The ad-sponsored memorial orgy reached its annual frothy peak today. One and all were invited to relive our most celebrated national tragedy, complete with theme music and flying logos. Slow-panning retrospectives (somber horns and violins accompany) lovingly presented every detail before cutting to the advertisement chaser: life insurance, banking, and indigestion. Then we were treated [...]
By embracing a strategy of isolation and sanctions (foreign policy = starvation?), the far-right militants of the U.S. and Israel are once again building walls where words would be more appropriate. Guess we learned a lesson from our stunning victory over Cuba. Meantime–and here’s the really interesting part–Khaled Meshal, head of the political bureau of [...]
On Sunday the U.S. military released a quote attributed to an “unidentified” Iraqi: “The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists,” said one [...]
Arguing that Democratic filibusters are “unprecedented,” Senate Republicans have been attacking their practice in order to clear the path for President Bush’s ultra-conservative judicial nominees. It should be noted that Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch is using the word “unprecedented” in an entirely new way–one curiously free of historic fact. Otherwise he might have to [...]