactions to Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. I will add my two cents late tonight or early tomorrow. I’d be curious to know what others expect from the speech – or what they think of the actual spiel. This would be a terrible night to […]
My Office Motto
[from the new issue of the New Yorker] Hell, if my office looked like a mausoleum like this one does, I’d be a negative thinker, too. Geez, did this guy have a zombie design his office? There are no cigar butts, no pair of pliers to adjust the chair, no stack of empty Remington ammo […]
Jim Bovard
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Ron Redrift
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